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�Drozak: Pass Passenger Ship Convention Bill
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—
Appearing before the U.S. Senate
Finance Committee's Taxation panel
early this month, SIU President
Frank Drozak strongly urged the
passage by the subcommittee of a
bill which would permit a tax
deduction for convention expenses
on U.S.-flag passenger ships sailing
between American ports of call.
If passed, the legislation would
give-the upcoming American pas
senger liner business a boost and
provide more jobs for Seafarers. A
similar bill is awaiting passage in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
It was introduced there by Rep.
Frank Guarini (D-N.J.) and in the
Senate by Sens. Spark Matsunaga
and Daniel Ihouye (D-Hawaii).
Drozak pointed out to the taxation
unit's chairman, Sen. Bob Pack.wood (R-Ore.) and subcommittee
member. Sen. Phil Roth (R-Del.)
that the U.S. Treasury Department's
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for
the last two years had denied tax
breaks for conventions on U.S.
passenger ships but allowed them
for conventions in hotels in the
United States, Canada, Mexico and
Jamaica. He termed the ruling an
'inequity" and "unjust" by notletting the U.S. passenger ships to
compete "fairly" for the convention
business.
"Passage of the bill," the SIU
chieftain added, "would create a
SIU President Frank Drozak, left, and Peter Luciano, executive director
of the Transportation institute urged passage of the Shipboard Con
vention bili.
positive financial reason for more ability to attract convention busiAmerican ships to operate in these ness," he emphasized.
trades."
Drozak further noted that the
Drozak cited to the subcommittee further growth of the U.S. passenger
the revival last year of the SIUcrewed SS Oceanic Independence
and SS Constitution (HawaiianAmerican Line) giving jobs to 900
Seafarers and the SlUtmanned pas
Gerry Brown, SIU Port Agent for
senger steamboats De/to gween and
New Orleans, sustained serious
Mississippi Queen which gave jobs
injuries in a car accident earlier this
to 300.
month. Thanks to prompt medical
"... The future success of these
treatment and a tough fighting spirit,
vessels depends in part on their he is expected to make a complete
recovery
Doctors expect Brown to be out
of commission for at least several
more months. He will be sorely
missed by members and co-workers
Time is running out with a deadline of Dec. 31,1982 coming up
alike. Since joining the SIU in 1966,
fast for seamen 65 and over who want to sign up now for Part B of
Gerry Brown has been one of the
union's most hard-wofking and
the Medicare Program without being penalized.
If the seamen who are eligible for the program don't enroll by
dedicated officials. He took over
Dec. 31, they will get it in the neck with a 10 percent penalty for
the New Orleans office upon the
retirement of then Vice-President
each year they fail to apply.
This deadline all came about when federal funding was cut off
Lindsay Williams, one of the founfor the USPHS Hospitals in the 1981 Reconciliation Act.
Until last year, merchant seamen who became eligible for Medicare
by reason of age, disability or kidney failure, could still receive
their health care through U.S. Public Health service hospitals.
In March 1981 the department announced that effective the fol
lowing October PHS hospitals would be transferred to communities
and subsequently most Medicare-eligible seamen signed up for Part
B, which requires the beneficiary to pay a monthly premium as well
as a premium surcharge for (^te enrollment.
Under the new law, merchant seamen may now enroll in Part B
without having to pay a surcharge if they do so by Dec. 31. The
surcharge will be imposed on enrollments after Dec. 31.
The new law also provides that seamen may pick Part A hospital
insurance during the same period according to regular Social Security
provisions.
In addition, merchant seamen who enrolled in Medicare after
March 1981 at a higher premium rate can, under the new law, have
their premium rolled back to the standard rate.
Full details on the provision of the new law are available to
merchant seamen from local Social Security offices.
Gerry Brown
Deadline Is Dec. 31 For Seamen
To Enroll In Medicare B Plan
ship fleet would add to the U.S.
Navy's defense capabilities in time
of a national emergency. He said
the use by the British of the active
passenger liners Queen Elizabeth 2,
the Canberra and the Uganda as
troop and hospital ships aided them
in the war with Argentina over the
Falkland Islands.
Testifying before the Senate Tax
ation Subcommittee before SIU
President Drozak was William S.
McKee, tax counsel for the Treasury
Department, who defended the^lR.S
ruling saying holding a convention
on a passenger ship was "frivolous"
and "not reasonable," "not an
appropriate place," and "not ra
tional."
Other testifying in support of the
bill were Director Peter Luciano of
the Transportation Institute,
Chairman Conrad H.C. Everhard
of the Hawaiian-American Line,
Chairman Stanley S. Thune of the
Delta Queen Steamboat Co. and VP
Arthur Kane of the Norwegian Car
ibbean Line.
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Gerry Brown Is Recovering
After Serious Auto Accident
ders of the Seafarers International
Union.
Gerry takes an active interest in
the lives of the men and women he
represents. He has worked diligently
on both a local and a national level
for the maritime industry.
He has served on the President's
Offshore Council and has been a
prominent member of the Wash
ington Work Group. He is the Pres
ident of the New Orleans Maritime
Port Council of the Maritime Trades
Department.
Before his assignment to New
Orleans, Gerry has worked in the
ports of Mobile, Wilimington,
Seattle, New York and Piney Point.
Gerry Brown has maintained the
special pride that Seafarers feel for
their home port of New Orleans.
He has developed strong ties to the
political establishment of Louisiana.
He has been a close political ally
of Congresswoman Lindy Boggs
who introduced the Competitive
Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of
1982,
Brown's success in developing a
strong grass roots political machine
for the SIU can be seen by the fact
that Representative Bob Livingstone
(R-La.) was the first person to
donate blood to help Gerry's
recovery. Brown, plucky as ever,
and a lifelong Democrat to boot,
told the doctors with half a smile,
"That's all I need now, some good
Republican blood."
December 1982 / LOG 3
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�The New U.S. House of Representatives
Here is the Uhe-up following the 1982
elections.
The U.S. House of Representatives has
435 members. The new 98th Congress
will have 269 Democrats and 166
Republicans.
In the following listing, the number in
front of the Congressman's name indi
cates the state congressional district; (D)
means Democrat; (R) Republican; and
(AL) means At Large.
The asterisk (*) means that the Con
gressman is a first-tripper (newlyelected).
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ALABAMA
Jkk Edwards (R)
William L. Dickinson (R)
Bill Nichols (D)
Tom Bevill (D)
Ronnie G. Rippo (D)
Ben Erdreich (D)*
Richard C. Shelby (D) '
ALASKA
AL Don Young (R)
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ARIZONA
John McCain (R)*
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Morris K. Udall (D)
Bob Stump (R)
Eldon D. Rudd (R)
James E McNulty Jr. (D)*
ARKANSAS
Bill Alexander (D)
Ed Bethune (R)
John R Hammerschmidt (R)
Beryl E Anthony Jr. (D)
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California
1. Douglas H. Bosco(D)* '
2. Eugene Chappie (R)
3. Robert T. Matsui (D)
4. Vic Eazio (D)
5. Phillip Burton (D)
6. Barbara Boxer (D)*
7. George Miller (D)
8. Ronald V. Dellums (D)
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. 9. Fortney H. Stark (D)
10. Don Edwards (D)
11. Thomas P. Lantos (D)
12.- Ed Zschau (R)*
13; Norman Y. Mineta (D)
14. Norman D. Shumway (R)
15. Tony L. Coelho (D)
16. Leon E. Panetta (D)
17. Charles Pashayan Jr. (R)
18. Richard Lehman (D)*
19. Robert J. Lagomarsino (R)
20. William M. Thomas (R)
21. Bobbi Eiedler (R)
22. Carlos J. Moorhead (R)
23. Anthony C. Beilenson (D)
24. Henry A. Waxman (D)
25. Edward R. Roybal (D)
26. Howard Berman (D)*
27. Mel Levine (D)*
28. Julian C. Dixoii (D)
29. Augustus E Hawkins (D)
30. Matthew G. Martinez (D)
31. Mervyn M. Dymally (D)
32. Glenn M. Anderson (D)
33. David Dreier (R)
34. Esteban Torres (D)*
35. Jerry Lewis (R) '
3(5. George E. Brown Jr. (Dj
37. A1 McCandless (R)*
38. Jerry M. Patterson (D)
39. William E. Dannemeyer (R)
40. Robert E. Badham (R)
41. Bill Lowery (R)
42. Daniel E. Lungren (R)
43. Ron Packard (R)*
44. Jim Bates (D)*
45. Duncan L. Hunter (R)
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COLORADO
Patricia Schroeder CD)
Timothy E. Wirth (D)
Raymond P Kogovsek (D)
Hank Brown fR)
Kenneth B. Kramer (R;
Jack Swigert tRi*
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CONNECTICUT
Barbara B. Kennelly (D)
Satnuel Gejdenson (D)
Bruce A. Morrison (D)*
Stewart B. McKinney (R)
William R. Ratchford (D)
Nancy L. Johnson (R)*
DELAWARE
AL Thomas R. Carper (D)*
FLORIDA
1. Earl D. Hutto (D)
2. Don Euqua (D)
3.-Charles E. Bennett (D)
4. Bill Chappell Jr. (D) ^
5. Bill McCollum (R)
6. Kenneth MacKay (D)*
7. Sam Gibbons (D)
8. C.W. Bill Young (R)
9. Michael Bilirakis-(R)*
10. Andy Ireland (D)
11. Bill Nelson (D)
12. Tom Lewis (R)*
13. Connie M. Mack III (R)*
14. Dan Mica (D)
15. E. Clay Shaw (R)
.16. Larry J. Smith (D)*
17. William Lehman (D)
18. Claude Pepper (D)
19. Dante B. Eascell (D)
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GEORGIA
Lindsay Thomas (D)*
Charles E Hatcher (D)
Richard Ray (D)*
Elliott H. Levitas (D)
Wyche Eowler Jr. (D)
Newt Gingrich (R)
Larry McDonald (D)
J. Roy Rowland (D)*
Ed Jenkins (D) .
Doug Barnard (D)
HAWAII
1. Cecil Heftel (D)
2. Daniel Akaka (D)
IDAHO
1. Larry Craig (R)
2. George Hansen (R)
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ILLINOIS
Harold Washington (D)
Gus Savage (D)
Marty Russo (D)
George M. O'Brien (R)
William O. Lipinski (D)*
Henry J. Hyde (R)
Cardiss Collins (D)
Dan Rostenkowski (D)
Sidney R. Yates (D)
John E. Porter (R)
Erank Annunzio (D)
Philip M. Crane (R)
John N. Erlenbom (R)
Tom Corcoran (R)
Edward R. Madigan (R)
Lynn M. Martin (R)
Lane Evans (D)*
Robert H. Michel (R)
Daniel B. Crane (R)
Richard J. Durbin (D)*
Melvin Price (D)
Paul Simon (D)
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INDIANA
Katie Hall (D)*
Philip R. Sharp (D)
John Hiler (R)
Daniel R. Coats (R)
Elwood Hillis (R)
Dan Burton (R)*
John T. Myers (R)
Francis.X. McCloskey (D)*
Lee H. Hamilton (D)
Andrew Jacobs Jr. (D)
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' IOWA
Jim Leach (R)
Thomas J. Tauke (R)
Cooper Evans (R)
Neal Smith (D)
Tom Harkin (D)
Berkley Bedell (D)
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KANSAS
Pat Roberts (R)
Jim Slattery (D)*
Larry Winn Jr. (R)
Dan Glickman (D)
Robert Whittaker (R)
KENTUCKY
1. Carroll Hubbard Jr. (D)
2. William H. Natcher (D)
3. Romano L. Mazzoli (D)
4. Gene Snyder (R)
5. Harold Rogers (R);
6. Larry J. Hopkins (R)
7-Carl D. Perkins (D)
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LOUISIANA
Robert L. Livingston (R)
Lindy Boggs (D)
W. J. Tauzin (D)
Buddy Roemer (D)
Jerry Huckaby (D)
W. Henson Moore (R)
John.B. Breaux (D)
Gillis W. Long (D)
MAINE
1. John R. McKeman Jr. (R)
2. Olympia J. Snowe (R)
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MARYLAND
Roy Dyson (D)
Clarence D. Long (D)
Barbara A. Mikulski (D)
Marjorie S. Holt (D)
Steny H. Hoyer (D)
Beverly B. Byron (D)
Parren J. Mitchell (D)
Michael D. Barnes (D)
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MASSACHUSETTS
Silvio Conte (R)
Edward P Boland (D)
Joseph D. Early (D)
Barney Frank (D)
James M. Shannon (D)
Nicholas Mavroules (D)
Edward J. Markey (D)
Thomas P O'Neill Jr. (D)
Joe Moakley (D)
Gerry E. Studds (D)
Brian J. Donnelly (D)
MICHIGAN
1. John Conyers. Jr. (D)
2. Carl D. Pursell (R)
3. .Howard E. Wolpe (D)
4. Mark Siljander (R)
5. Harold S. Sawyer (R)
• 6. Bob Carr (D)*
7. Dale E. Kildee (D)
8. Bob Traxler (D)
9. Guy Vander Jagt (R)
10. Donald J. Albosta (D)
11. Robert W. Davis (R)
12. David E. Bonior (D)
13. George W. Crockett Jr. (D)
14. Dennis M. Hertel (D)
15. William D. Ford (D)
16. John D. Dingell (D)
17. Sander Levin (D)*
18. William s. Broomfield (R)
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MINNESOTA
Timothy J. Penny (D)*
Vin Weber (R)
Bill Frenzel (R)
Bruce E Vento (D)
Martin Olav Sabo (D)
Gerry Sikorski (D)*
Arlan Stangeland (R)
James L. Oberstar (D)
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MISSISSIPPI
Jamie L. Whitten (D)
Webb V. Franklin (R)*
G. V. Montgomery (D)
Wayne Dowdy (D)
Trent Lott (R)
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MISSOURI
William Clay (D)
Robert A. Young (D)
Richard A. Gephardt (D)
Ike Skelton (D)
Alan Wheat (D)*
E. Thomas Coleman (R)
(^ene Taylor (R)
Bill Emerson (R)
Harold L. Volkmer (D)
MONTANA
1. Pat Williams (D)
2. Ron Marlenee (R)
NEBRASKA
1. Douglas K. Bereuter (R)
2. Hal Daub-(R)
3. Virginia Smith (R)
NEVADA
1. Harry Reid (D)«
2. Barbara Vucanovich (R)*
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1. Norman E. D" Amours (D)
2. Judd Gregg (R)
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NEW JERSEY
James J. Florio (D)
William J. Hughes (D)
Jim Howard (D)*
Christopher H. Smith (R)
Marge Roukema (R)
Bernard J. Dwyer (D) •
Matthew J. Rinaldo (R)
Robert A. Roe (D)
RobertG. Torricelli (DJ*
Peter W. Rodino Jr. (D)
Joseph G. Minish (D)
Jalhes A. Courter (R)
Edwin B. Fbrsythe (R)
Frank J. Guarini (D)
NEW MEXICO
1. Manuel LujanJr. (R)
2. Joe Skeen (R)
3. Bill Richardson (D)*
NEW YORK
1. William Carney (R)
2. Thomas J. Downey (D)
3. Robert J. Mrazek (D)*
4. Norman J. Lent (R)
5. Raymond J. McGrath (R)
6. Joseph P Addabbo (D)7. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D)8. James H. Scheuer (D)
9. Geraldine A. Ferrarro (D)
10. Charles E. Schumer (D)
11. Edolphus Towns (D)*
12. Major R. Owens (D)*
13. Stephen J. Solarz (D)
14. Guy V. Molinari (R)
15. Bill Green (R)
16. Charles B. Rangel(D)
17. Theodore S. Weiss (D)
18. Robert Garcia (D)
19. Mario Biaggi (D)
20. Richard L. Ottinger (D)
21. Hamilton Fish Jr. (R)
22. Benjamin A. Gilman (R)
23. Samuel S. Stratton (D)
24. Gerald B H. Solomon (R)
25. Sherwood L. Boehlert (R)*
26.''David O'B. Martin (R)
27. George C. Wortley (R)
28. Matthew E McHugh (D)
29. Frank Horton (R)
30. Barber B. Conable Jr. (R)
31. Jack E Kemp (R)
32. John J. LaFalce (D)
33. Henry J. Nowak (D)
34. Stanley N. Lundine (D)
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NORTH CAROLINA
Walter B. Jones (D)
i. T. Valentine Jr. (D)*
Charles Whitley (D)
Ike E Andrews (D)
Stephen L. Neal (D)
Charles R. Britt (D)*
Charles Rose (D)
W, G. Hefner (O)
James G. Martin (R)
James T Broyhill (R)
James M. Clarke (D)*
NORTH DAKOTA
AL Byron L. Dorgan (D)
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OHIO
Thomas A. Luken (D)
Willis D. Gradison Jr. (R)
Tbny P. Hall (D)
Michael Oxley (R)
Delbert L. Latta (R)
Bob McE^en (R)
Michael Dewine (R)*
Thomas N. Kindness (R)
Marcy Kaptur (D)*
Clarence E. Miller (R)
Dennis E. Eckart (D)
John R: Kasich (R)*
Donald J. Pease (D)
John E Seiberling (D)
Chalmers R Wylie (R)
Ralph S. Regula (R)
Lyle Williams (R)
Douglas Applegate (D)
Edward E Ffeighan (D)*
Mary Rose Dakar (D)
Louis Stokes (D)
OKLAHOMA
James R. Jones (D)
Mike Synar'(D)
Wes Watkins (D)
Dave McCurdy (D)'
Mickey Edwards (D)
Glenn English (D)
OREGON
Les AuCoin (D)
Robert Smith (R)*
RonWyden(D)
James Weaver (D)
Denny Smith (R)
PENNSYLVANIA
1. Thomas M. Fbglietta (D)
2. William H. Gray III (D)
3. Robert A. Borski (D)*
4. Joseph P Kolter (D)*
5. Richard T Schulze (R)*
6. Gus Yatron (D)
7. Robert W. Edgar (D)
8. Peter H. Kostmayer (D)*
9. Bud Shuster (R)
10. Joseph M. McDade(R)
11. Frank G. Harrison (D)*
12. JohnP Murtha(D)
13. Lawrence Coughlin (R)
14. ..William J. Coyne(D)
15. Donald L. Ritter (R)
16. Roberts. Walker (R)
17. George W. Gekas (R)
18. Doug Walgren (D)
19. William F Goodling (R)
20. Joseph M. Gaydos (D)
21.'Thomas J. Ridge (R)*
22. Austin J. Murphy (D)
23. William E dinger Jr. (R) ,
RHODE ISLAND
1. Femand J. St Germain (D)
2. Claudine Schneider (R)
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SOUTH CAROLINA
Tommy Hartnett (R)
Floyd Spence (R)
Butler Derrick (D)
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (R)
John Spratt (D)*
Rubin M. Tallon Jr. (D)*
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TEXAS
Sam B. Hall Jr. (D)
Charles Wilson (D)
Steve Bartlett (R)*
Ralph M. Hall (D)
John Bryant (D)*
Phil Gramm (D)
Bill Archer (R)
Jack Fields (R)
Jack Brooks (D)
J. J. Pickle (D)
Marvin Leath (D)
Jim Wright (D)
Jack Hightower (D)
William N. Patman (D)
Ede la Garza (P)
Ronald Coleman (D)*
Charles W. Stenholm (D)
Mickey Leland (D)
Kent Hance (D)
Henry B. Gonzalez (D)
TomLoeffler(R)
Ron Paul (R)
Abraham Kazen Jr. (D)
Martin Frost (D)
Mike Andrews (D)*
Tom Vandergriff (D)*
Solomon P. Ortiz (D)*
UTAH
1.. James Hansen (R)
2. Dan Marriott (R)3. Howard C. Nielson (R)*
VERMONT
AL James M. Jeffords (R)
VIRGINIA
1.' Herbert Bateman (R)*
2. G. William Whitehurst (R)
3. Thomas J. Bliley Jr. (R)
4. Norman Sisisky (D)*
5. Dan Daniel (D)
6. James Olin (D)*
7. J. Kenneth Robinson (R)
8. Stanford E. Parris (R)
9. Frederick C. Boucher (D)*
10. Frank R. Wolf (R)
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2.
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WASHINGTON
Joel Pritchard (R)
A1 Swift (D)
Don Bunker (D)
Sid Morrison (R)
Thomas S. Foley (D)
Norman D. Dicks (D)
MikeLowry(D)
Rodney Chandler (R)*
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WEST VIRGINIA
Alan B. Mollohan (D)*
Harley O. Staggers Jr. (D)*
Robert E. Wise Jr. (D)*
Nick Joe Rahall II (D)
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9.
WISCONSIN
Les Aspin (D)
Robert W. Kastenmeier (D)
Steve Gunderson (R)
Clement J. Zablocki (D)
Jim Moody (D)*
Thomas E. Petri (R)
David R. Obey (D)
Toby Roth (R)
F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R)
WYOMING
AL Richard B. Cheney (R)
SOUTH DAKOTA
AL Thomas A. Daschle (D)
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TENNESSEE
James H. Quillen (R)
John J. Duncan (R)
Marilyn L. Bouquard (D)
Jim Cooper (D)*
William Hill Boner (D)
Albert Gore Jr. (D)
Donald K. Sundguist (R)*
Ed Jones (D)
Harold E. Ford (D)
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�SIU Takes Lead to Protect U.S. Jobs In Maritime
Nfenezueia Tariff Beef
The SIU has taken the lead in
demanding that the United States
government protect American
shipping companies from the unfair
economic policies of Venezuela
which has tried to prevent American
carriers from participating in the US/
Venezuela trade by imposing dis
criminatory tariffs on American flag
vessels.
The controversy is an extremely
sensitive one that involves jobs for
American seamen, international
treaties, Venezuelan oil, American
foreign policy, and the economic
order of the inter-American world.
Many people feel that the policies
of the present Administration has
helped fuel the controversy. For the
past two years, the Reagan Admin
istration has refused to endorse the
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development Liner Code.
Our European allies have been
furious at our stand on this issue.
They have publicly warned us that
the alternative to the UNCTAD
Liner Code is international chaos
where individual countries would
randomly try to impose their own
system of order.
Their warnings have proved
prophetic. Earlier this year the gov
ernment of Venezuela U-ied to t^
advantage of the unsettled inter
national situation and America's
need for oil by trying to exclufde
American "twriers from the USVenezuela trade.
Two American shipping compa
nies affected by Venezuela's
"While the SIU is on record as
supporting reservations of cargoes
for national flag vessels, such
reservations' should be equitable
actions— Coordinated Caribbean between trading partners."
Transport, Inc. and Delta Steamship
The SIU's present position is in
Lines, both of which are manned line with the one it has consistently'
by SIU seamen—^have filed petitions taken for more than two years: that
with the Federal Maritime Com the US should sign the UNCTAD
mission.
agreement.
The SIU, which is being repre^
Not only would such a move
sented by Richard Daschback, a guarantee a 40-40-20 split on ship
former Secretary of the Federal ping, thereby creating many new
Maritime Commission, has force jobs for American seamen, but it
fully backed up the two shipping would stabilize an uncertain world
companies in an effort to save , economic-system.
American jobs for Americait
In response to actions taken by
seamen.
— the SIU and the two affected com
In a letter to Francis C. Humey, panies, the Federal Maritime Com
present Secretary of the Federal mission has issued a notice pro
Maritime Commission, SIU Presi posing to suspend the tariffs of
dent Frank Drozak outlined the Venezuelan flag carriers in the trade
union's position:
from the US to Venezuela.
Write Your Congressman: Remember Your Letter Counts
The SIU did very well in the
November elections. We backed 345
candidates who won, thereby giving
our membership a strong voice when
the next session of Congress
assumes office in January.
Th^ SIU is doing its bit in Washin^tpij. We were able to prevent the'
Administration from totally dis
mantling the Jones Act. More
important, we laid the foundation
for long term gains by helping Lindy
Boggs formulate the Competitive
Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of
1982 and by monitoring progress
on the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development Liner
Code (UNCTAD) and the Law of
the Sea Conference.
Congressmen do listen-to orga
nized interest groups when it comes
to voting on legislation. The SIU
lobbyists perform an important
function by providing overworked
Congressional staffs with detailed
research and analysis.
But the union can do only so
much in protecting the interests of neat. A neat letter shows that the
its members. And that is where you sender cares about what kind of
the membership come in.
impression he is making. Many
A letter from one constituent is Congressmen feel that a person who
worth ten trips from a lobbyist. takes the time to send a neat letter
Congressmen are like any other will be the kind of person who is
people: they want to secure their more likely to vote.
jobs. So when a voting member of
The more people who write, the
the District writes about an issue, better. Get your parents or friends
a Congressman listens real hard.
to write even if they live in another
Seamen are not like other interest district.
groups in this country. We are scat
When writing your letter, make
tered across the country. It is easy it known that you are a voting
to overlook us.
member of that Congressman's
It is one thing for a Congressman district.
If you do not know the name of
from a land locked area to talk to a
lobbyist from the maritime industry. your Congressman you can call your
He'll listen, but not too closely Union hall or local library for
because he doesn't think that mari
time issues affect the voters of his
district.
But if a member from his District
writes and lets it be known that he
has a stake in the survival of the
American flag Merchant Marine, a
Congressman will listen.
If possible, the letter should be
assistance. You can talk to one of
the SIU Field Representatives. They
will help you in every way.
When you do decide to write your
Congressman, you can reach him
at the following address:
The Honorable (Congress
man's Name)
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
If you also decide to write your
Senators, you should address the
envelope like this:
The Honorable (Senator's
name)
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
New York Port Council Honors
McKay As 'Man of the Year'
From the LOG:
Speedy Recovery Wishes
The staff of the LOG wishes a speedy recovery to our brothers
and sisters who were working at SIU Headquarters and were injured
in a bus accident in Maryland on Nov. 17.
We send a special greeting to Dorothy Re and Bert Sohan who
are still hospitalized.
Most especially, we extend our sympathy to the family of John
Reynolds who was killed in that accident.
The others on the bus were:
Rita Angela
Angelina Johansen
Robin Allwine
Sylvia
Jordan
Herbert
Mueller
Donna Ferguson
James Sexton
Rita Sandoval
Bridget Hall
Doris Stertzer
Betty Dunbar
Barbara Stone
Marie Florio
Nancy Torres
Harry Wheatley
Ray McKay was honored as "Man of the Year" by the Maritime Port
Council of Greater New York at a dinner held in New York City Nov. 20.
Presenting the special award instituted in honor of the late Paul Hall was
Mrs. Rose Hall. Brother McKay, president of MEBA District 2, was a
protege, friend and trusted confidant of Paul Hall. Speaking at the award
ceremony, and participating in the presentation, were Frank Lonardo, at
left, president of the New York Port Council, and SIU President Frank
Drozak.
December 1982 / LOG 5
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Seek AFL-CIO Counsel on Staipture
SlU Continues Merger Initiative With NMU
Continuing the merger initative "a solid base of organized labor on
launched in the early 1970's by the the waterfront."
In recent talks, both the SIU and
SIU, both the Seafarers International
Union and the National Maritime the NMU have agreed to step up
Union are calling upon the AFL- their organizing activities in a joint
CIO to provide assistance in effort to provide the benefits of
"structuring a merger" between the organized labor to crewmembers
aboard non-union ships, and to fur
two unlicensed seafaring unions.
In a joint letter to AFL-CIO ther protect the job rights and job
President Lane Kirkland, SIU security of SIU and NMU seamen.
President Frank Drozak and NMU
In carrying out the organizing
President Shannan Wall said that the
campaign, patrolmen from both
objectives of the two organizations
unions will be assigned US a team
"to effect ~a" merger that would
to visit vessels owned by the targeted
improve the jobs and job security
companies whenever their ships
of both memberships involve a
reach a port. The partolmen will
number of "complex and in-depth
work under the direction of
problems"
Organzing Field Directors, NMU's
The AFL-CIO, with the close
Henry Dooley and SIU's Tom Glipersonal guidance of Kirkland, has
dewelL
focihtated the successful mergers of
SIU and NMU initiated their
several major labor organizations
efforts for cooperative action at a
within the AFL-CIO.
The increase in non-union ships meeting last spring, when they made
under the American flag is proposals to work together on a wide
prompting a concerted effort to bring range df issues, including the joint
about a merger which would build organizing drive.
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Representatives of the SIU and the NMU met last month at the offices
of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department in Washington to continue
merger talks. At left are NMU officials Tal Simpkins, NMU President
Shannon Wall, and Vice Presidents Thomas Martinez, James Peterson
and Louis Parise. From right to left are SIU President Frank Drozak,
Frank Pecquex, Leo Bonser, Jack Caffey, and SIU Vice President
MikeSacco.
SIU Dues Increase $1
As COLA Rises By 2%
As of Dec. 16, 1982 a two percent Cost of Living Adjustment
went into effect in the deep sea Standard Tanker Agreement and the
Standard Freightship/Passenger Agreement. This two percent COLA
negotiated by the SIU in our last contract applies to the base monthly
wage, the premium rate, the overtime rate for work performed in
excess of eight hours, Monday through Friday, and the penalty off
watch rate, Monday through Friday. (Full details on this increase
are carried in this issue of the LOG.)
Because of the COLA, there will be an increase of $1 in dues for
the first and second quarters of 1983. ,This action is taken by the
Union in accordance with Article 5, Section lA 17 of the SIU,
AGLIWD Constitution. Since current dues are $58, the new dues
for the first and second quarters of 1983 will be $59.
6 / LOG / December 1982
As the result of that meeting,
Drozak and Wall signed a Memo
randum of Understanding in which
they agreed to share equally in the
responsibilities and benefits of
crewing vessels operated by or for
the U.S. Government.
The two unions agreed to coop
erate in crewing ships run by the
Military Sealift Command, the U.S.
Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard and
other government agencies as well
as vessels chartered by these agen
cies that are crewed and operated
by private industry.
Under the same agreement
reached earlier this year, the two
seafaring unions agreed to share,
on a 50-50 basis, the crewing of
vessels operated by newly-organized
companies not now under contract
to either union.
-November 16,^ 982
Mr. Lane Kirkland
President
AFL-CIO
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, B.C. 20006
Deaj Sir and Brother:
The xmdersigned Presidents of the National Maritime Union
the Seafarers International Union AGLIW, with their
Executive Officers, have for sometime been discussing merger of
our respective organizations. In connection with this
undertaking, it has become apparent that multiple, complex and
indepth problems are involved in realizing our objectives.
We are aware of similar multiple mergers by other AFL-CIO
affiliates and in conneption therewith, the Federation has
assisted and has had available to it persons with expertise in
this area. We believe that your recommendation as to such ea^rt
persons would be helpfid to us in structuring a merger and
advising us as to problems which may be attendant uiwh this
undertaking.
In any event, all merger results including a report and
recommendation woxild be subject after prior adequate notice and
discussion be submitted to our respective memberships for
approval.
We shall await your advice as to the names of such persons
experienced in like mergers so that we may contact them and
arrange for an appropriate selection.
Fraternally yours,
Frank Droxak, President
Seafarers mtemational
Union
Shannon J. Wall, President
Wational Maritinie Union
SIU Contract & Appeals
Board Moving to Washington
D.C. Dec. 1
Because of the move of SIU Headquarters from New York to
Camp Springs, Md., the Seafarers Contract Department and the
Seafarers Appeals Board are also being relocated.
Beginning Dec. 1, all inquiries to either of these departments
should be addressed to SIU Vice President Angus Campbell at the
Contract Department or the Seafarers Appeals Board at the following
address: 5201 Auth Way, Camp Springs, Md. 20746.
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SIU Deep Sea Members to Get
2% Cost of Living Increases
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Under the tenns of the Standard Tanker Agreement and the Standard Freightship/
Passenger Agreement, Seafarers covered by those contracts will begin receiving a two
percent (2%) Cost of Living Adjustment, effective Dec. 16, 1982.
The two percent COLA is applied to base wages, the overtime rate, the premium
rate, and the penalty off watch rate Monday through Friday. Also, the COLA applies to
the vacation benefit.
On LNG vessels the two percenFCOLA-applies ta-base-monthly wages and to the.
overtime Tate.
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Note: The COLA is not applicable to on-watch Mond^-through-Friday or on-watch
Saturday, Sunday and Holidays penalty rates and special rates such as longshore work and
tank cleaning.
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DECK DEPARTMENT
Boatswain (on vessels constructed since r970) .......
Boatswain (25.500 D.W.T or over) ,.. • ••••• 4
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Boatswain (under A,500 D.W.T) ....
A.B. Deck Mainteiiance
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Able Seaman (Green)
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Class2
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Second Pumpman/Engine Mice. ......
SHip's Welder Maintenance
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Engine Utility
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Oiler Maintenance-Utility
Oiler
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Fireman/Watertender ...... ......-1;..
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General Utility/Deck Engine ..........
Wiper
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2.043.62
1.867.24 .
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i.869.46
1.655.00
-1.505.22
1..542.16 ,
1..3.38.11 '
I..338.11
1,228.61
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Chief Steward (on vessels constructed, since 1970) .....
Steward/Cook
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Steward/Baker
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Chief Steward (25.500 D.W.T or over) . .74
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Chief Steward (under 25,500 D.W.T) ..
Chief Cook
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Steward Assi.stant
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OfT Watch, Monday through Friday
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2.043.62
1.859.89
1.790.45
1,607.15
1,569.23
1.391.91
1,391.91
1.025.74
17.74
16.17
14.64
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STANDARD FREIGHTSfflP/PASSENGER AGREEMENT
WAGES, PREMIUM AND OVERTIME RATES AS OF
DECEMBER 16, 1982
DECK DEPARTMENT
Boatswain (SL7's. SLI8's, D6's, D9's, Lash, Mariner
& Passenger)
Boatswain
Carpenter
......,. ,.....
Carpenter Maintenance
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Quartermaster
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Ordinary Seaman ......
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Base Wages
Monthly Rate
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Sat., Sun. & Holidays
Overtime Rate
E;(tcess of 8 Hrs,
Mon.-Fri.
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51,964.07
1.7.37.15
1,598.25
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1,476.99
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1.322.56
1.230.29
1,322.56
1.105.17
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5.88
5.88
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Sat., Sun. & Holidays
SI7.74
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Base Wages
Monthly Rate
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I.8.52..50
1.78.3.04
1.520.48 •
1.338.11
1.244.75
1.228.61
1.061.08
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Chief Electrician (SL7"s, SLlS's, D6's. Lash,
Mariner and Passenger)
Q.M.E.D./Electrician D-9
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Refrigeration Engineer (when one is carried) .,.. i.
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Excess of 8 Hrs.
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Premium Rate
Sat., Sun. & Holidays
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1.910.40
1.910.40
1.910.40
518.43
18.43
17.74
17.74
17.74
17.74
16.65
16.65
16.65
16.65
1.959.54
1.741.28
1.624.39
15.26
14.58
14.14
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15.62
14.22
12.84
15.26
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13.14
14.14
14.14
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12.24
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12.42
11.56
11.56
11.56
10.75
14.14
12.42
10.75
9.68
1.964.07
1.803.69
1.643.31
1,482.94
1.751.73
1.671.46
1,505.00
1.620.88
1,636.30
1,526.61
1,400.24
.1,322.56
1,423.26
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1,322.56
1,322.56
1.228.53
1,640.70
1,526.61
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1.964.07
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1,544.03
1,504.99
1,322.56
1,304.69
1,304.69
1.025.75
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Chief Steward
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l,egislativc. Administrative and Kegulatorv Happenings
WASHINGTON REPORT
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Monilale on Maritime
After nearly a generation in power, Leonid
Brezhnev passed away.^ The man who replaced
Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, is expected to follow
the basic outlines of his predecessor's policies.
The relentless Soviet buildup that Brezhnev
started is expected to remain right on course.
Some analysts feel that it might even be inten
sified because Andropov must cultivate the
good-will of military hard-liners if he is To
remain in power.
The build-up has extended to the maritime
industry.
The Soviet Merchant Marine is the fastest-^
growing in the world. Unlike its American
counterpart, it is totally integrated into the
Soviet's military plans. Pentagon officials like
to talk about "Sealift Capabilityf' Soviet military
planners don't have to. They have the real thing.
. The President's Caribbean Basin Initiative
is running into difficulty during the lameduck
session of Congress. Leaders from both sides
of the aisle are telling the President that he
must prove that he has the votes before they
will even look at legislation.
^an editorial on the Op-Ed page of the New
York Times entitled "The US Can Compete",
Presidential hopeful Walter Mondale outlined
his plans for the future of the American
economy.
"We cannot tolerate,.. trade discrimination
any longer;' Mondale wrote. "We must embark
on a cooperative national effort involving labor,
management, and Government to revitalize
ailing basic industries. We should fully restore
funding for the Export-Import Bank, and should
fully use that Bank to match the export subsidies
of our trade competitors, product for product,
dollar for dollar."
This is good news for the maritime industry
which relies upon trade and exporting for its
survival. The American flag Merchant Marine
is one of "those basic American industries"
that has been forced to compete with foreign
companies that not only are heavily subsidized,
but sometimes entirely subsidized. In an
atmosphere like this, the concept of free trade
becomes something of a bad joke.
Trouble Birewing
While world attention focussed on recent
changes in Soviet leadership, quiet yet poten
tially far-reaching changes were occuring
throughout the world.
The world's economic system teetered on
the verge of insolvency. Hundreds of billions
of dollars are owed to Western bankers by such
countries as Poland, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.
It is unlikely that these debts will ever be repaid.
The United States has not helped matters. It
has contributed to this sense of instability by
refusing to ratify the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development Liner Code
(UNCTAD).
The United States is paying a heavy price
for its short-sightedness. Venezuela, which has
rich deposits of oil, has already taken unilateral
action by effectively excluding American ship
ping companies fk)m the US-Venezuelan trade.
(See separate story in this issue of the LOG.)
The CBI was originally conceived as a good
will gesture to aid the depressed countries of
Central America and the Caribbean. Yet as for
mulated by the Reagan Administration, it con
tained many provisions harmful to American
workers.
To give one example: The jobs of cannery
workers, who are affiliated with the Seafarers
International Union of North America, would
be unfairly jeopardized by provisions in the
CBI relaxing import duties on tuna products.
American labor has been unified in its oppo
sition to the bill. Frank Drozak, president of
the SIU and president of the 8.5 million member
Maritime Trades Department, has been in the
forefront of that fight.
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Maritime Authoriiatioiis
Each year Congress must review its maritimd
policy. It must establish new funding levels for
the Merchant Marine and formulate, continue,
modify or drop federal maritime programs.
This all falls under the banner of the Maritime
Authorizations Bill.
As reported in previous issues of the LOG,
the House and Senate have already passed their
respective versions of the Maritime Authori
zations Bill. While imperfect, the House version
is definitely superior to its Senate counterpart.
Unfortunately, Senate and House conferees
have issued a joint report that adopts most,
though not all, of the recommendations made
in the Senate bill.
The conferees have recommended that, sub
sidized operators be allowed to build their ves
sels in foreign shipyards. If this recommendation
is ratified by both the House and the Senate,
then it will mean the end of the domestic ship
building industry as we know it.
The SIU is hoping to mount a last minute
campaign from the floor of the House to block
this legislation.
One small victory; no matter which version
of the Maritime Authorizations Bill is enacted
into law, subsidized operators will not be
allowed to use Capital Construction Funds
(CCF) when building overseas.
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Labor Roundup
United States vs.The World
One can usually predict what's happening
in the mwitime industry by the general state
of the American economy. If exports are down,
or if the economy is in a slump, then the chances
are better than even that ships will be tied up
and-seamen stranded on the beach.
Shipping is slow because the economy has
not recovered from i,ts prolonged slump.
Reaganomics has not worked magic the way
its supporters promised. As a matter of record:
unemployment is-at an all-time_post-war high;
budget deficits continue to increase despite
frantic attempts to keep them in line; businesses
are failing in record numbers, and soup lines
are growing in every major industrial center in
the United States.
Things are so bad that even the Administra
tion is toning down its predictions for an eco
nomic upswing. Malcolm Baldridge, the Sec
retary of Commerce, admitted that the recovery
the Administration has been talking about will
come later than expected and that it would not
be strong enough to help the 12 million people
out of work.
In the meantime. President Reagan's support
for our industry is defined in the "Build Foreign"
program which insures further layoffs and
unemployment for American workers.
Organized labor has been playing an active
role in fighting for an improved maritime
industry. As usual, the Maritime Trades
Department is taking the lead.
Last month the Department condemned the
Reagan Administration's decision to effectively
dismantle the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration's enforcement capabilities for
weakening the law that brought it into being.
"The Reagan Administration has been con
ducting a running war against OSHA," MTD
Executive Secretary Treasurer Jean Ingrao said.
"They seem committed to eliminating the Fed
eral govemment's role in the protection of health
and safety of workers on the job. We're equally
committed to protecting OSH A.
In related news, Ingrao talked about the need
to create jobs in the maritime industry, which
has been badly hit by the present recession.
One way would be for Congress to reaffirm
legislation it passed concerning the regulation
of the oceari seabed.
Outside the MTD, Lane Kirkland joined SIU
President Frank Drozak in calling for passage
of the Boggs Bulk Bill. According to Kirkland,
"It would provide jobs for seamen and ship
builders, Minnesota iron miners and Michigan
steelworkers, and for marine supply and support
industries in 26 states. It would produce billions
for the federal treasury and stimulate the
economy right across the board."
The United States has been having a great
deal of trouble with its allies lately. Some of
that trouble is of its own making.
A showdown is brewing between this country
and its European and Third World allies over
the Reagan Administration's decision to resist
the UNCTAD Agreement.
The present Administration has decided to
ignore the rest of the world and not ratify the
United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development Liner Code. The rest of the world
views the U.S. position as one that will further
destabilize an already uncertain world economy.
Frankly, we're confused. Most nations
already have some form of protective policies
regarding their merchant fleets. Yet, our. gov
ernment continues to act as if we were truly in
some "Free-Trade" fairyland.
A Matter of Health
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One of the major problems facing the Amer
ican maritime industry is the health of the men
and women working onboard its vessels.
Industry-related illnesses and the rising cost of
health care are threatening to make the industry
less competitive than it already is.
The situation is made worse by the policies
of the Reagan Administration. According to
Frank Drozak, president of the Seafarers Inter
national Union and chief spokesman for the
8.5 million members of the AFL-CIO Maritime
Trades Department, the closing of the U.S.
Public Health Hospitals is creating a serious
financial crisis for the industry.
While present benefits for SIU members are
secure, Drozak, said, expanded coverage may
be curtailed because the plans will have to make
up the cost differential.
Moreover, the Administration's decision to
ease existing health standards in the environment
and the work place will make it more likely
that seamen and other workers will come down
with costly and life threatening illnesses.
Don't just gripe to
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Medical Benefits
In unveiling its plans for an expanded defense
budget, the Reagan Administration "flied some
trial balloons" on how to pay for the bill. Health
and Human Services Secretary Richard
Schweiker leaked to the press that the Admin
istration is thinking about taxing the money
that woricers receive from their health insurance.
The plan received swift and immediate con
demnation. While it is unlikely that it will ever
go into effect, it says a lot about the priorities
of the present Administration.
S/U Stewards Tour Washington
Upgrading Stewards pose on the steps of the Capitol building to record on film a trip that gave
them a clearer understanding of the Congressional legislative process and SlU's lobbying efforts
on the 'Hill.' Pictured above are Frank Bortlett, Willie Braggs, John Cherry, George Gibbons, Anthony
Goncalves, Nicholas Halgimisios, Thomas Hanbins, Henry Jones Jr., Stephen Piatab, James Temple,
Roy Thomas, Joseph Moody and the conductors of the tour-workshop, SIU Representative-InTraining Ben Adams and SIU Washington Representatives Frank Pecquex and Liz Di Mato:
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Navy support
vessels is a non-partisan issue that
has drawn the support of both the
Seafarers International Union and
the National Maritime Union. At
stake are 7,000-10,000 seagoing
jobs.
SIU President Frank Drozak
together with NMU President
Shannon Wall have been meeting
with Pentagon officials and repre
sentatives of the Reagan Adminis
tration in an effort to hammer out
a compromise that would benefit
both fhe military and the private
sector merchant marine.
When talking to Pentagon offi
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According to Reagan:
' 'Our Merchant Marine is a vital
auxiliary to the U.S. Navy. At a time
when the Navy'ysupport capability
is open to serious question, we
should be increasing the merchant
marine's role'.'
Pentagon officials have been
known to have privately advised the
President to scuttle the measure
because it would cost too much.
Some of them doubt that seamen in
the private industry possess the skills
needed in the support activities.
Others say that there might be dis-
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activities.
Drozak has forcefully rebutted
these assertions point by point.
COST: According to studies
conducted by private sector
researchers, the primary cost dif
ference between the private sector
and the government exists above the
classification of "unlicensed". Those
categories are not in question.
Moreover, it would probably be
cheapen to ^ploy private sector
unlicensed seamen than public
sector ones. President Reagan him
self shares that belief.
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School of Seamanship. But even if
the Pentagon thinks that some skills
should be taught that aren't being
taught, it would be relatively easy
to overcome that fact. The training
facilities exist. Existing programs
could easily be modified as the
Pentagon and the unions see fit.
POTENTIAL DISRUPTION
OF SERVICE: Civilian manning
of non-combatant vessels is not a
hew idea. It has been tried before
with very few problems. From 1936
until 1981 the government-operated
Panama Line of the Panama Railroad
Company hired seamen directly
from private hiring halls.
Drozak Visits Strife-torn Central America
SIU Leader Represents AFL-CIO In Meeting With Workers
' 'Nothing so frightens totalitarian
regimes, left or right, as the power
of workers united in a free frade
union movement.. .The fear is jus
tified, for the common enemy of
these regimes is democracy; and the
true test of democracy is whether
workers can freely organize them-^
selves- into unions of their own
design. Without this free right of
association, the rights of free speech
and assembly are unfulfilled prom
ises'.'
AFL-CIO President
Lane Kirkland
October 26, 1982
In order to obtain first hand
knowledge of the problems and
conflicts affecting the workers in
Costa Rica, Nicaragua and El Sal
vador, the Executive Board of the
ICFTU authorized a high level mis
sion to visit those troubled countries.
The AFL-CIO, which reaffiliated
to the ICFTU in January 1982, was
represented by Frank Drozak, pres
ident of the Seafarers International
Union and member of the Executive
Council of the AFL-CIO. William
C. Doherty, Jr., executive director
of the AFL-CIO's American Insti
tute for Free Labor Development
was also a U.S. representative on
the delegation.
The International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions, with head
quarters in Brussels has more than
75 million members in various affi
liated national federations
throughout the non-communist
world.
The ICFTU delegation was
expected to visit each country and
obtain first hand information by
meeting with representatives of all
sectors so that a timely objective
and comprehensive report and recommendations would be presented
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endemic to the region.
The delegation arrived in Man
agua, Nicaragua on Nov. 1. The
Sandinist authorities permitted the
group to meet with the CUS, as well
as with opposition political parties
and professional associations, and
the Commission on Human Rights.
Meetings were also held with rep
resentatives of the FSLN, including
Minister of Labor Virgilio Godoy,
a member of the FSLN Directorate
and the Government coordinator of
the Sandinist Labor Central.
Frank Drozak talks with Alvin Guthrie of the Nicaraguan free trade union
movement and other members of the joint mission of the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions following a wreath-laying ceremony
in Managua honoring slain Nicaraguan labor leader Luis Medrano who
was murdered by Samozan forces in 1979.
to the ICFTU's November Execu
tive Board Meeting.
Drozak and Doherty were joined
in Mexico City by the vice president
of the Canadian Labour Congress,
Raymond Mercier, as well as the
CLC's director of International
Affairs, John Marker.
ICFTU was represented by Enzo
Frizo, director of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Tulio Cuevas and
Claudio Artavia, the general secretaries of the Regional InterAmerican Organization of Workers
(GRIT) and the Central American
Confederation of Workers (CTCA)
represented Latin America. Representing Europe were the directors
of International Affairs of the Italian
Confederation of Trade Unions
(CISL) and the Nordic Council of
Trade Unions, Emilio Gabaglio and
Peer Carllson.
On Oct. 31 th^" delegation arrived
in San Jose, Costa Rica. Meetings
were held with the leadership of the
Costa Rican Confederation of Free
Workers (CCTD), with President
Monge and with Nicaraguan polit-
ical exiles led by Commander Eden
Pastora, a defector from the Nicar
aguan FSLN.
Gilbert Brown, General Secretary
of the Costa Rican Confederation
of Free Workers, welcomed the
international group and described
the effects of the current economic
crisis on the workers.
President Monge, who is a former
trade union leader and was a past
General Secretaiy of ORIX extended
a warm welcome to the delegation.
President Monge has maintained
close ties with the AFL-CIO for
many years, and is the only ex-trade
union leader in Latin America to be
elected President. He asked for any
support of the international democratic labor community that would
enable Costa Rica to continue to
develop peacefully and "democratically.
Members of the delegation agreed
that support for Costa Rica should
be actively sought to ensure that this
peaceful and democratic state will
not become embroiled in the rising
tide of bloody violence which is
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The delegates also visited two
newspapers, Barricada, which
supports the government, and La
Prensa, which is allowed to publish
opposition news although it is
heavily censored. The arrival of the
ICFTU delegation, for example,
was to have been printed on page
one, but the article was prohibited
by the government.
Drozak and some other members
of the delegation arrived in San
- Salvador, El Salvador, on Nov. 3,
and was received by the leaders of
the Federation of Construction,
Transport and Allied Workers, and
by the Salvadoran Communal
Union. Meetings were scheduled
with urban and rural union leaders.
President Alvaro Magana, Bishop
Rivera y Damas, General Jose
Guillermo Gtkrcia, Minister of
Defense, and the Popular Demo
cratic Unity.
In the discussions with the Pres
ident of El Salvador and the Minister
of Defense, the ICFTU delegates
emphasized their rejection of force
as a political instrument, and
expressed the wish for a dialogue
to be established and for an end to
the violence which has claimed from
30 to 40 thousand lives.
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In the port of Houston, where we're
holding our own on deep sea shipping,
we're getting ready for the crewing up
later^this month of the brand new bulk
carrier Spirit of Texas (Titan Naviga
tion). She's the third in a series of ships
built by the SlU-contracted company.
The other two were the Pride of Texas
and the Star of Texas.
I visited our New Orleans Port Agent
Gerry Brown in the hospital and
although he has some serious injuries,
he's hanging in there and hopes to soon
be up and about. It was great to see
hinvin such good spirits and we~all wish him a speedy reeoveiy.
Meanwhile, in the port of New Orleans, which has been hit by torrential
rains, deep sea and inland shipping remains slow. However, shipping is still
alright for our "A" book members, especially if they are flexible about where
they sail.
In the port of Mobile I attended a very successful Port Maritime Council
dinner in honor of Dr. Arthur Amendola, head of the Seafarers clinic in the
port. (A full story on this dinner is carried in this issue of the LOG.)
Also out of Mobile, Port Agent Tommy Glidewell reports that an SIUcontracted dredge. Flamingo (Radcliffe) sank in the Alabama River about
175 miles north of the port.
There were 12 crewmen aboard the dredge at the time but none was hurt.
The SlU-cpntracted tug Gobbler (Radcliffe) rescued the men. At present
there is no known cause for the sinking of the 181-foot long dredgp which
is 38 feet wide and weighs 499 tons.
Also, out of Mobile at the end of the month we're expecting to crew up
another integrated-tug-barge called the New York. She's the third one that
SlU-contracted Apex Marine has launched.
Last month I reported to you extensively on the Nov. 2 voting results.
Though the elections are over, our political work is not. We are preparing
for the new Congress and we are busy contacting local elected officials. Just
because we did so well in the recent elections, we cannot sit back and hope
for the best. We nwst get out there and fight for the kind of legislation that
will insure our members' job security.
As I end this last column of 1982 I want to wish everyone a Very Merry
Christmas and the best of everything in the New Year.
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From the port of Jacksonville comes
the report that the crewmembers of the
SlU-contracted Walter Rice (Reynolds
Metal) rescued approxiinately 15
people from a burning Greek freighter.
The Walter Rice was in the Mediter
ranean, about a day out of Gibraltar.
We hope to have photos and more
details on the rescue in an upcoming
issue of the LOG.
Here in the port of New York, the
Contract Department, the Seafarers
Appeals Board, and the LOG office
have all moved to the new Union
Headquarters in Camp Springs, Md. Last month in this coluirm I gave you
the new address. However, the zip code was incorrect. So let me repeat the
full address: 5201 Auth Way, Camp Springs, Md. 20746. .
Another point that I want to make about the move concerns vacation
checks. As you know, in the past when New York housed Union Headqiiarters
we were able to get vacation checks processed up here in one day. Now that
Headquarters has moved that is no longer possible. I make this point because
I don't want to disappoint our members who come to the port thinking they
will get their vacation checks right away.
Out of the port of Gloucester, a payoff was made on our SlU-contracted
cableship Long Lines which pulled into Portsmouth, N.H. last month before
going out on a special five month run for the Navy. Also up in Massachusetts
we've been making the Sabine tankers which are pulling in steadily now.
We're working together with the National Maritime Union to organize these
ships.
With the wiiiter coming on strong our SlU-contracted fishing boats in
Gloucester—especially the smaller ones—are keeping a close watch on the
weather.
12 / LOG / December 1982
Great Lakes & Western Rivers, By VP. Mike Sacco
Here in St. Louis we've been negotiating the Orgulf contract and I'll have
details for you in the next issue of the
LOG. '
On the Great Lakes, I'm sorry to
report that SlU-contracted Bob-Lo
company has gone bankrupt. The Union
has 60 jobs aboard Bob-Lo's two pas
senger boats which operate from
Memorial Day through Labor Day. The
boats, which, as Algonac Port Agent
Jack Bluitt says, "are as good as the
day they were built," run between
^ ^ Detroit and Bob-Lo Island where there
is-an Amusement park. One b^aL the Columbia, was built in 1902 and the
other, the Ste: Clare, was constructed in 1906. Both vessels have been
declared historical monuments by the State of Michigan.
A bankruptcy hearing is scheduled in Detroit for Jan. 27. Other parties
haYe expressed interest in maintaining operation of the boats and we are
hopeful that we have not seen the last of this traditional summer ryn and the
SIU jobs that go along with it.
Another disappointment for us on the Lakes is that, after- 35 years under
SIU contract, we no longer have the "hand-bomber" Chief Wawatam. The
Detroit-Mackinac Railroad Co. lost the bid on renewing operation of the
vessel for the State. Instead, the operation went to a non-union railroadMichigan Northern Railroad.
Besides taking over the Chief Wawatam, the Michigan Northern Railroad
has also taken over hundreds of miles of track. We find it very strange that
the railroad craft unions have not attempted to organize this companv.
On the positive side on the Lakes, six vessels in the SlU-contracted American
Steamship fleet will be on the winter run. So will the SlU-contracted Medusa
Challenger (Medusa Cement).
Concerning some of our Lakes inland equipment. Great Lakes Dredge
and Dock is finishing up Fall dredging on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland,
and Luedtke Engineering Co. is completing a dredging project on the Rouge
River in Detroit.
' West Coast, By V P. George McCartney
Here on the West Coast, in the port
of Seattle, we're looking forward to
the start of a grain run to Russia. Two
SlU-contracted ships—one an Ogden
Marine vessel and the other a Point
Shipping Vessel—are expected to load
grain in the Columbia River sometime
in January.
A fact not commonly known is that
the northern West Coast is a big grain
area. In fact, just recently, an SIUcontracted ship traveled from the Seattle
area to China with a load of grain.
Concerning contracts, we're in negotiations right now with Star and Crescent
fleet, a harbor touring operation in San Diego, Calif.
Negotiating for the Union along with SIU Wilmington Port Agent Mike
Worley and SIU Representative Frank Gill, was Star and Crescent Captain
Russ Holmes who is chief shop steward.
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of the Southern California Ports Council of the AFL-CIO.Maritime Trades
Department.
Getting back to the area of contracts, SIU reps, along with representatives
from other unions, have been meeting in Southern California with an oil rig
contractor as part of the General Presidents' Offshore Agreement. And further
up north, we have an election coming up on the Golden Alaska, a fish
processing vessel we are trying to organize.
Our SlU-contracted Pacific Maritime Association ships will be receiving
a 2.67 percent Cost of Living Adjustment effective Dec. 16, 1982. The
COLA will be applied to wage related items.
Finally, all of us on the West Coast want to wish New Orleans Port Agent
Gerry Brown a speedy recovery. We have been sending him our good wishes
since his accident. In fact, a card with 200 signatures was mailed from the
port of Wilmington, We all hope that Brother Brown will be back at work
very soon.
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Transportation, Registration
The Seafarers Appeals Board has
recently taken two actions, one
concerning transportation and the
other concerning registration.
Action No. 268 clarifies trans
portation costs for relief seamen and
action No. 269 concerns the reg
istration period for permanent rat
ings.
Both rulings ^e reprinted below.
Also reprinted below is a Mem
orandum of Understanding between
the SIU and its contracted employers
concerning a change of time on the
notice clause for vessels arriving on
a weekend.
The Memorandum of Under
standing covers Article II, Section
57 of the Standard Freightship/Passenger Agreement, and Article II,
Section 55 of the Standard Tanker
Agreement.
To save space, and since the
wording is the same, we have only
reprinted the Memorandum applying
to the Tanker Agreement. But note
that the Memorandum also applies
to the Freightship/Passenger
Agreement.
SAB Action No.
268
The Seafarers Appeals Board,
acting under and pursuant to the
Collective Bargaining Agreement
between the Union and the various
Contracted Employers; hereby takes
the following action.
That whereas Rule 5 A. 12 as
amended by S.A.B. Action No. 260
has not clearly expressed subsection
"0", said subsection shall be
amended to read as follows:
*'IFansportation will be
paid by the Company to
the relief and to the
seaman^ who was
relieved and is returning
to the vessel."
The remainder of Rule 5 A. 12
shall continue in full force and
effect.
SAB Action No.
269
The Seafarers Appeals Board
acting under and pursuant to the
Collective Bargaining Agreement
between the Union ahd thetvarious
Contracted Employers, hereby takes
the following action.
Whereas, Rule 5 A 12 (a) permits
specific ratings to request trip reliefs
between sixty (60) and one hundred
and twenty (120) days and
~ Whereas, Rule 2 B 7 however
specifies that the period of registra
tion shall bje ninety (90) days;
therefore in order to irisure that such
specified ratings are assured of
returning to their assigned vessel
and there is no inconsistency with
Rule 2 B 7, such Rule 2 B 7 shall
be amended by adding to it the fol
lowing provision;
-'The ratings specified in
Rule 5 A 12 (a), who have
requested reliefs of one hundred
twenty (120) days, or whose
vessels because of operational
necessity exceed the ninety (90)
day registration period, pre
venting tlie rating from
rejoining his vessel at the expi
ration of the relief time
requested, shall he nevertheless
considered in compliance with
the period of registration."
off Procedure, subsection 3 be
amended to read as follows:
"3. Any member of the unli
censed Personnel will he
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
he given not later than 1 p.m.
on Thursday.
The Master shall he allowed
Jo discharge any member of the
Unlicensed Personnel upon
twenty four (24) hours notice.
If the seaman exercises his
rights to he paid off, as pro
vided for in this paragraph,
transportation provisions shall
not he applicable. If the Master
exercises his right to discharge
a seaman as provided for in this
paragraph, transportation
provisions shall not he appli
cable. Should the Union object
to the discharge, the matter
shall he handled in accordance
with the grievance procedure."
The notice required for weekT
end terminations is hereby
changed from 1 p.m. Friday to
1 p.m. Thursday due to the fact
that the last job call conducted at
the various hiring halls on
Monday through Friday^
excluding emergency situations.
is 12 noon.
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of
Understanding
It is hereby agreed to between
the Seafarers Intemational Union of
North America, Atlantic, Gulf,
'Lakes and Inland Waters District,
AFL-CIO and the various contracted
Employers signatoiy to the Standard
Tanker Agreement, Article 11, Sec
tion 55 Transportation and Paying
Union Training Officials Tyler Womack and Robert Hall take the A Seniority
Upgraders on a tour of Capitol Hill, where they learned about the union's
lobbying apparatus. Things were slow because Congress was in recess.
Pictured above are Robert Hall and Tyler Womack, and the following A
Seniority Upgraders: Thomas Barrett, Alan Bright, Steven Byerly, Russel
Mancini, John Mortinger, Abdo Naji, David O'Donnell, Elizabeth Papciak,
Alexander Reyer, Frankie Ross, and Ronald Daily.
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Moku Pahu Gets a Royal Aloha In Honolulu
The governor of Hawaii and
numerous business and civic leaders
were on hand to give the SIUmanned Moku Pahu a warm wel
come when the new ship arrived in
Hawaii last month.
They had spent weeks preparing
an elaborate ceremony for the vessel
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in appreciation of the good that it The health of Hawaii's economy
is expected to do for Hawaii's depends in large part upon its ability
economy.
to export sugar crop.
In his welcoming speech, GovDuring the ceremony a beautifully
emorOeorge Arioshi noted the fact carved wooden image of Kanaloa,
that the ITB Moku Pahu will carry the Hawaiian god of the ocean, was
Hawaiian raw sugars from terminals presented to representatives from
in Honolulu to the US mainland. Pacific Gulf Marine, the company
that ovy^ns the
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world's largest bulk sugar carrier.
measures 639 feet and has a 36,000
ton capacity. It is the largest ocean
going integrated tug barge ever built
in the United states.
It will give SIU seamen another
job opportunity in the expanding
US-Pacific trade. This trade is
expected to increase dramatically
in the upcoming years, providing
many new jobs for American
seamen.
Chief Cook Ed Singleton and Chief Steward Robert Spencer pose
for the LOG photographer in the galley of the Moku Pahu.
The Moku Pahu arrives at the Port of Honolulu just in time for the
big celebration in its honor.
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NAVIGATION
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SHLSS. It'll help you earn what you need to
know to earn tfre Ocean Operator Over 200
Miles License. And that means a better job and
more money!
Contact your SIU Field Representative, or fill
out the application in this issue of the Log.
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SIU officials meet with the Ship's Committee of the newly launched
Moku Pahu to exchange ideas. Pictured above are SIU Patrolman
Kevin Thatcher, who is stationed in Honolulu; QMED Jimmy Slay;
Chief Steward and Ship's Secretary, Robert Spencer; QMED/
Pumpman Dave Norris, who is the Engine Delegate; Ray Todd, bosun
and Ship's Chairman; and George McCartney, SIU West Coast vice
president.
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BY JOE SCLTERI
Twas The Night Before Christmas
On The Converted 1-2
The Crew Was All Sleeping
There Was Nothing To Do
Our Stockings Were Hung
Round The Boiler With Care
—Not For No Special Reason
Cept They Dry Better There
I Was Lying Half Dozing
AM Snug In My Rack
The Porthole Was Open
A Breeze On My Back
When All Of A Sudden
Much To My Surprise
I Heard Sleigh Bells Ringing
Somewhere In The Skys
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I'm Cracking, I Thought
Or Dreaming, Or Both
But As I Lay Thinking
A Hearty Voice Spoke,
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Not Like Pictures I'd Seen
With Tattoos And An Earring
Now What Could This Mean
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I'm The Seafaring Santa!
He Said With A Grin
Then Tossed Me A Gallon
Of Beefeaters Gin
He Yelled "Call All Hands"
We've Got Partying To Do
I've Still Got One Ship
Off The Coast Of Peru
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So I Ran Down Below
Calling All Who Could Hear,
Someone Threw A Boot,
Caught Me Right On The Ear
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The Ship Was A Wreck,
With Quart Jugs-And Seamen
Sprawled Ail Over The Deck
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"On Bonnie, On Rubbie
On Suzy, On Jean
On Roxie, On Trixie
On Sweet Genevieve
On Cindy, On Lois
On Gertrude! On Mae
That Don't Sound Like No Reindeer
I Thought With Dismay
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I Jumped To The Porthole
Not Believing My Eyes
A 40 Foot Sailboat
Was Filling The Sky .
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And Up In The Heavens
Just A Speck To My Eye
The Sailboat Was Sailing
Off Into The Sky
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Christmas Morning Was Quiet
Aboard Our Lost Ship
The Crew Wasn't Talking
They Were All Very Sick
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Could Remember That Night
Except That They Partyed
And Had A Big Fight
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There Might Have Been Girls
t Was Decked Real Fancy
But Their Memory Was Hazy
With Pine Trees And Bright Light And They Finally Decided
And 11 Cute Ladies
I Was Most Likely Crazy...
Dressed In Red And In White
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And Now I Will Leave You
And Out On The Bow
My Story Is Through
Just As Fat As Could Be
But Before I Get Going
Stood St. Nick And An Elf
Let Me Say This To You
They Were Checking Our Lee
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If You're Out On The Ocean
And Once They Decided
On That Night Of The Year
With The Wink Of An Eye
And Your Being Forgotten
They Dropped To The Ocean
Is Your One Biggest Fear
Right Out Of The Sky
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Just Remember Who's Coming
I Ran Up The Stairwell
And You Will See I Was Right
And Right Out On.Deck
Now Merry Christmas My Brother
They Were Having Some Trouble '
And To AM-A Good Night.
Making Fast To Our Wreck
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So I Dropped Them A Laddder
And I Lowered A Line
And Pulled Up 4 Seabags
And 9 Cases Of Wine
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spokesman for the maritime industry
who learned about the Merchant
Marine by writing for the Seafarers
LOG, announced his retirement as
Executive Director of the American
Maritime Association.
Maskin has been director of the
American Maritime Association
since 1967. During his fifteen year
tenure he has spoken out on behalf
of the maritime industry and Amer
ican seamen. He campaigned deligently to protect this nation's cargo
preference laws and the Jones Act.
— Maskin worked closely with the
late Paul Hall and the rest of the
indus^ in fighting for enactment
of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970,
an important piece of legislation that
has led to the construction of nearly
100 merchant vessels under the U.S.
flag.
Al Maskin worked for the Sea
farers Intenational Union from 1953
until 1967. He was a protege of Herb
Brand, former Editor of the LOG,
who now serves as Chairman of the
Board of Transportation Institute, a
Washington-based non-profit orga
nization formed to promote maritime
research and development, md the
full employment of American-flag
sUpping.
As Assistant Editor of tfigLOG; ^
Maskin learned about the maritime
industry from the ground up. He
leamed about maritime's legislative
agenda: the need to protect American shipping and American jobs
through rigorous enforcement of this
nation's cargo preference laws and
the Jones Act.
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maritime industry. I was particularly
gratified to work with the late Paul
Hall who contributed as much as
anyone to the development of a
strong American-flag Merchant
Marine."
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New Classes Starting
Assistant Cook
Cook and Baker
Chief Cook
Chief Steward
Sign Up Now!
Contact your SIU Field
Representative, or fill
out the application in
this issue of the Log.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and senior
ity are protected exclusively by the contracts between the
Union and the employers. Get to know your shipping
rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available
in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation
of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the
contracts between the Union and the employers, notify
the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return re
ceipt requested. The proper address for this is:
Angus "Red" Campbell
Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board
5201 Auth Way and Britannia Way
Prince Georges County
Camp Springs, Md. 20746
Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to
you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union
or to the Seafarers Appeals Board.
CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avail
able in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages
and conditions under which you work and live aboard
your ship or boat. Know your contract rights, as well as
your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper
sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGA
TIONS. Copies of the SIU constitution are available in
all Union halls. All members should obtain topics of this
constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its con
tents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation
by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc.,
as well as all other details, then the member so affected
should immediately notify headquarters.
FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constiturion of the SIU
Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes
specific provision for safeguarding the membership's
money and Union finances. The constitution requires a
detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three
months, which are to be submitted to the membership by
the Secretary-Treasurer. A quarterly finance committee
of rank and file members, elected by the membership,
makes examination each quarter of the finances of the
Union and reports fully their findings and recommenda
tions. Members of this committee may make dissenting
reports, specific recommendations and separate findings.
TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic,
Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered
in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund
agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees
in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union
and management representatives and their alternates. All
expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made
only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust
fund financial records are available at the headquarters of
the various trust funds.
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Maskin was later named Director
of Research and Legislation for the
SIU as well as vice-president in
charge of the Washington office,
Reflecting on his long career, he
told a writer from the LOG that "the
fourteen years wth the SIU provided
EQUAL RIGHTS. All members are guaranteed equal
rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These
rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in
the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the
employers. Consequently, no member may be discrimi
nated against because of race, creed, color, sex and na
tional or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is
denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should
notify Union headquarters.
IlKlllllllinil
patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails
to protect your contract rights properly, contact the
nearest SIU port agent.
EDITORIAL POLICY —THE LOG. The Log has
traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving
the political purposes of any individual in the Union,
officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing
articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective
membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed
by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings
in all constitufional ports. The responsibility for Log
policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of
the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board
may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to
carry out this responsibility.
PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid
to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an
official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circum
stances should any member pay any money for any reason
unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone
attempts to require any such payment be made without
supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a
payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he'
should not have been required to make such payment, this
should immediately be reported to Union headquarters.
16 / LOG / December 1982
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SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION
—SPAD. SPAD is a separate segregated fund. Its pro
ceeds are used to further its objects and purposes includ
ing, but not limited to, furthering the political, social and
economic interests of maritime workers, the preservation
and furthering of the American Merchant Marine with
improved employment opportunities for seamen and
boatmen and the advancement of trade union concepts.
In connection with such objects, SPAD supports and
contributes to political candidates for elective office. All
contributions are voluntary. No contribution may be
solicited or refceived because of force, job discrimination,
financial reprisal, or threat of such conduct, or as a con
dition of membership in the Union or of employment. If
a contribution is made by rea.son of the above improper
conduct, notify the Seafarers Union or SPAD by certified
mail within 30 days of the contribution for investigation
and appropriate action and refund, if involuntary. Sup
port SPAD to protect and further your economic, poli
tical and social interests, and American trade union
concepts.
If at any time a member feds that any of the above rights have
been violated, or that he has been denied hb constitntlonal right of
aoxm to Union records or informathm, he shouMimmrdiatriynottfy
SIU President Frank Drozak at Headquarters by certified inaB»
return receipt requested. Dieaddras is 5201 Auth VMiy and Britanda
Way, Prince Georges County^ Camp Springi, Md. 20746.
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Edd Emery uses his experience
as a merchant seaman to capture on
film those beautiful sights and spe-
cial moments that are the domain
of every seafarer or world traveller,
Emerj^ who sailed for both the
A playful thought-provoking picture of a man and his child in New York.
Co-Sponsors of Boggs Bill
Members of Congress who
co-sponsored the "Competi
tive Shipping and Shipbuiiding
Revitaiization Act of 1982,"
(H.R. 6979), written by Rep.
Lindy Boggs (D-LA) are:
Paul Trible, Republican, Virginia
Adam Benjamin, Democrat, Indiana
Charles E. Bennett, Democrat,
Florida
David Bonior, Democrat, Wash
ington
Charles Dougherty, Republican,
Pennsylvania
Trent Lett, Republican, Mississippi
Harold E. Fbrd, Democrat, Ten
nessee
Joseph M. Gaydos, Democrat,
, Pennsylvania
Tom Hartnett, Republican, South
Carolina
Arlan Stangeland, Republican,
Minnesota
Charles Wilson, Democrat, Texas
Don Young, Republican, Alaska
Leo Zeferetti, Democrat, New York
Barbara Mikulski, Democrat,
Maryland
Gene Snyder, Republican, Ken
tucky
Glenn Anderson, Democrat, Cali
fornia
John Murtha, Democrat, Pennsyl
vania
Frank Annunzio, Democrat, Illinois
• Jean Ashbrook, Republican, Ohio
Jack Brooks, Democrat, Texas
Phillip Burton, Democrat, California
Norm D'Amours, Democrat, New
Hampshire
Ron Dellums, Democrat, California
Norman Dicks, Democrat, Wash
ington
Frank Guarini, Democrat, New
Jersey
Tony Hall, Democrat, Ohio
Cecil Heftel, Democrat, Hawaii
Dale E. Kildee, Democrat, Michigan
Mike Lowry, Democrat, Washington
Nick Mavroules, Democrat, Mas
sachusetts
Joe Moakley, Democrat, Massa
chusetts
Bill Nichols, Democrat, Alabama
Mary Rose Oakar, Democrat, Ohio
Don Pease, Democrat, Ohio
Mel Price, Democrat, lllinios
Matthew Rinaldo, f?epub//can, New
Jersey
Pete Stark, Demobrat, California
SIU and the NMU before getting a
job at the Erie Lackawana ferries
at Hoboken, recently had a one man
exhibit at the Citicorp bank at the
World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Emery contends that his experience
as a merchant seaman has given him
a perspective that affects his whole
life and extends even to his art. The
photos at the Citicorp exhibition
back him up.
Some are pretty as a picture-card;
others are eerily beautiful. Emery
shot the Parthenon at twilight, when
red and purple skies set the classic
ruins in a translucent light that made
them seem both fragile and Sternal.
Others pictures were of Yugoslovia, Germany, Italy, San Fran
cisco, New York, and even the piers
at Hoboken. The exhibit attracted
normally rushed bank customers
who interrupted their hectic Man
hattan schedules to look at the
exhibit and ruminate.
Emery's pictures are subtle yet
forceful. A peaceful cafe scene in
South Africa was titled "A Study
in White." A picture of a beautiful
young woman with gold earings and
flashing white teeth was called
"Bed-Stuy Princess."
Edd Emery's commitment to
photography is just one more
example of the opportunities open
to se^en. Merchant seamen are
travellers who get to see things that
other people don't. Edd Emery made
good use of that opportunity.
Other members express their
commitment to the sea in other
ways. Some write poetry or short
stories, others use the time they have
onboard Ship to read or upgrade,
others become the best damn
Steward or QMED that they can.
Everyone has a special talent or'
vision. The lucky ones develop it.
Lyie Williams, Republican, Ohio
Bob Young, Democrat, Missouri
Edward P. Boland, Democrat,
Massachusetts
Robert W. Davis, Republican,
Michigan
Jack Edwards, Republican, Ala
bama
M. M. Heckler, Republican, Masschusetts
Marjorie S. Holt, Republican,
Maryland
Thomas A. Luken, Democrat, Ohio
Bob McEwen, Republican, Ohio
Toby Mohet, Democrat, Connecticut
Joseph P. Addabbo, Democrat,
New York
Douglas Applegate, Democrat,
Ohio
Tom Bevill, Democrat, Alabama
William Clay, Democrat, Missouri
Tom Coelho, Democrat, California
M. M. Dymally, Democrat, California
Roy Dyson, Democrat, Maryland
Dennis E. Eckart, Democrat, Ohio
Robert W. fdgar. Democrat, Penn
sylvania
Barney Frank, Democrat, Massa
chusetts
Tom LantoSr Democrat, California
Pirren J. Mitchell, Democrat,
Maryland
G. V. Montgotnery, Democrat, Mis
sissippi
Ronald M. MottI, Democrat, Ohio
James L. Nelligan, Republican,
Pennsylvania
Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida
Al Swift, Democrat, Washington
Daniel K. Akaka, Democrat, Hawaii
William M. Brodhead, Democrat,
Michigan
Lawrence J. DeNardls, Republican,
Connecticut
Julian C. Dixon, Democrat, Cali
fornia
Vic Fazio, Democrat, California
Dennis M. Hertel, Democrat, Mich
igan
Carroll Hubbard Jr., Democrat,
Kentucky
William J. Hughes, Democrat, New
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Toby Roth, Republican, Wisconsin
Richard C. Shelby, Democrat, Ala
bama
Bruce E Vento, Democrat, Minne
sota
James H. Weaver, Democrat,
Oregon
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Entitled the Old and the New, this picture by Edd Emery captures the
soaring majesty of the San Francisco skyline.
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The following deep sea men and
women are active, dues paying SIU
members. Yd, the Seafarers Data
Center has no address for them.
An up-to-date address is essential
if you want to receive proper pay
ment on any Claims and if you want
to be kept informed about important
developments in your Union,
whether they be in your Seafarers
Welfare and Pension Plan benefits,
or in your contract.
Please check the list below, which
is arranged alphabetically, and if
your name appears, write and give
us your present home address. Just
send it, with your Social Security
number and Union book number,
to: Data Center, Seafarers Inter
national Union, 5201 Auth Way,
Camp Springs, Md. 20746.
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ABOUBAKER, S.A.
AHMED, A.M.
AIELLO, A.
ALBAUGH, M.K.
ALDAPE, P.
ALEXANDER, H.H.
ALLDRIDGE, TA.
ALOFOE, M.L.
ALSAEDI, S.T
ALTAHAIR S.M.
ANDERSON, 0.
ANDERSON, S.J.
ANZAO, C.
AQUI, P.
AQUINO, N.
ARNOLD, G.
AYIWARD,I
BAEZ, A.L.
BAIZ, M.D.
BAKER, P.L.
BANDA, G.
BASAS, M.V
BECKER, LW.
BELCHER, W.B.
BENGTSON, J.
BENNETT A.
BERG, R.R.
BIDDLE, PR.
BiSSONETTE, J.W
BLAND, J.
BONGOLAN, S.
BOOTH, J.C.
BOULILIER, P.M.
BRADLEY D.E
BRISCOE, E.
BRISTOL, B.
BROWN, N.A.
BUSH, E.
CAIN, E.J.
CALADEK, R.
CAMPBELL, D..
CARDILLO, G.
CARDWELL, X
CARLSON, YO.
CARREON, J.E.
CARRILLO, FA.
CARTER, C.
CARVER, S.L.
CASTILLO, A.A.
CENTENO, L.
CHCK, A.B.
CHOY D.J.
CHRISTIAN, B.
CLARK, FR.
COCHRAN, G.N.
COHEN. F
COLEMAN, A.L.
COLIVAS, S.
CONNOLLY W.F
COPHER, A.R.
COSTA,I
CUMUN, J.
CRUM, R.L.
CRUZ, E.D.
CURTIS, M.A.
CURTS, L.D.
DARANDA, S.
DARTER, C.
DAVILA, D.
DEANE, R.A.'
DECKER, S.
DELACRUZ, B.
DELANEY O.
DEMELLO, K.E.
DENZER, N.K.
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DIAZ, R.
DIETHELM, J.R.
DIMAITY V
DIMITRIOU, P.
DOUGLAS, K.
DOW, L.C.
DUBOIS, G.
DURHAM, C.
EKERN, K.A.
ELONZAE, R.M.
EMANUEL, A.
EMANUEL, A.
EPEDI, A.
EVANGELISTA, R.
FAY, J.
FELTZ.J.
FONTAINE, H.
FRAM, R.S.
FRANKS, R.B.
FRASER, C.H.
GABRIELSEN, C.E.
GAGNON, D.A.
GALENTINE, J.J.
GAMBLE, E.G.
GANON, L.
GARCIA, R.
GARY, E.
GAVIERES, 0.
GEHRING, P.C.
GERONIMO,I
GERSSING, G.I
GHANI, S.
GIES, RJ.
GIFFORD, D.
GONZALEZ, C.
GRANT K.R.
GRAVES, R.E.
GREEN, S.
GRIFFEY R.B.
GROVER. W.
GUNN, N.D.
HABERWETH, J.
HANBACK, B.J.
HANNAH, C.M.
HASTING, D.
HAYES, C.W.
HAYNES, K.E.
HEE, L.
HERNANDEZ, A.
HESS, G.
HICKS, 1.
HILL,D.
HILL, E.J.
H1MES,C.Z.
HOFFMAN, G.
HOLLINGS, C.
HOMOCHS, H.
HONG, S.W
HOPKINS, R.W.
HOSLEYTD.
HOWARD, H.V
HUDDY C.
HUGHES, S.B^
HUMPHREY TE.
HUNTSMAN, R.
HUSIN, M.
HYMAN, G.L.
IRVINE, D.
ISIPLIARELES, D.
JACKSON, M.O.
JENKENS, FJ.
JENNINGS, C.B.
JENNINGS, L.W.
JENULIS, R.G.
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JONES, A.G.
KALENIKINI, J.
KAPAONA, T
KELLY, C.B.
KELLY, C.S.
KENNEDY, K.
KEONY, R.
KIYALUI, L.
KOSTUROS, S.
KRUSE, G.
KURTZMAN, J.
LAMAY J.A.
LAXAMANA, E.B.
LAY H.
LEE, G.
LEE, G.A.
LEE, K.
LEE, K.
LEE, S.C.
LEWIS, J.R.
LOTITO, J.J.
LUCY DLUHRS, D.
LUJAN, M.
LULLOFF L.G.
MACKENZIE, J.
MANN, B.
MARIE, G.J.
MARRINER, J.
MARSHALL, G.
MARTELLA, A.J.
MARTIN, M.D.
MARTIN, S.T
MATHEWSON, T
MATOS, R.
MATSON, J.
MAYNARD, C.
MAYO, W.T
McCLINTOCK, D.
McCLUSKEY, L.
McGUIRE, M.J.
McLAMB, J.
MEDEIROS, D.
MERCER. B.
MEREDITH, D.
MICHAELEDES, C.
MILLER, A.
MILLER, Z.
MITTLER, M.
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MOORE, G.
MUFLIHI, A.S.
NEGASH, A.
NELSON, G.P.
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NOVELLO, S.
NUNEZ, J.A.
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Thts Man Has It All
Job OpportunitiesGreat Pay.
Security.
Get in on today's opportunities in the
SIU contracted fleet. Take the Refrigeration
Systems Maintenance and Operation Course
at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship on February 28. You can earn
it too.
Fill out the application in this issue of the
Log, or see your SIU Field Representative
for more details.
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HARRY LONDEBERG SCHOOL
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Piney Point Maryland
Every Student A Winne>r
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Science Instructor Sandy Schroeder demonstrates the use of a
microscope to Steve Waters from Norfolk and Bruce Robrecht from
PIney Point.
You've probably heard this many
times, and here are some figures to
prove it. The U.S. Department of
Labor reports that the largest
increase in unemployment in 1981
occurred among workers with a high
school diploma or less.
The unemployment rate for
people without a high school
diploma as of March 1981 was
16.7%. High school graduates did
a bit better with an unemployment
rate of 10.3%.
People with one to three years of
college had an unemployment rate
of 6.9%, and college graduates did
the best with a 3.2% unemployment
rate.
As you can see, as the educational
level goes up, the percent of unem
ployment goes down. It seems that
a good education is a good shield
against unemployment. The good
news is that you can do something
about it.
The Academic Department at the
Seafarers Harry Lundebei-g School
of Seamanship offers classes to stu
dents of all educational levels. From
basic reading and math skills to
community college level courses,
the academic programs are available
Mary Coyle discusses test taking techniques with Roberto Roque
from New York.
Reading Instructor Donna Curtis helps trainee Roderick Smith prepare
for the lifeboat examination.
to help you improve yourself. Pre
sented here are two of the academic
programs available to all SIU
members who want to help them
selves to a better education.
Adult Basic
Education ^
The Adult Basic Education (ABE)
Program at SHLSS offers basic
reading and math classes to students
who have weak skills in those areas.
If you know of an SIU brother or
sister who can't read or has problems
reading, do him or her a favor and
tell them about the ABE program
at SHLSS. Here's how the program
works.
Seafarers who are coming to
SHLSS to upgrade in a vocational
course can come to school four to
six weeks before their vocational
course to work on improving their
reading and math skills. By working
on these skills before they get into
a vocational class their chances of
being successful and passing the
vocational class are improved.
After completing the ABE pro
gram, the seafWer can then enter
his or her vocational class with more
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John Pearson from New Jersey gets additional instruction In mathemetics from Academic Instructor Roger Francisco.
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Rebecka Kastner teaches GED English to Kenneth McHoul.
Education Is the Key
Continuedfrom Preceding Pose
confidence and better skills.
Seafarers who are interested in
entering the ABE program just have
to check the adult basic education
block on their upgrading application
form. Adult basic education is listed
under the All Departments section
of the application. The Academic
Department will then contact the
seafarer and schedule him or her to
enter ABE two, four or six weeks
before the vocational upgrading
class starts.
Classes in Adult Basic Education
are individualized. That means that
students get lots of help from their
Teachers and the teachers will
develop a program especially for
the needs of each student.
Students can work on a variety
of skills: reading comprehension,
vocabulary improvement, spelling
and study skills. These skills will
help in both upgrading classes and
in the student's personal life. Basic
skills are becoming more and more
important on the job and in life.
reading and math, the GED program
is available. The GED or high school
equivalency program is designed for
students who would like to get their
Maryland State High School
Diploma.
The GED exam, which is given
by official testers from the Maryland
Board of Education, is a five-part
two-day exam. The five tests are in
the areas of English, Math, Science,
Social Studies and Reading;
To apply for the GED program,
just clip out the coupon from the
GED advertisement in the Log and
mail it to the Academic Department,
SHLSS or drop us a line in the mail.
You will receive a GED Pre-test in
math, reading and English. The
results of the Pre-test will be used
to find your strengths and weak
nesses so the teachers can design a
program for you. Again, courses
are individualized, and the teachers
will give you all the help you need.
The idea of going back to school
scares some people or brings back
bad memories of past failures. Don't
let these hang-ups keep you from
High School
gaining a better education. At
Program
SHLSS, the Academic programs are
For those seafarers who feel that geared to success, and each student
they already have the basic skills in can be a winner.
Trainee Randolph Antonio Liverpool gets some tutoring In Social
Studies from instructor Terry Sharpe.
Through a joint effort of the
Crowley Maritime Corporation and
the Seafarers International Union,
a special training program to
upgrade the skills of Crowley tank
ermen is taking place at the Seafarers
Harry Lundeberg School of Sea
manship.
Prei^aration for this seminar began
last summer and the first class started
in October.
Crowley Maritime, which
employs about 200 tankermen, is
sending their experienced men from
California and Florida to attend this
four-day in-depth upgrading pro
gram.
The seminar runs from 7:30 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. One instructor is pro
vided by Crowley Maritime Cor
poration and one instructor is pro
vided by SHLSS.
The program concentrates on
procedures-and guidelines for
Crowley tankermen. This includes
operating tank barges, character
istics of petroleum products, cargo
planning and calculations, and
filling out documents properly.
Emphasis is placed on personal
safety, care and maintenance of
equipment, and protection of the
environment.
The seminar, usually attended by
ten students, allows the tankermen
to discuss problems and solutions
with each other and with the
instructors.
The Crowley Maritime Corpo
ration plans on -sending all their
tankermen in Jacksonville and on
the West Coast as well as their
management personnel through a
series of training and upgradiilg
programs designed jointly by
SHLSS and Crowley to improve the
work and managerial skills of
Crowley's employees.
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Crowley Maritime tankermen attending the upgrading program at
SHLSS are, left to right, Richard Perkins, John H. Jolly Sr., Larry
Isbell, Jim Stevens and Dan Guerln. In the back row are Tom Soule,
Tom McCausey, Steve Palmer, Ralph Holnaky and Dale Rausch, SHLSS
instructor.
SHLSS Instructor Dale Rausch shows Tankerman Larry
Isbell how to correctly adjust a gas mask.
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Upgrading Is a Family Affair
With all the seafarers who go
through our school it's uncommon
enough to find a father and son
attending SHLSS together, but to
have a mother and son join us is
quite an event.
Corliss. Jane MacRury is
upgrading in the Cook and Baker
'"Program while her son Mark is
completing his GED requirements
for a high school diploma.
It all started when Mrs. MacRurys' oldest son Timothy went
through the SHLSS Trainee Program
in 1976 and shipped out as a cook
on a tug in Algonac.
Through the influence of Tim
othy, SIU Union Representative
Byron Kelly and Fleet Captain
William Zuccolo, the MacRurys
decided to go to sea.
Mark MacRury joined the SIU in
1979 as a deck hand and Mrs.
MacRury joined in 1980 as a cook.
They both work on tugs and ship
out of Algonac. Mrs. MacRuiy says,
"It's like cooking for a big family
and I love it."
This is the first time for the
MacRurys to take courses at SHLSS
and they're quite impressed. Says
Mrs. MacRury, "This place is really
•sss. Mark MacRury and his mother Corliss Jane special and the teachers are great!"
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Raffle Asclonne displays his ship "Sea Gypsy" which he «
designed and buiit out of matchsticks.
Raffaele Ascionne: Mode/ Ship Builder §
Seafarer Crafts Ship Models With
Match Sticks and Patience
In the October 1982 issue of the
LOG we featured Raffaele Ascionne
as he began building the "Sea
Gypsy." He has since completed his
model ship and dedicated it to the
SIU.
This is not the first ship that Raf
faele has built but it's been the most
challenging. Working without any
formal plans or directions, he's
designed the "Sea Gypsy" in his
mind and moulded it with his hands.
'This ship," says Raffaele, "is
aboutone-half
17th century design
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and about half modem design." It's
built entirely out of kitchen match
sticks, and glue. Even the guns, of
which there are over 100, were hand
carved out of match sticks. To com
plete the ship, Raffaele used over
5,000 matchbooks, untotaled hours
of work, and unimaginable patience.
Raffaele began the ship in Sep
tember of 1982 when he entered the
SHLSS Chief Cook Upgrading
program. To put his spare time to
good use he took advantage of the
equipment and materials at the
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SHLSS Arts and Crafts Center.
The Center is designed to offer
instmction and materials to complete
a variety of crafts. A seafarer can
leam to work with wood, metal,
glass, leather, or even the art of
scrimshaw. Teachers are available
to demonstrate, consult, or instruct
on individual projects.
With Raffaele Ascionne, equip
ment, material and a place to work
are the necessary items for a skilled
and creative craftsman. His work
speaks for itself.
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Upgrading Course Schedule
Through March 1983
Programs Geared to Improve Job Skills
And Promote U.S. Maritirne Industry
Qourse schedules for January through March 1983 are
announced by the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Sea
manship.Once again,the course offerings are designed to upgrade
the skills of SlU Seafarers and Boatmen, and to promote America's
maritime industry by providing it with the best trained and most
highly skilled workers in the maritime world.
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For convenience of the membership, the course schedule is'
separated into four categories: engine department courses;.
deck department courses; and steward department courses.
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The starting and completion dates for all courses are also
listed.
Inland Boatmen and deep sea Seafarers who are preparing
to upgrade are advised to enroll in the courses of their choice
as early as possible. Although every effort will be made to help
every member, classes will be necessarily limited in size—so
sign up early.
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Class schedules^may be changed to reflect membership
demands."
SlU Field Representatives in ail ports will assist members
in preparing applications.
Engine Upgrading Uourses
Course
Check-in
Date
Completion
Date
QMED, Any Rating (30)
January 17
April 7
Pumproom
Maintenance &
Operations (24)
February 15
March 25
Automation (24)
March 28
April 22
Marine Electronics (15)
January 4
March 14
February 11
April 22-
Refrigeration Systems,
Maintenance & Opera
tion (20)
February 28
April8
FiremanA/Vatertender,
Oiler (25)
January 17
February 25
Welding (8)
February 28
March 25
Conveyorman (20)
March 28
April 22
Diesel Regular (18)
January 10
February 4
Diesel Scholarship (12)
January 10
February 25
Third Assistant
Engineer (20)
January 4
March 11
Tankerman (10)
January 31
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First Class Pilot (10)
January 4
February 18
Mate/Master Freight &
Towing Vessels (15)
February 28
April 22
Towboat Operator
Scholarship (12)
January 10
February 25
Abie Seaman (18)
February 15
March 25
Quartermaster (14)
January 4
February 11
Third Mate (14)
January 17
March 25
Celestial Navigation (14) February 28
March 28
March 25
April 15
Lifeboat (10)
February 11
April 8
January 31
March 28
Steward Upgrading Courses
The Steward programs are open-ended on starting dates
and course length. Following are the upgrading courses offered
at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship:
Assistant Cook
Cook and Baker
Chief Cook
Chief Steward
Towboat Cook
Open-ended
Open-ended
Open-ended
Open-ended
Open-ended
Frank and Keiko Reminisce
Frank Boyne, who retired this year as SlU Port Agent in Yokohama looks
over old issues of the Seafarers Log with his wife Keiko during a visit to
the Paul Hall Maritime Library in Piney Point last summer.
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�Directory of Ports
Frank Drozak, President
Ed Turner, Exec, vice president
Joe DIGIorglo, secretary-treasurer
Leon Hall, vice president
Angus "Red" Campbell, vice president
Mike Sacco, vice president
Joe Sacco, vice president
George McCartney, vice president
HEADQUARTERS
Dispatchers Report for Deep
NOV. 1-30, 1982
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Port
Gloucester
New \t)rk
Philadelphia ..
Baltimore
Norfolk ......
Mobile
New Orleans ..
Jacksonville...
San Francisco.
Wilmington ..;
Seattle
Puerto Rico ...
Houston.
Piney Point ...
Totals
Trip
Reliefs
••REGISTERED DN BEACH
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
DECK DEPARTMENT
489
0
2
11
11
71
30
41
• 20
41
20
52
0
392
10
39
1
3 •
7
2
18
11
15
13
19
4
28
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Port
Gloucester
New 'ibrk
Philadelphia ;.
Baltimore
Norfolk ......
Mobile
New Orleans ..
Jacksonville....
San Francisco.
Wilmington ...
Seattle
Puerto Rico..,
Houston......
Piney Point ...
Totals — ...
3
73
0
7
12
18
51
23
28
6
42
16
52
0
331
2
28
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5
3
Port
Gloucester....
New MDrk ...'..
•Philadelphia ..
Baltimore
Norfolk
Mobile ........
New Orleans . ^
Jacksonville...
San Francisco.
Wilmington ...
Seattle
Puerto Rico ...
Houston
Piney Point ...
Totals
0
45
2
..6
10
13
44
18
23
9
21
4
23
0
218
3
11
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3
1
4
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22
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7
4
4
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Gloucester.....
New Mark
Philadelphia ..
Baltimore —
Norfolk
Mobile
New Orleans ..
Jacksonville...
San Francisco.
Wilmington ...
Seattle
Puerto Rico ...
Houston
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Totals
TOTAL SHIPPED
All Groups
Class A
Class B Class C
*TOTAL RECISTERED
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
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9
5
16
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11
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108
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6
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7
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0
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2
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
13
0
27
0
0
0
1
0
19
0
3
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0
57
4
0
9
26
0
35
5
0
6
7
0
36
21
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0
15
7
0
32
41
0
9
0
156
331
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ENGINE DEPARTMENT
3
0
1
0
9
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0
0
0
0
0
4
0
10
7
0
0
5
3
0
32
18
15
0
9
30
1
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8
4
0
5
23
0
13
4
0
23
21
5
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0
88
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213
STEWARD DEPARTMENT
0
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6
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22
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72
21
35
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
3315 Liberty St. 32206
(904) 353-0987
JERSEY CITY, N.J.
99 Montgomery St. 07302
(201)435-9424
MOBILE, Ala.
1640 Dauphin Island Pkwy. 36605
(205)478-0916
NEW ORLEANS, La.
630 Jackson Ave. 70130
(504) 529-7546
NEW YORK, N.Y
675 4 Ave., Brooklyn 11232
(212)499-6600
NORFOLK, Va.
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115 3 St. 23510
(804)622-1892
PADUCAH, Ky.
225 S. 7 St. 42001
(502)443-2493
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
2604 S. 4St. 19148
(215)336-3818
PINEY POINT Md.
St. Mary's County 20674
(301) 994-0010
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.
350 Fremont St. 94105
(415) 543-5855
SANTURCE, PR.
1057 Fernandet; Juncos,
Stop 16 00907
(809) 725-6960
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5201 Auth Way
Camp Springs, Md. 20746
(301) 899-0675
ALGONAC, Mich.
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520 St. Clair River Dr. 48001
(313)794-4988
BALTIMORE, Md.
1216 E. Baltimore St. 21202
(301)327-4900
CLEVELAND, Ohio
1290 Old River Rd. 44113
(216) 621-5450
COLUMBUS, Ohio
2800 South High St.,
RO. Box 0770, 43207
(614)497-2446
DULUTH, Minn.
705 Medical Arts Building 55802
(218)722-4110
GLOUCESTER, Mass.
11 Rogers St. 01930
(617)283-1167
HONOLULU, Hawaii
707 Alakea St. 96813
(808) 537-5714
HOUSTON, Tex.
1221. Pierce St. 77002
(713)659-5152
Shipping in the month of November was up from the month of October. A totai of 1,182 jobs were
shipped in November on SiU contracted deep sea vesseis. Of the 1,182 jobs shipped, 747 jobs or about 63
percent were taken by "A" seniority members. The rest were filled by "B" and "C" seniority people. There
were 52 trip relief jobs shipped. Since the trip relief program began on April 1, 1982, a totai of 275 relief
jobs have been shipped.
SEATTLE, Wash.
2505 1 Ave. 98121
(206) 623-4334
ST LOUIS, Mo.
4581 Gravois Ave. 63116
(314)752-6500
TOLEDO, Ohio
935 Summit St. 43604
(419)248-3691
WILMINGTON, Calif.
408 Avalon Blvd. 90744
(213)549-4000
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St. Lawrence Seaway Closes Dec. 15
The St. Lawrence Seaway was supposed to officially close for the
winter season on Dec. 15 but the closing could have bedn delayed if
the weather remained mild.
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The winter closing deadline was set so ocean-bound vessels could
know when to clear the Seaway to avoid spending the winter in the
ice-clogged waterway.
Soviet May Buy Only 2.5M Tons of U.S. Grain
It is reported that the Soviet Union may buy only 2.5-million tons of
the 1982 U.S. wheat crop through June 1983, according to the Inter
national Wheat Council.
Experts say they doubt even if the U.S.S.R. intends to purchase the
bare minimum quantity of wheat permitted under the current U.S.
Russian grain agreement. The agreement allows the Soviets to buy
3-miilion tons each of wheat and corn from October 1982 to September
1983.
The reason for the buying shortfall could either be purely political or
the Russians could cite scab damage in the 1982 crop as an excuse
to back down on their 1982-1983 purchases.
Though the Soviet Union needs to buy more than 15 million tons of
wheat in 1982-1983, they can buy most of it from the European Economic
Community, Canada and the Argentines.
Tenn^Tomblgbee Canal Cost Battle Begins
Backers of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a $1.8 billion barge
canal under construction, began their appropriation's battle late last
month in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A top backer of the project. Rep. Tom Bevill (D-Ala.) said the canal
is so near completion that halting construction would cost more than
continuing with it.
A principal critic. Rep. Bob Edgar (D.-Pa.) said that House foes of
the controversial canal hope to trim the $186-million appropriation for
the project to $86 million and ask the states of Alabama and Mississippi
to pay more of the construction costs.
Coast Guard Requires Lakes Radio Beacons
The U.S. Coast Guard recently issued a proposed rule which would
require that small passenger vessels plying the Great Lakes, lifeboats
and liferafts on other Lakes ships and certain coastwise vessels sailing
the Lakes, be equipped with "emergency positions" indicating radio
beacons.
The beacons radio signals would alert rescuers to a casualty.
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Pride or Spirit of Texas to Sail to Egypt
From Dec. 20 to Dec. 30, the bulkers SS Pride of Texas or the SS
Spirit of Texas (Titian Navigation) will sail from the port of Galveston
to the ports of Alexandria-Port Said, Egypt with 28,500 metric tons of
bagged wheat flour.
LASH Button Gwinnett Also Goes to Egypt
From Dec. 25 to Jan. 15, the LASH Button Gwinnett (Waterman)
will sail from a Gulf Coast port to Egypt with a cargo of 5,000 metric
tons of bagged wheat flour.
Stonewall Jackson Heading for the Nile Delta
From Jan. 5 to Jan. 15, the LASH Stonewa/i Jackson (Wfeiterman)
will sail from the port of New Orleans to a port in Egypt with a cargo
of 5,000 metric tons of bagged wheat flour.
Christmas Tlrees at Sea
The largest load of Christmas trees ever carried on one vessel—
about 162,000 firs, sailed from Seattle Nov. 27 aboard the Matsoii
Navigation Co. containership h/fanuiani bound for Hawaii. The trees,
mostly Douglas firs, were cut from the forests of Washington and Oregon.
The Manulani, as Hawaii's "Christmas Tree Ship", will carry the trees
in 244 24-foot refrigerated containers.
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of the Ship's Committee and other crewmen get together for a photo aboard
the San Pedro (Sea-Land) in Port Eiizabeth, N.J. Standing from ieft are
Engine Deiegate H.R. Weich, Ship's Chairman Biii Veiazquez, lA. Joon,
AB, Secretary-Reporter D.B. Smith, Francesco Rivera, BR, A. Quintana,
OS, Daniei Herrera, cook/baker. Steward Deiegate Ferdinand Prieto, and
Louis Lopez, GSU. Seated center is Deck Deiegate J.B. Osman, and seated
at the tabie with Brother Air is Louis F Rivera, olier.
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DEL SOL (Delta Steamship Lines),
November 7—Chairman George Annis;
Secretary William R Kaiser; Educational
Director Donald Peterson; Deck Dele
gate M. Pell; Engine Delegate R.
Rodgers; Stewards Delegate I. Gray.
A number of disputed OT hours in thedeck and steward departments. There
is $130 in the fund for cassette rnovies.
The chairman reports that there has
been a lack of communications from
Headquarters and elsewhere. There is
also the rumor of a lay-up, but this has
not been confirmed to the Captain by
the company. It has been a very smooth
voyage so far and all have enjoyed the
• bosun's daily cassette movies. Bill
Kaiser wishes to thank all brothers for
a good voyage without the usual messups and fights. And Michael S. Pell
wishes to give the cooks a vote of
thanks for the "pretty good eats." One
minute of silence was observed in
memory our departed brothers and
sisters. Next port: New Orleans.
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portation Corporation), October 3—
Chairman, Recertified Bosun J.A. Mor
rison; Secretary L. Conlon. No disputed
OT. There is $180 in the ship's fund.
The August LOG was received and
reviewed by the crew. The chairman
reported that the crew has had no video
cassettes since September 3, and it
doesn't look like they'll get one until the
beginning of the year. He also noted
the need for fans for the recreation roo'm
and the crew lounge. A vote of thanks
was given from the chief mate to the
S.I.U. crew for a job well done in the
fire and boat drill that was held in
Nogoya, Japan. It showed the Japanese
that we are on the ball. The secretary
gave special thanks to the d^k OS and
AB for keeping the galley clean at night,
and to everyone for keeping the noise
dovyn. Tim Burns got a vote of thanks
from the crew and officers for being chief
cook on one trip. Captain Donohue also
received a vote of thanks for giving the
crew beer and sodas for the BBQs and
the Softball games. Report to the LOG:
"We have only been warming up. That's
why we are 12 games behind the BONTANG BOMBERS. However, we are in
fine tune now and expect to win this
weekend (one win and twelve losses).
It's a good time by all!" A vote of thanks
was given to the steward department
for a job well done. A special minute of
silence was observed for Bill Paulson,
a fine shipmate and true brother. He
will be missed by all. Onward to Bontang, Tobata and Nagoya.
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LNG ARIES (Energy Transportation
Corporation), November 6—Chairman
A.L. "Pete" Waters; Secretary FT.
Motus. No disputed OT reported. There
is $235 in the ship's fund which will be
turned over to the captain for safe
keeping. The chairman reported that
eight crew members will be getting off
when the ship arrives in Tobata,
including the Bosun and Steward. He
also reminded everyone not to smoke
out on deck for safety's sake. The sec
retary reported that some of the money
in the ship's fund will go toward buying
blank tapes to be recorded on the video
machine back in the States. So far, the
Aries library has two. A motion was
made, seconded, and carried to change
the tour of duty onboard the LNG carrier
from 120 days to 125 days in order to
collect vacation pay after getting off the
ship. Crew members were reminded to
keep the lounge area neat and clean.
A vote of thanks was given for the poolside dinner which everybody enjoyed—
and for the variety of goodies provided.
Next port: Arun, Indonesia.
PANAMA (Sea-Land Service).
October 3—Chairman James Davis;
Secretary Norman Johnson; Educa
tional Director Stephen Harrington. No
disputed OT. There is $225 in the ship's
fund which will be kept in the captain's
safe. The secretary will be leaving at
the end of this trip and wishes to thank
all members for their cooperation over
the last six months. Crew members
were reminded about upgrading at
Piney Point; forms are available from
the steward. There has been some dif
ficulty with the air conditioning system,
and the crew want to go on record that
if the air conditioning goes out this trip,
they want lodging. Of note to the LOG
is that the ship's crew donated $75 to
start a new seaman's club in Pusan,
Korea.
SEA-LAND ENDURANCE (SeaLand Service), October 1—Chairman
E. Christiansen; Secretary J. Reed. No
disputed OT. There is $27 in the ship's
fund and $275 in the moyie library fund.
There is also a donation box for the
ship's fund at the payoff by the
patrolman. The chairman reported a
good trip so far. The Coast Guard is
having a fire and boat drill in Seattle
and all crew members are expected to
be present. A new movie machine was
purchased in Yokohama. Each depart
ment should select movies from the list,
and out of a choice of 30, we can prob
ably get 10. A repair list, including
leaking showers, was turned in to the
port steward. New pillows for the crew
would also be welcomed. Next port:
Seattle.'
OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime 0/S
Corporation), October 17—Chairman B.
Swearingen; Secretary S. Brown; Edu
cational Director J. Wall. No disputed
OT. The chairman reported that a new
washing machine is on order. A TV
repairman will meet the ship jn Texas
to install and repair the TV and movie
cassette. There is also a drainage
problem in the crew's laundry room, and
some fans have not been installed. The
Overseas Joyce was laid up in Jack
sonville for a complete renovation. The
captain said that subsistence from this
time in the yard will be paid on the first
payoff. Sam Brown reports to the LOG
that the renovation included all living
quarters, lounges, recreation rooms and
mess halls. They installed new furniture,
paneling, bunks, mattresses, deck tiling,
and drapes (not just port hole curtains)
for each room. They also hung pictures
in most of the rooms, mess halls and
lounges. There was also some talk
about air conditioning the quarters and
renovating the galley, but they got a
charter before the work could be done.
Sam reports that they are on a sailor's
wintertime dream run: Freeport, Texas,
to Freeport, Bahamas—seven-day tur
naround. Expected to arrive in Freeport,
Bahamas, on October 23.
AMBASSADOR (Coordinated Car
ibbean Transport), October 7—
Chairman Robert U. Dillon; Secretary
W.P Goff. No disputed OT. There is $184
in the ship's fund: $20 was sent to the
Seaman's Library in New \brk; $20 was
donated by Huston R. White; and $25
was donated to ^e ship's BBQs by
Randy T. Dale. S.I.U. President Drozak's report was read and posted in the
crew mess hall. The steward spoke on
the need for cooperation in all depart
ments. Report to the LOG: "Next trip
you will have pictures on the BBQs and
the canal .T.. " A vote of thanks was
given to the steward department. One
minute of silence was observed in
memory of our departed brothers and
sisters. Next port: Las Minas.
ARECIBO (Puerto Rican Marine),
October 17—Chairman G. Mattioli;
Secretary H. Galicki; Educational
Director R. Bowman; Deck Delegate R.
Molina; Engine Delegate G. Silva;
Stewards Delegate A. Rubinstein. No
disputed OT. There is $10 in the ship's
fund and $200 in the rnovie fund. The
President's report was read to the
memtrership and discussd. A discussion
was also held on the Boggs Bill HR6979. The chairman stressed the
importance of voting on election day
and of writing to your Congressmen to
support the Boggs Bill which will benefit
all merchant seamen and officers.
Everything is running smoothly. Men
getting off were reminded to clean up
their rooms and turn in their room keys.
The ship will be paying off at the next
port: Elizabeth, N.J.
T.T. BROOKLYN (Anndep Shipping).
October 9—Chairman William MacArthur; Secretary E. Wiggins; Educa
tional Director C. Gard; Deck Delegate
W. Douglas; Engine Delegate C. Merritt;
Stewards Delegate A. Mohamed. No
disputed OT. There is $60 in the ship's
fund. The Brooklyn participated in a
rescue at sea the night of October 7 off
the coast of Monterey, CA. A telegram
of thanks was received from Vice
Admiral Charles E. Larkin, U.S. Coast
Guard, San Franscisco, for the Brook
lyn's help and cooperation in rendering
assistance to the crew of the FN Chris
tina. It was mentioned that all personal
property left aboard by men missing
ship has gone ashore to the agent's
office in Long Beach. The crew
requested more regular ice cream and
fresh pastries at coffee time. Heading
out to Panama, Long Beach and Valdez,
Alaska.
SEA-LAND INDEPENDENCE
(Sea-Land Service), October 3—
Chairman William Mortier; Secretary
Roy R. Thomas; Educational Director
H. Johnson; Deck Delegate Frank Buhl.
Some OT disputed in engine depart
ment. The ship's fund now has $34.50.
The chairman reported that everything
is running smoothly, with no major beefs
reported by department delegates. He
read and posted the communications
from Headquarters and discussed the
importance of the S.PA.D. check-off list
ahd how it helps you and your union.
There was also some discussion at)out
crew and officers using the same
washing machine. All in all, a good trip,
and the steward thanked the crew for
their help. A minute of silence was
observed in memory of our departed
brothers and sisters. Next port: Eliza
beth, N.J.
SEA-LAND VOYAGER (Sea-Land
Service), October 10—Chairman R.
Muny; Secretary S. Wright; Educational
DirectobD. Johnson; Deck Delegate S.
Phillips; Engine Delegate P Lammers.
Some disputed OT in the deck depart
ment. The $35 in the ship's fund will be
transferred to the ship's chairman for
safekeeping. A report by the chairman
indicated that application forms for
benefits and upgrading at Piney Point
are available on the ship. He also dis
cussed the importance of donating to
S.PA.D. A vote of thanks was given to
the fine job done by the steward
department.
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14—Chairman Sven Jansson; Secre
tary E.M. Douroudous; Educational
Director W. Liesengang. No disputed
OT. Pay-off will take place on the 18th
of November. The chairman explained
the importance of contributing to BRAD,
of upgrading yourselves with educa
tional courses at Piney Point, and gen
erally emphasized the difficulties and
problems of shipping and the maritime
industry. The educational director also
suggested the Rehabilitation Program
to those crew members who might need
it. It was reminded that the lounge be
kept clean at all times and suggested
that the video movies be rotated. A vote
of thanks was given to the steward
department.
SANTA MERCEDES (Delta
Steamship Lines), September 27—
Chairman A. Beck; Secretary S.N.
Smith; Educational Director Bob
Stearmeh; Deck Delegate H. Nutting;
Engine Delegate J.R. I^iller; Steward
Delegate H.J. Rogers. No disputed OT.
The ship's fund has $120. The Santa Mercedes reports a very good trip to
date. Weather permitting, Sept. 30 will
be the last cook-out for the trip. The
watchstanders are extrerhely unhappy
about the way overtime is being han
dled. They feel it is discriminatory. This
will be taken up with the patrolmen and
port agent. Crew members were
advised to get in the habit of locking all
four doors on the messhall and crew
rec room when in port to prevent any
incidents of theft. Heading out to Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
OGDEN CHAMPION (Ogden
Marine Inc.), October 19—Chairman M.
Beaching; Secretary R. be Boissiere;
Educational Director D. Breaux; Deck
Delegate H.D. Jackson; Engine Dele
gate D.D. Brian; Steward Delegate J.H.
Gleaton. No disputed OT. The chairman
reported that all repairs have been
completed. The secretary reminded
crew that only by returning to school
for courses can they upgrade and make
better money. The educational director
urged the men to know their contracts—
and ttieir rights. They were also urged
to call and write their congressmen to
let them know how they feel. We must
continue to fight for the survival of the
Merchant Marine—not just talk about
it. Let your congressmen know that
everytime you go down the Mississippi
or any channel and the only ship flying
the American flag is yours, that those
are your jobs that these foreign flags
have taken. Get mad. Fight, fight, fight.
A motion was made and seconded to
make shipping cards for 125 days
'instead.of 90 days to giye relief men a
chance to work. A vote was taken: 6
for, 9 against. The Ogden Champion
reports to the LOG that they received
their first load of oil from the new pipeline
from the Pacific side to the Atlantic side
on October 8. Bosun Beeching and
Chief Steward De Boissiere officiated
at the proceedings. A special vote of
thanks was given to steward De Bois
siere, cook James Gleaton and baker
Joe Clark for a terrific job; to Bosun
Beeching and the deck department for
a clean ship; and to the engine depart
ment for a smooth trip. One minute of
silence was observed in merhory of our
departed brothers and sisters. Next port:
Bayway, N.J.
PORTLAND (Sea-Land Service).
November 7—Chairman J.W Allen;
Secretary H. Lewis; Deck Qelegate
Steven B.urdo; Engine Delegate Gary
C. Mitchell; Stewards Delegate Harry
E. Lively. No disputed OT. It was
reported that there was no ship's fund,
but that when the ship returns from layup, the fund will be started again. All
communications and letters received
from Headquarters were posted for
members to read. The chairman
reminded crew that all expired clinic
cards must be renewed before'
reclaiming their jobs. He also had a lx>ok
check and found that men were riding
with no union book. The secretary sug
gested that anyone desiring to go to
Piney Point for upgrading see the chief
steward and he will supply the neces
sary application forms. Thanks were,
given to the 4-8 watch for a good job
keeping the pantry clean—also to the
steward department for a job well done.
Next port: Seattle.
BALTIMORE (Sea-Land Service),
October 16—Chairman J. Long; Sec
retary W. Wroten; Educational Director
J. Tagliafeni; Deck Delegate R Mistretta,
Engine Delegate R McAneney; Steward
Delegate M. Jablonski. No disputed OT
or beefs. The ship's chairman read a
letter from Angus Campbell regarding
computation of pension time. The letter
stated that the motion regarding pension
credit will be referred to the Board of
Trustees for evaluation. The crew would
like to thank Red Campbell for his
prompt action in referring this motion
to the Board of Trustees. The chairman
stated that the crew would be kept
informed of the progress. He also dis
cussed the importance of writing to your
congressman, urging support for the
Boggs Bill HR-6979. Passage of this
bill will benefit all members who con
tinue to sail for a living. It will especially
benefit the younger members. The
secretary reported that everything is
progressing smoothly. Payoff will be in
Port Elizabeth this trip. He also
reminded the crew of the importance
of donating to S.RA.D.—an investment
in every seaman's security. The
chairman submitted a request for a
separate antenna and rotor for the crew
TV It appears that the officers' TV
interferes with the crew's TV giving very
poor reception. The engine department
will talk to the first assistant engineer
about painting rooms, and a repair list
will be submitted to the Union. The
chairman said this was a good crew
and a pleasure to sail with. Onward to
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Port Eliz
abeth.
Digest of Ships Neetings
THOMPSON MSS (Interocean
Management), October 31—Chairman
L. Freeburn; Deck Delegate M. DibiasI;
Engine Delegate M. Hill; Steward Del
egate A. Langlois; Secretary W.C. Wal
lace. No disputed OT. Arrival at Long
Beach is scheduled for Nov. 3. Payoff
will take place there. Crew members
were reminded that for safety reasons,
no more than five persons should be
on the gangway at one time. The sec
retary reported that anyone with beefs
can present them to the Union official
at the time of arrival. Next port: Long
Beach.
SEA-LAND INNOVATOR <SeaLand Service), November 7—Chairman
Jim Pulliam; Secretary Jesse B. Natividad; Educational Director Chuck Haller;
Deck Delegate Donald D. Howard;
Engine Delegate Frank A. Bolton. No
disputed OT. There is $290 in the ship's
movie fund. The ship's ETA for Yoko
hama is 1700, November 13. Arrival
drawings are being held for Yokohama,
Hong Kong and Kobe. Any crew having
rooms on the forward side of the house
were asked to keep their curtains closed
at night. Also, care should be taken
when using the washing machine, the
video machine and the tapes. A sug
gestion was made that the Welfare Plan
issue medical cards (like Blue Cross)
for its members and their dependents.
It's a hassle and causes a delay when
a member or his dependents go to a
hospital if they have no medical insur
ance card. Crew members were
reminded to help keep the ship clean
and to give any repairs to their delegate.
One minute of silence was observed in
memory of our departed brother and
sisters. Next port: Kobe.
LNG TAURUS (Energy Transpor
tation Corporation), October 3—
Chairman, Recertified Bosun David La
France; Secretary John F Gibbons;
Educational Director Jose Camelo. No
disputed OT. There is $350 in the ship's
fund. A discussion was held on the
communications received about fit/unfit
duty. The chairman stressed that crew
must report to an S.I.U. clinic in order
to receive a fit- or unfit-for-duty slip. He
also reminded crew of the importance
of letting the union halls know of any
changes of address. The secretary
asked that when leaving the ship, all
crew should have their quarters neat
and clean for the next man. A motion
was made and seconded that six
members be assigned on LNG vessels
for a minimum of 125 days in order to
insure eligibility for vacation. The crew
concurred. Captain R.T. Sjokvist spoke
at the meeting on various items, among
them that the company is checking into
buying movies. The LNG TAURUS also
reports they are now 3 out of 4 in softball—beating the BONTANG! Thanks
were given to the steward department
and to Piney Point for jobs well done.
Next port: Osaka, Japan.
< SEA-LAND PACER (Sea-Land
Service), October 10—Chairman J.
Corder; Secretary T. Maley; Educational
Director J. Dellinger; Deck Delegate
Paul Pallas; Engine Delegate Frank
Keller; Steward Delegate Raymond
Jones. No disputed OT. There is $10 in
the ship's fund. The chairman reported
that everything is running smoothly. He
discussed the importance of supporting
the political activities of the Union
wherever and whenever possible—
especially with S.RA.D. contributions.
The crew was also advised to read the
LOG and keep informed of opportunities
to upgrade at Piney Point. The chairman
commented on the skill and good nature
of this crew which helped in the smooth
running of the ship. A vote of thanks
was given to the steward department
for a job well done. Heading out to Wil
mington.
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October 18—Chairman F. Jensen;
Secretary W. Lovett; Educational
Director R. Matthews. No disputed OT.
The chairman reported that a lot of ships
are laid up and more are laying up
all the time. He stressed that crew
members who are fortunate to have jobs
should try and take care of them. He
also discussed the importance of
donating to S.RA.D. so we can keep
people in Washington working on our
behalf. Everything else seems to be
running smoothly, although a new ice
maker is needed for the crew mess
room. A vote of thanks was given to
the steward department for a job well
done.One minute of silence was
observed in memory of our departed
brothers and sisters. Next port: Port
Newark.
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John Wilfred Clark, 80, joined
the SlU in 1940 in the port of New
York. Brother Clark sailed as a GSU
aboard the Dredge Ezra Zanzibar
(Construction Aggregates) from 1972
to 1977 and as a utility man on the
Barge Hydro Atlantic (Construction
Aggregates) in 1971. He also sailed
as a head waiter and dietician aboard
the SS Puerto Rico (Eastern Steam
ship). Seafarer Clark last worked on
the Sea-Land Shoregang in Port
Elizabeth, N.J. And he was also a
regular SPAD contributor. Clark is
the political leader of the 10th Ward
in Neptune, N.J. Born in West Vir
ginia, he is a resident of Neptune.
Raymond Francis Devlne,
157, joined the SlU in 1943 in the port
of New York sailing as a chiefsteward. He was a 1979 graduate
of the Union's Steward RecertifiIcation Program. Brother Devine was
born in Algona, la. and is a resident
of Mobile.
George Henry Rowland, 56,
joined the SlU in the port of New
York in 1961 sailing as a chief elec
trician. Brother Rowland in" 1968
graduated as a 3rd assistant engi
neer from tiie Union's-MEBA District
2 School of Engineering, Brooklyn,
N.Y He was bom in Elberton, Ga.
and is a resident of Atlanta, Ga.
Leonardo Manca, 62, sailed as
an assistant steward for the SlU for
Delta Line and the Waterman
Steamship Co. Brother Manca is a
resident of New Orleans.
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Joseph Zeschltz, 66, joined
the SlU in the port of New York in
1955 sailing as a FOWT and oiler.
Brother Zeschitz sailed 34 years. He
hit the bricks in the 1962 Robin Line
beef. Seafarer Zeschitz in 1966
graduated as a 3rd assistant engi
neer from the Union's-MEBA District
2 School of Engineering, Brooklyn,
N.Y He was born in Hoboken, N.J.
and is a resident of Freehold, N.J.
Manfredo Vittorio^iampi, 66,
joined the SlU in the port of Boston
in 1951 sailing as a chief steward.
Brother Ciampi sailed on the LNG
Cove Spirit (Cove Shipping) and
sailed for Esso Standard Oil from
1938 to 1942. He also sailed chief
butcher aboard U.S. Army transports
during World War II, the Korean
Conflict and the Vietnam War. In
1980, he hit the bricks in the inland
ACBL beef. Seafarer Ciampi grad
uated from the LNG Course at the
Harry Lundeberg School of Sea
manship, (HLSS) Piney Point, Md.
A native of Portland, Me., he is a
resident of Exeter, N.H.
' William R Charnock, 63, joined the Union in_
the port of Norfolk in 1960 sailing as a deckhand for
the Penn-Central Railroad from 1949 to 1981. Brottier
Charnock wag born in Northhampton County, Va.
and is a resident of Exmore, Va.
Josa M. Nazario, 67, joined the SlU in 1943
sailing as a FOWT. Brother Nazario, in 1967, grad
uated as a 3rd assistant engineer from the Union'sMEBA District 2 School of Engineering, Brooklyn,
N.Y He is a resident of Santa Rosa-Bayamon, PR.
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Recertified Bosun Louis Luclen
Arena, 60, joined the SlU in 1941 in
the port of New Orleans. Brother
Arena sailed for the Waterman
Steamship Co. and for Whiteman
Tugs, New Orleans as a deckhand
from 1945 to 1946. In September
1944, he was awarded the French
Crois de Guerre Medal with Silver
Star for World 4/Var II action in the
European Theater of Operations
(ETO). Seafarer Arena also won the
U.S. Army Field Artillery's Bronze
Arrowhead Medal and the Distin
guished Unit Badge with Oak Leaf
Cluster in his 30 rtibhths^of fighting
overseas. Arena was a T/5 canno
neer, fonward observer and telephone
lineman for Battery As 105 mm 41st
Bn. attached tg the 3rd and 34th
Infantry Divisions. They fought in
North Africa, Sicily, Italy's Anzio
Beachhead, Arno River, Fogia,
Naples and Rome, Southern France,
Austria and Germany's battles. Hewon the Crois de Guerre with Co. A,
30th Infantry crawling 250 yards
across an open field under heavy
Nazi mortar and machinegun fire to
radio back positions of enemy
machinegun nests holding up the
advance and knocking them out.
Bom in New Orleans, he is a resident
there.
Joseph Basch, 64, joined the
SlU in the port of San Francisco in
1955 sailing as an oiler for Waterman
and Delta Line. Brother Basch was
born in Maryland and is a resident
of New Orleans.
Adron Cox, 57, joined the SlU in
the port of Baltimore in 1957 sailing
as an electrician. Brother Cox sailed
38 years and for the Delta Line. He
earned his QMED endorsement in
1973 at the HLSS. He is a PFC vet
eran of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery
Corps, Battery C, 102nd Antiaircraft
Automatic Weapons Bn. in World War
II. Seafarer Cox was born in Ken
tucky and is.a resident of Lily, Ky.
Bernard Joseph Boles, 58, joined
the SlU in 1943 in the port of New
York sailing as a FOWT for the Delta
Line. Brother Boles was born in
Shadyside, Ohio and is a resident
of Wheeling, W. Vai.
Frank Bradley, 63, joined the SlU
in 1937 in the port of Mobile sailing
as a chief cook for Sea-Land. Brother
Bradley was born in Alabama and is
J a resident of the Bronx, New Vbrk
City.
- V Theodore Callas, 64, joined the
ISlU in the port of New Vbrk iri 1956
sailing as an AB for Sea-Land.
Brother Callas sailed 31 years. He
was bom in Greece and is a resident
of West Orange, N.J.
Isaias Cambronero, 55, joined
the SlU in the port of New Orleans
in 1959 sailing as a OMED. He sailed
for Sea-Land. Brother Cambronero
was born in Costa Rica, C.A. and is
a resident of Kenner, La.
Marius Henry Del Prado, 67,
joined the SlU in the port of New
York in 1964 sailing as a chief elec
trician and QMED for Sea-Land.
Brother Del Prado sailed 24 years.
He was born in Paramaribo, Dutch
Guiana, S.A. and is a resident of
Dunedin, Fla.
James W. Canard, 67, joined the
SlU in the port of New Orleans in
1957 sailing as an AB. Brother
Canard sailed 42 years. He was bom
in Forest City, Miss, and is a resident
of Hattiesburg, Miss.
Elton John Hamaty, 66, joined the
SlU in 1944 in the port of New York
sailing as an AB for lOT and aboard
the CS Long Lines (AT&T). Brother
Hamaty was born in Missouri and is
a resident of North Quincy, Mass.
Joseph A. Cave, 62, joined the
SlU in 1941 in the port of Houston
sailing as an AB. Brother Cave sailed
for the Delta Line. He was born in
Pennsylvania and is a resident of
Kenner, La.
Dev^ughn Harrison, 54, joined
the SlU in 1947 in the port of New
York sailing as a bosun. Brother
Harrison was born in Alabama and
is a resident of Saraland, Ala.
Jose Cortes, 62, joined the SlU
in 1945 in the port of Baltimore sailing
ii as an AB. Brother Cortes sailed for
Sea-Land. He was born in Puerto
Rico and is a resident of Triijillo Alto,
PR.
Alt Larsen, 62, joined the SlU in
the port of New York in 1958 sailing
as an AB. Brother Larsen sailed 30
years. He was born in Norway and
is a resident of Brooklyn.
Claude J. Blanchard, 64, joined
the SlU in the port of Houston in 1956
sailing as an-AB. He sailed 41 years.
Brother Blanchard was bom in Texas
and is a resident of Galveston, Tex.
Rafael Esteban Cuavas, 59, joined the SlU
in 1945 in the port of New York sailing as a cook.
Brother Cuevas was born in San Juan, PR. and is
a resident of Houston.
William Hi. Deese, 62, sailed for Radcliff Mate
rials from 1964 to 1982. Brother Deese was bom In
Uriah, Ala. and is a resident there.
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_A host M community civ^^ labor
and business leaders, states assem
blymen and Alabama Congressional
and Senatorial representatives
offered congratulajiory notes of
appreciation to Dr. Arthur A.
Amendola, honored this month as
The Greater Mobile Port Maritime
Council, AFL-CIO "Man of the
Year."
Dr. Amendola, who for 25 years
held the post of chief resident phy
sician at the SIU clinic in Mobile,
was lauded for his tireless efforts,
his sincere dedication to the rtedical
profession and his love of people.Though not on hand to personally
thank Dr. Amendola, SIU President
Frank Drozak's praise appeared
among pages of warm plaudits
published throughout the award
program. Mobile's Mayor Gary
Greenough with words of gratitude
presented Amendola the key to his
city of Mobile and Govemor George
Dr. Arthur A. Amendola, right, accepts "Man of the Year" award wheel
plaque from SIU Mobile Port Agent Thomas Glidewell.
Wallace was amid the well wishers.
Dr. Amendola's long association
with seafarers began soon after he
completed his residency in surgery
in 1944 at New York Post Graduate
A Reminder:
Medical School and Hospital, at
Columbia University. Arriving in
Mobile in 1944 to serve as chief
surgeon and medical professor at
Mobile's City Hospital, his sojourn
treating seafarers at sea aboard
SIU Headquarters Is Now
Located in Washington
The new headquarters of the
Seafarers International Union is
now located in Washington,
D.C. All Union business formerly
conducted at the SlU's old head
quarters in Brooklyn is now being
handled at the new headquarters.
Here Is the new address and
Memorial Service Is Held
For Waitress Lost at Sea
phone number of the Seafarers
Headquarters:
Seafarers International Union
5201 Auth Why
Camp Springs, Md. 20746
Phone: (301) 899-0675
Minix Opens Subic Bay Post
SIU Far East Rep Ralph G. Minix
Sr. opened a Union office in the
Subic Bay, P.l. area recently, and is
temporarily based in the Plaza Hotel
there.
Previously, the SIU had requested
office space on the Subic Bay Naval
Base but was turned down by the
Military Sealift Command (MSC).
Minix plans to move the Union
office Alongapo just outside the
naval base gate. The address and
telephone number of the Subic Bay
office will be in a future issue of
the LOG.
He will service all Seafarers riding
SlU-contracted vessels in the Far
steamship vessels and ashore in
Alabama's ports began.
He continued helping seafafers,
solving medical problems, advising
patients and fostering a personal
concem and fellowship even though
in 1947 he established his own pri
vate practice. As one banquet
attendee summed up his professional
service, "He has always shown a
deep concem and genuine interest
in the many seamen he has known
oyer the years. He has strived to
give his best to these men."
Dr. Amendola has also served for
thirty years as Divisional Surgeon
for GM&O Railroad and for fifteen
years as a volunteer to the Little
Sisters of the Poor. It was in 1957
that he was appointed by the SIU
to the Mobile clinic.
Presently, Dr. Amendola is staff
doctor at four hospitals—Providence
Hospital, Mobile Infirmary, Doc
tor's Hospital and the University of
South Alabama Medical Center.
East. So at times Minix will be away
from the office for several days
while he is traveling.
In October and November, he
visited SIU ships in both Subic Bay
and in Japan where the LNG vessels
offload their cargo.
Minix prefers to visit the ships
while the MSC inspection team is
aboard because he feels that is the
best time to settle any beefs the crew
might have.
A memorial burial service was
held last month aboard the SS Santa
Maria (Delta Line) for missing
Waitress Sose Sione, 41, lost at sea
off the SS Santa Mercedes on the
way to Chile.
Sister Sione joined the SlUmerged Marine Cooks and Stewards
Union, in the port of San Francisco
in 1978. She had started sailing on
the West Coast in .1971 and had
sailed on the Santa Mercedes iroxn
1978 to 1979.
Bom in American Samoa, she
was a resident of San Francisco.
Surviving is her mother, Talai Televia
of Samoa.
The SIU crew of the Sanfa Maria
spread the blanket to collect $132
donated in her name to the Apostleship of the Sea in San Francisco.
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of \/\feitsonville, Calif, reads the memorial
burial service last month aboard the
SS Santa Maria (Delta Line) for missing
waitress Sose Sione lost at sea.
MmtElNR Bdiiri hrllrniMes
NOV. i-30, 1982
*TOTAL REGISTERED
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
Port
TOTAL SHIPPED
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
DECK DEPARTMENT
24
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^REGISTERED ON BEACH
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
47
6
2
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
8
5
0
20
5
1
STEWARD DEPARTMENT
7
2
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4"
3
0
36
21
5
35
107
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39
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Seafarer Katzoff Remembers:
For many years the LOG has
received some warm and lovely
stories and poems from retired
Seafarer Max Katzoff.
Brother Katzoff, who sailed as
FOWT, lived for many years in
Jerusalem, Israel after he retired
from the sea. There he was doing
voluntary work as an English
teacher in a school for the blind.
Now Brother Katzoff is back in
the States living at Sailors Snug
Harbor in Sea Level, N.C.
From his retreat there he has
sent the LOG a number of won
derful vignettes. One of them,
about his boyhood days in Latvia
where he was born in 1910, was
run in the August LOG. The fol
lowing story covers some of his
adolescent years In New York.
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My three brothers and I, now
with our names anglicized to Harry,
Max, Bill and Al, were no longer
cuddled and pampered by our
grandparents with whom we lived
in Europe. We were now (in 1920)
proud, new, young Americans. We
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at once the taste of a rainbow.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds, a hand
some couple in their mid years, were
among the regular customers at the
A&P store. They and their Collie
Teddy comprised their entire family.
Their fruit farm in nearby Fostertown was as neat and as orderly as
they were in person. In the spring
of 1921, my first American spring,
Mrs. Edmonds suggested that with
my family's approval I might camp
on their farm during summer vaca
tion and pick currants.
Permission to summer on the farm
was granted without much ado, and
I promptly ran my father in debt to
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Pat McGovem 'soon came to be one of us.'
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Below is a fictional
account written by Brottier
Max Katzoff about a
policeman turned sailor.
In the early 1930s, the City of
Los Angeles, though still young
as municipalities go, was in a
bottomless quagmire of corrup
tion. By way of decoying attention
away from the upper levels of
city hall, Mayor Shaw ceremo
niously chopped a few heads in
the police department.
— Pat McGovem, with four years
service in law enforcement, was
among those who were desig
nated to fall. He was caught
rolling a drunken oil field roust
about.
Well, there stood Pat;
unfrocked, out in the cold, and
- nothing going for him. And, as
an added pinch of salt on his
open wounds, his wife walked
away with a fellow officer.
His one ray of sun, the one
straw on his storm ridden sea,
was his mother-in-law, Clara, a
snaggletoothed woman with a
hunched right shoulder. She had
a heart of gold, this Clara, and
room in her heart for those who
fall by the way-side.
It was she, who virtually carried
Pat in her arms through his
downfall and degradation. Then
she deposited him on the water
front, as if to say: -Tve brought
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were settled in Riverton on the point to my exposed bottom. Would
Hudson, with our father and young that I had hated him then as little
stepmother. Our new community as I do now.
Among those who dropped a
accepted us warmly, and we had
friendly eye on me was Mr. Frost
little, if any, complaint.
Saturdays I worked in the red in the fish store. I used to invite
front A&P store. I was privileged myself in to visit him when he
to operate the monstrous earth wasn't busy or too upset about his
trembling coffee grinder and to load drunken daughter. His daughter was
groceries on customers' wagons and an enormous woman somewhere in
Model T Fords. My wage for the her forties. She spat tobacco juice,
12-hour day was one dollar, plus a and s.o.b'd anyone who displeased
box of Cheez-its, if I didn't spend her. She let it out that her man died
too much time talking tolhe ]prTs in a hassle over a gold mine claim
in Alaska in 1898.
who came in with their parents.
Mr. Frost was an Indian trader
Mr. Sneed, the surviving partner
of Sneed & Mathews Butcher Shop, in Northwest Territory long before
next door to the A&P store, used the turn of the century. He was, in
to sit at his high desk in his shop fact, Indian himself. He said I
window, and greet the world as it wouldn't be out of order in calling
him Pahaska, 'he who has long haif
sauntered by.
In my boyhood I was no more "Her man wasn't killed," he said,
than skin stretched over bones, and "he resettled in the Klondike with
the mor^ hampered by Mr. Dough her sister, a more tame and civil
erty's outsized apron. Oft-times as woman."
To learn all this and more, I had
I stretched to load the food stuff on
the wagons and cars, my pants only to tolerate his stinking com
slipped down to half-mast. Mr. cob pipe and his dead fish, as often
Sneed would rap on his plate glass as not poorly iced. He once treated
window to attract an audience, then rhe to the Ice Cream Parlor. I had
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you another man in need of a
haven, take him.'' And he soon
came to be one of us.
Pat and 1 shipped out of San
Francisco, and we were watch
partners as often as we could
arrange it.
He was then happily married
to his former mother-in-law,
Clara.
Pat was a man easily lost in
a crowd, so long as you paid no
heed to the missing upper flap
of his left ear. Aboard ship, he
stood head and shouiders above
all of us as a sailor, as aahipmate,
and as the man on the bar stool
next to you. Yes, Pat gave a good
account of himself, and a little
to boot.
His one quirk, and I guess you
could call it that, was his obs
ession with shipboard chow, with
the soup in particular. He grum
bled no end about the abuse of
good food in the galley, and he
carried this grudge from ship to
ship. (Now to tell it as it was,
we've always had a few seagoing
cooks who hid all their othet
mistakes in the soup kettle, but
enough of that for now.)
Clarardied with her head cra
dled in his arms, the spring of
1974, and on her way out the
door of life, he promised to quit
the sea, and live out his winter
years at Sailors Snug Harbor.
As for Clara's daughter Flor
ence, Pat's first wife, when he
scooped her out of San Fran
cisco's skidrow to attend her
mother's funeral, she looked like
a retired you know what.
In the summer of that year Pat
organized his personal affairs
and set out to honor his promise
to Clara, moments before her
candle flickered its last. There
were days when he wished for
his own end, the sooner to be
by her side again. What, after
all, is a mere forty-one years
together?
It was on the homeward
crossing of his final voyage,
before heading east to Snug
Harbor, when Pat McGovern's
problems resolved themselves.
He stomped into the galley, one
high noon, dumped his soup bowl
on the chief cook's head, then
he walked back to the messroom
and dropped dead.
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Fat Can be Fatal: Watch Your Diet
Each month, the Final Depar
tures page of the LOG is filled with
'Seafarers who died prematurely of
heWt^ attacks, strokes, or cancer.
Many^f these deaths can be traced
to ^ing disorders.
"^esity is the most visible indi
cation of improper eating habits. It
can cause serious emotional and
Seafarers Health Line
financial problems. It plays a role
in the formation of adult diabetes.
It has been linked with chronic back
problems, liver ailments, and acne.
A person does not have to weighin at three hundred pounds to have
a problem with food. A lot of mem
bers who are quite thin Will die prematurely because they don't eat
properly. Take, for example, the
member who has high blood pres
sure, yet still puts extra salt on his
food.
Some people seem to be blessed
with good health. The truth, how
ever, is that they were probably
raised in an environment that valued
good eating habits.
Most of us aren't that lucky. We
have to accept the fact that we do
not know what is healthy and what
is not.
Good eating is a lifetime occu
pation. The main thing about good
nutrition is this: you must take
responsibility for your own health.
It is up to you, and no one else, to
find a food plan that will make you
healthier. Eating well is not the same
thing as being thin: it is eating the
things that will make you healthy.
A good attitude is a must. A
person has to be willing to discard
old habits and be willing to learn
new ones. It is a lot like upgrading.
Seafarers have several things
going for them that other people
don't. For one thing, we are required
to take a physical in order to get
woric. That gives us the chance to
discuss with our doctors a sensible
food plan. It also gives us a chapce
to pinpoint any health problem
before it becomes serious.
Seamen also work onboard ves
sels that are well stocked with
healthy food. It's true that a person
can overeat if he wants to: there's
no shortage of cakes, pies, or fatty
foods. But then again, there's no
shortage of vegetables, fruits, or
poultry.
It is important to understand what
kind of people we are. We have to
be aware of our habits. A person
who exercises a lot will have a dif
ferent food plan than one who
doesn't. A person who likes sweets
will fare very well on a diet like
Weight Watchers, which allows a
person several pieces of fruit, peanut
butter, even a mock dish of Weight
Watchers ice cream.
A person who hates to measure
his food will find it difficult to stay
on Weight Watchers or any diet that
requires you to count calories. He
might prefer a simpler food plan
that offers less variety but which
does not require that he measure his
food.
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There is no one way of eating
properly. We must look around for
the food plan of our choice. We
should talk to our doctors. We can
go to established places like Overeaters Anonymous or Weight
Watchers for guidance. We can ask
friends who have lost weight how
they did it.
fe looking for a food plan a person
should be aware that many diets
promise more than they can deliver.
Yes, there are diets that promise you
Katzoff Remembers
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tune of $11.70 at the Army &
I .'the
Navy store, for a mildewed pup
I'm sure they overdrew their account
every winter.
Mrs. Edmonds, a pale face nunish
woman, presided over a New Eng
land maplewood household as
immaculate as any you've ever seen
illustrated in magazines. Teddy was
never allowed in the house proper.
And 1, only after 1 washed my feet
at the side door. One evening she
nudged her husband: "Don't you
think little Max would be a good
hand around the place?"
If 1 had enough sense then to
plead even a weak case, 1 might
have become their son, or at least
another Collie. And with the
Edmonds I'd have been just as
happy, boy or Collie.
tent and all else needed to go with
it.
The Edmonds' Collie Teddy
moved into my pup tent that
summer, and promptly took com
mand. My baggy seat overalls, he
decided, weren't fit to wear, until
after he'd slept on them all night.
He didn't take kindly to my skinny
dipping in the nearby swimming
hole. So he dragged my overalls
into the water after me. After he
taught me to gather in the cows and
the hens, at the end of day, he just
sat back as the overseer.
There were two bearded old coots
Our grandparents, with whom we
from New York City's Bowery,
who'd been coming up to the farm immigrated to the States in 1920,
summers for the berry season. They lived out their remaining years in
were quartered in a crude cabin, New York City. Grandpa died there
'ferwilliger slept with one eyelid of cancer in 1925, and Grandma
open. Quigly's snoring rattled the Celia carried on into her ninetyfloor boards. Then he whistled as third year.
1 sat with her one evening, a few
he exhaled through his beard. 1
know! 1 know! But he did it in his months before she passed on. We
held hands, and she talked... "1once
sleep.
The Edmonds brought our pro heard that an infant was living with
visions from the A&P store every 'those ladies' near the river docks
Saturday. He gave those two old in Libau. Your grandpa Beryl and
duffers no money. Then all winter 1 bribed a police officer to bring
they'd send him postcards, and he that baby out of there, and we gave
in turn sent them five or ten dollar it to your parents to raise. Now one
checks to some Bowery flop house. of ybu four brothers was that child."
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the moon: that you can eat all tne
meat, papaya, or whatever and still
lose weight. Watch out for them.
Usually these are fad diets that are
harmful to your health. Worse, they
do nothing to teach you the basics
of good nutrition.
In choosing a food plan, keep this
simple rule in mind: Stay away from
diets that do not meet the minimal
nutritional needs. At the very least,
a person should ccmsume the min
imum daily requirements from each
of the major categories of food:
grain, milk, protein, veget^les,
fruit.
One other thing: no one needs
diet pills to lose weight. If good
health is your main goal, why risk
pill addiction?
And one final note: Obesity is a
killer.
Over 1,500 Seafarers
HAVE DONE IT!
Join the crowd and get yoi^
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
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The GEO program at the Seafarers Harry
Lundeberg School of Seamanship offers small
classes with lots of individualized help from the
teachers.
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High SchooLDiploma to fill out your life, fill out
the coupon below and mail it to:
Academic Department
Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship
Piney Point, Maryiand 20674
NAME
ADDRESS.
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City
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State
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Pensioner Nich
olas G. Lekkas,
45, died on Oct. 37^^
Brother Lekkas
joined the SIU in the
port of New York in
1959 sailing as a
bosun. He walljed
the picketline in the
1963 Rotobroil beef and the 1965 District
Council 65 strike. Seafarer Lekkas was
bom in Alexandria, Egypt and was a res
ident of Greenport, L.L, N.Y. He was a
naturalized U.S. citizen. Surviving is his
Pensioner Robert widow.
Reed Burns, 72,
Rsnsioner Charles
passed away from
Augustine Lindheart failure in
' berg, 52, died on
Tampa, Fla. on Apr.
Aug. 7. Brother
3, 198L Brother
Lindberg joined the
Burns joined the
SIU in the port of
SIU in the port of
New York in 1955
New York in 1952
sailing as an AB. He
sailing as a chief cook. He hit the bricks
upgraded at the
in the 1958-9 maritime beef. Seafarer Bums Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship
was bom in Iowa City, la. and was a resident (HLSS) in Piney Point, Md. And he was
of Mango, Fla. Cremation took place and a veteran of the U.S. Navy in the Korean
his ashes were scattered over the seas. War. Bom in Philadelphia, he was a resident
Surviving are his widow. Amber; a there. Surviving are his widow, Mary; a
daughter, Mrs. Joan Berry and a brother, son, Michael; a daughter, Patricia and his
George.
mother, Frances of Philadelphia.
Joseph Franklin
Pensioner WilDellanavy, 53, died
. Ham Henry Little,
of heart failure on
68, passed away on
July 12. Brother
Oct. 6. Brother
Dellanavy Joined
Little joined the SIU
the SIU in the port
in the port of Nor
of San Francisco in
folk in 1956 sailing
1968 sailing as an
in the steward
AB for 24 years. He
department. He
attended the 1970 Piney Pbint (Md.) Crews sailed 33 years. Seafarer Little was bom
Conference No. 9. Serfarer Dellanavy was in Hamett, N.C. and was a resident of
bom in San Francisco and was a resident Wilmington, N.C. Surviving is his brother,
there. Cremation took place in the Hidden David of Wilmington.
Valley Crematory, Racheco, Calif. Surviving
Pensioner John
are a brother, James of Santa Rosa, Calif,
Malinowski, 74,
and a niece, Jeanette B. Shelton of Cot
succumbed to lung
tonwood, Ariz.
failure in the
Charles Herbert
Wyman Park Hos
Fox, 54, died on
pital, Baltimore on
June 2. Brother Fox
Sept. 1. Brother
joined the SIU in
Malinowski joined
1947 sailing as a
the SIU in 1947 in
bosun. Brother Fox the port of Baltimore sailing as a FOWT.
was bom in Ala He was bom in Baltimore and was a resident
K
bama and was a of Greensboro, Md. Interment was in St.
resident of Bir Stanislaus Cemetery, Baltimore. Surviving
mingham, Ala. Surviving ^e his widow, are his widow, Catherine; a son, Chester
Vivian and his mother, Mrs. W. E. Jacobs and a daiighter, Rosalie.
of St. Andrews, Fla^
Pensioner Luis
Pensioner
Ramon Serrano,
George Edward
66, died of a
Hair, Jr., 64, died
stomach
hemor
on Oct. 16. Brother
rhage in Doctors
Hair joined the SIU
Hospital, San Juan,
in the port of Lake
P.R. on Aug. 4.
Charles, La. in 1957
Brother Serrano
sailing as a chief
joined the SIU in the
steward. He sailed port of New York in 1955 sailing as an
32 years. Seafarer Hair was bom in Utah oiler for 36 years. He was on the picketline
and was a resident of Lynnwood, Wash. in the 1961 Greater N.Y. Harbor beef and
Surviving are his widow, Jessie and a the 1965 District Council 37 strike. Seafarer
nephew.
Serrano was bom in San Sebastian, PR.
Edward Arthur and was a resident of Catano, P.R. Burial
Heniken, 66, died was in the Municipal Bay View Cemetery,
of heart failure in Catano. Surviving is his widow. Ana Maria.
the Valley Memorial
Pensioner Roy Lee Blackwell, 68, suc
Hospital, Sunnyside, Wash, as the cumbed to cancer in the St. Mary's Medical
result of a motor- Center, Long Beach, Calif, on Dec. 23,
1981. Brother Blackwell sailed as a chief
cycle-tmck collision
on June 27. Brother cook for APL in the SlU-merged Marine
Heniken joined the SIU in the port of Seattle Cooks & Stewards Union (MC&S). He
first sailed from the West Coast In 1935.
in 1966 sailing as a chief steward for SeaCremation took place in the Cremar Cre
' Land. He was bom in Indiana and was a
matory, Anaheim, Calif. Surviving are his
resident of Granger, Wash. Cremation took
widow, Ursula and a sister, Mrs. V. Heber
place and his ashes were scattered at sea.
of Venice, Calif.
Surviving is his widow, Lorraine.
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Harold Thomas
Spicer, 61, died on
Augr 21. BrotherSpicer joined the
SIU in the port of
Baltimore in 1955
sailing as an AB. He
was bom in Fulton,
Ky. and was a resi
dent of Long Beach, Calif. Surviving are
his mother, Sadie of Fredericksburg, Va.
and a brother, William.
Pensioner Ar
thur Woodrow
Wroton, 71, passed
away oh Aug. 29.
Brother Wroton
joined the SIU in
1944 in the port of
Norfolk sailing as a
deck engineer for 41
years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army
in World War II. Seafarer Wroton was bom
in Virginia and was a resident of Norfolk.
Surviving is his widow, Shirley.
Pfcnsioner Gustav Sigfiled Carlson, 97,
passed away on Sept. 5. Brother Carlson
joined the SIU in 1941 in the port of New
York sailing as a bosun for 53 years,-He
was bom in Sweden and was a resident of
Texas City, Tex. Surviving are his wido.w
Ruth and his daughter, Mrs. Mantheir.
Pensioner James "Jimmy" Small, Sr.,
75, passed away in San Pedro, Chlif. on
May 16. Brother Small was a member of
the MC&SU. He was bom in Georgia and
was a resident of San Francisco. Interment
was in Green Hills Cemetery. Surviving
are his widow Mildred; a son James Jr.
and two daughters, Margaret and Gloria.
Leslie Alan Malcolm, Jr., 24, died on
Sept. 7. Brother Malcolm joined the Union
in the port of Duluth, Minn, in 1977 sailing
as a deckhand pilot and captain fo^ Hannah
Marine in 1977 and for G&H Towing in
198*1. He was bom in Michigan and was
a resident of St. Claire, Mich. Burial was
in the Three Graves Hillside Cemetery, St.
Claire. Surviving is his father,William of
St. Claire.
Craig Andrew Pitre, 24, died of head
injuries in Opelousas Hospital, Houma, La.
sustained in an accident in Krotz Springs,
La. on June 11. Brothei* Pitre joined the
Union in 1982 sailing as an oiler for Radcliff
Materials. He was bom in Houma and was
a resident there. Interment was in Holy
Cross Cemetery, Houma. Surviving are his
father Jerry of Donner, La. and his mother
Marilyn of Houma.
Henry Charles Barron, 58, died on
Aug. 27. Brother Barron joined the SIUmerged Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
(MC&SU) in the port of San Francisco in
1978 sailing as a chief cook. He first sailed
on the West Coast in 1966. Barron was a
graduate of the union's training school.
And he w^s a former member of the Car
penters and Joiners of America Union and
Rubber Workers Union. Barron was a vet
eran of the U;S. Navy in World War 11.
Bom in Los Angeles, he was a resident of
Yucaipa, Calif. Surviving is his mother,
Mrs. Marie L. Durkee of Yucaipa.
Ffensioner Rus^U Lee Hopkins, 58, died
of heart failure at home in Aurora. N.C.
on June 2. Brother Hopkins joined the
Union in the port of Norfolk in 1961 sailing
as a mate for GATCO from 1959 to 1973.
Burial was in the South Creek Baptist
Church Cemetery, Aurora. Surviving are
his widow. Elizabeth; two sons. Douglas
and James; a daughter, Elizabeth and his
brother. Mack of Aurora.
Pensioner Thurmond J. Cdssey, 75,
succumbed to lung failure in the San Fran
cisco General Hospital OR July 29". BrotheiL_
Cossey was a member of the MC&SU
sailing as a chief steward. He first sailed
on the West Coast in 1944. A native of
Oklahoma, he was a resident of San Fran
cisco. Burial was in Crestview Cemetery,
Wichita Falls. Tex. Surviving are two
brothers. Clarence of Wichita Falls and
Jack, also of Wichita Falls.
Pensioner Thomas Oscar Melton, 66,
died on Aug. 15. Brother Melton joined
the SIU in 1941 in the port of Norfolk
sailing as an AB. He was bom in North
Carolina and was a resident of Mt. Airy,
N.C. Surviving are his widow,Louise and •
his mother, Susan of Mt. Airy.
Pensioner Joseph Christ Tenorio, 86,
succumbed to cancer in the Sheffield Hos
pital, San Francisco on Sept. 9. Brother
Tenorio joined the MC&SU in 1956 sailing
as a chief pantryman for the American
President Line (APL). He first sailed on
the West Coast in 1923. Bom in Hawaii,
he was a resident of San Francisco. Cre
mation took place in the Hidden Valley
Crematory, Pacheco, Calif. Surviving are
his widow, Olga and a.son, Walter.
Inland
Pensioner
Jimmie Dolen
Pearson, 79, passed
away in the Ford
Memorial Hospital,
f Gilmer, Tex. on
Sept. 29. Brother
Pearson sailed in the
inland field working
as a millwright at the Galveston (Tex.)
Wharves? He was bom in Finley, Okla.,
and was a resident of Gilmer. Burial was
in the Willow Oak Cemeteiy, Gilmer. Sur
viving are his widow, Lois; a son, Olon of
Longview, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Doris
Gillane of Galveston; two brothers, O.T
of Gilmer and Tommy of Silsbee, Tex. and
a sister, Mrs. Theo Williams of Bloomfield,
N.M.
Great Lakes
Pensioner Hugh
J. Maclnnis, 76,
died in December.
Brother Maclnnis
joined the Union in
the port of Detroit
in 1950 sailing as a
dredgeman, scowman, and deckhand
for Dunbar and Sullivan, Merritt, (Thapman
and Scott and the Great Lakes Dredge and
Dock Co. He was bom in Glendale, Nova
Scotia, Canada and was a resident of
Dearbom, Mich.
Ptensioner James
Robert Stephen
son, 67, succumbed
to lung-heart failure
in the War Memo•K
Hospital, Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich,
on May 13, 1981.
Brother Stephenson
joined the Union in the port of Sault Ste.
Marie in 1961 sailing as a dredgeman for
Dunbar and Sullivan from 1968 to 1973.
He sailed 23 years. Laker Stephenson was
bom in Sault Ste. Marie and was a resident
there. Interment was in Greenwood Cem
etery, Sault Ste. Marie. Surviving is his
widow. Vera.
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SlU Representative Joe Air, seated at the far right, met with members of
the Ship's Committee of the Santa Clara to discuss welfare betiefits and
matters affecting the maritime industry. Pictured above are: Pedro Laboy,
steward: Miguel Pabon, 3rd Cook; Angel Correa, Chief Cook; Bert Winfield,
baker and steward delegate; Richard Bradford, bosun; and Joe Air.
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Beginning Nov. 15, all correspondence to the LOG should be sent
to our new SIU Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Written correspondence should be sent to:
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Seafarers Lx)g
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The new phone number for the LOG is: (301) 899-0675.
ELTA'S Santa Clara was in PDH
Newark getting ready for a 35
day run to South America that will
include stops at the following U.S.
ports and South American countries:
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah,
Miami, Columbia, Pferu, and Chile.
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won't have to worry about getting
hungry. Aside from fine cooking of
Chief Cook Angel Correa, they will
be carrying several tons of bananas
to their compatriates up North.
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...AND MAKE MONEY. The cargo doesn't move
without the skill and say-so of the Chief Pumpman.
He's top man. So he earns top dollar for his skills.
Get those skills.
Get your Chief Pumpman endorsement.
Take the Pumproom Maintenance and Operations
course at SHLSS. It starts February 13.
To enroll, fill out an application in this issue of the Log, or see your SIU Field
Representative for details.
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Legal Aid
In the event that any SlU members
have legal problems In the various
ports, a list of attorneys whom they
can consult is being published. The
member need not choose the recom
mended attorneys and this list is
intended only for Informational pur
poses:
Take the Basic Welding Course
atSHLSS.
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today.
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out the application
in this issue
of the LOG.
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contact her at 995-9390.
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Dispatchers Report for inland Waters
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"TOTAL REGISTERED
All Groups
Class A Glass B Class C
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All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
3
ID
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
0
8
Port
Gloucester.„^
New \brk
Philadelphia ,.
Baltimore
Norfolk
Mobile
New Orleans .
Jacksonville ..
San Francisco
Wilmington ..
Seattle
Puerto Rico '..
Houston
Algonac
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St. Louis ......;. I.;
Piney Point
Totals —
0
0—
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0 0 .
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Port
Gloucester ...
New\brk ...-.
Philadelphia .
Baltimore —
Norfolk
Mobile
New Orleans .
Jacksonville ..
San Francisco
Wilmington ..
Seattle
Puerto Rico ..
Houston .....
Algortac
St. Louis ,....
Piney Point ..
Totals
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
.0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
28
12
8
4
14
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Totals All Departments
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
3
0
4,
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
3
13
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
2
0
10
0
2
5
0
4•
0
25
Gloucester ...
New Vbrk ...,
Philadelphia .
Baltimore
Norfolk
Mobile
New Orleans .
Jacksonville ..
San Francisco
Wilmington ..
Seattle
Puerto Rico ..
Houston.. —
Algonac
St. Louis
Piney Point ..
Totals
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2,1
0
•
6
5
5
.0
25
0
1
22
0
2
0
88
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
4'
0
1
0
0
3
0
1
0
13
0
0
0
2
0
0
3
4
0
0
0
0
3
0
12
0
24
0
^0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
.0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
0
00 .
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
D
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
-
0
0
0
0 •
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0.
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0
0
0
0
0
0
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0
2
0
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0
0
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0
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0
0
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0 ;
0
0
0
0
0
0
D
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
. 0
0
0
0
4
0
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"""Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month.
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All Groups
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A
S the 1982 school season
begins, it's not too early
for high school seniors tostart thinking about September
1983, and college. For depend
ents of Seafarers and Boatmen,
the financial burden of college
can be greatly eased if they win
an SlU scholarship.
The awards, known as the
Charlie Logan Scholarship
Program, are given each year
under the auspices of the Sea-.
farers Welfare Plan. For
dependents, four $10,000
scholarships are offered.
But the Scholarship Program
Is not exclusively for aepen^ents. A $10,000 award and two
$5,000 scholarships are available
to active Seafarers and Boatmen.
Also, when there are exception
ally qualified Seafarers and
Boatmen, the Board of Trustees
of the Welfare Plan may grant a
second $10,000 award to an
active member.
The Scholarship Program was
begun in 1952 to help members
and their children achieve their
educational goals. Several years
ago it was named after Charlie
Logan, a labor consultant and
arbitrator who died in 1975. He
helped establish the Seafarers
Scholarstiip Program and then
worked bard to keep it strong
and growing.
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1983 SlU College Sctiolarships
SeafaiW Requirements
Seafarers and Boatmen who
are applying for scholarships
must:
• Be a graduate of high school
or its equivalent.
• Have credit for two years
(730 days) of employment with
an employer who is obligated to
make contributions to the Sea
farers Welfare Plan on the
employee's behalf prior to the
date of application.
• Have one day of employ
ment on a vessel in the six month
period immediately preceding the
date of application.
• Have 125 days of employ
ment on a vessel in the previous
calendar year.
Pensioners are not eligible to
receive scholarship awards.
Dependent Requirements
Dependents of Seafarers and
Boatmen who apply for a schol
arship must be unmarried, under
19 years of age, and receive sole
support from the employee and/
or his or her spouse. Unmarried
children who are eligible for ben
efits under Plan #1 Major Med-
ical are eligible to apply for a
dependent's scholarship up to
the age of 25.
Each applicant for a depend
ent's scholarship must:
• Be unmarried at the time
application is made.
• Be under 19 or 25 years of
age (whichever is applicable).
• Be eligible for dependent
benefits under the Seafarers
Welfare Plan.
• Be a graduate of high school
or its equivalent.
The applicant's parent must;
• Have credit for three years
(1,095 days) of employment with
an employer who is obligated to
make contributions to the Sea
farers Welfare Plan on the
employee's behalf prior to the
date of application.
• Have one day of employ
ment in the six month period
immediately preceding the date
of application.
• Have 125 days of employ
ment in the previous calendar
year.
The last two items above cov
ering worktime requirements of
the applicant's parents do not
apply to applicants who are the
children of pensioners or eligible
deceased employees.
Must Take SAT or ACT
For both active members and
the dependents of eligible mem
bers, the scholarship grants are
awarded on the basis of high
school grades and the scores of
either College Entrance Exam
ination Boards (SAT) or American
College Tests (ACT).
The SAT or ACT exam must
be taken no later than February,
1983 to ensure that the results
reach the Scholarship Selection
Committee in time to be evalu
ated. For upcoming SAT test
dates and applications, contact
the College Entrance Exami
nation Board at either: Box 592,
Princeton, N.J. 08540 or Etox
1025, Berkeley, Calif. 94701,
whichever is closest to your
mailing address.
For upcoming ACT test dates
and applications contact: ACT
Registration Union, RO. Box 414,
Iowa City, Iowa 52243.
Scholarship program appli
cations are available to active
members or their dependents at
any SlU Hall or through the Sea
farers Welfare Plan, 275 20th St.,
Brooklyn, N.Y 11215.
Scholarship winners will be
announced in May, 1983. The
deadline for submission of appli
cations is April 15, 1983.
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The Chicago Cab Story: David Takes
by John Bunker
In the early 1960's the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters had
more than l'/2 million members,
plus a bank roll that even Chase
Manhattan would have envied. The
membership of the SIU at that time
did not exeed 75,000, including all
of its affiliates.
Compared to Jimmy Hoffa's
mighty Teamsters, Paul Hall's SIU
was a David with a sling shot. But
little David took on Goliath , and
stung him with defeats from Puerto
Rico to San Diego and other points
in between.
The SIU and the IBT had first
locked horns in Puerto Rico. From
there the battle shifted to Chicago,
then" to Philadelphia, back to Chi
cago and to Detroit, and to St. Louis
and other places.
A Decisive
Confrontation
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The Teamster's most decisive and
embarrasing confrontation with the
SIU came in Chicago where the
sailors helped rebellious cab drivers
over-throw mob control of their
union.
The Chicago cab story goes back
to the 1950s when Dominic Abata,
a former union head of Chicago
cabbies, testified before the Senate
Rackets Investigating Committee.
He told how racketeers, aided by
the Teamsters, had taken over cab
union Local 777, and run it for their
own profit under mobster Joey
Glimco. Abata's testimony and
other information prompted the
Senate Committee to callGlimco's
ICDME TO OUR NEW HEUQUAnERS
FARERSJTITERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA • AFL- CIO
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WORKERSJUliOC. LOCAL 777. SlUNA
Paul Hall and Dominic Abata pose with members of the new democratically elected Chicago cab union as they
opened their new local union headquarters.
Teamster-affiliated Local 777 "the
most corrupt union in America."
Although his outspoken opposi
tion to racketeers was an invitation
to sudden death, Abata formed the
Democratic Union Organizing
Committee in April of 1959 and
started a drive to oust Glimco and
his henchmen. The gangsters
countered with threats, beatings and
sabotage of cabs driven by DUOC
sympathizers.
A First Victory
Despite, this, Abata's efforts were
successful and in 1959 he petitioned
the National Labor Relations Board
for an election. When the vote was
finally taken in July 1961, the
DUOC rebels won by 2,122 to
1,760.
Despite this clear-ciit victory,
Abata found that the Yellow and
Checker cab companies, long
".palsy" with Local 777, were in no
hurry to sign a contract, hoping that
money-short DUOC would fold up
and blow away,
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A Strong Ally
On January 18, 1962, Hall flew
to Chicago and presented an SIU
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At this point, Abata needed a
strong ally in putting pressure on
the companies to sign a contract.
"Go to the Seafarers," he was
advised. "They took on the mob
along the New York waterfront and
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That's the late Earl "Bull" Shepard, at right, with Paul Hall during a membership meeting of the Chicago cab
local on April 28, 1965.
36 / LOG / December 1982
they fought the Teamsters in Puerto
Rico. They don't get scared. They'll
back you up." Abata contacted Paul
Hall and the SIU and found them
ready to help.
charter to Abata's drivers in a cer
emony at the Hamilton Hotel. When
Glimco supporters tried to interrupt
the occasion, a fist-swinging freefor-all broke out, with Hall and
Abata lowering the boom on some
of Glimco's goons before the bluecoats broke it up.
As a last resort to force a contract,
Abata called a strike. The SIU
prgainzed the strike apparatus for
hirh^ set up a soup kitchen and
donated $5,000 to a strike fund, with
the promise of more money and
more sailors to help man the picket
lines.
"We'll send you all the men you
need,"Hall told the drivers. But they
weren't needed. The companies
folded in 20 hours and signed con
tracts covering more than 3500 cabs.
For the first time in 12 years the
drivers received an increase in pay.
plus numerous benefits. And for the
first time each driver received a copy
of the union contract and could
attend regul^ monthly membership
meetings.
The Chicago American hailed the
end of mob rule in the taxi union.
"Glimco." it said, "maintained his
rule over the union local by violence
and treated the union's money as
his own."
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That's the late Johnny Yarmola, at left,during a meeting whereSlUPresident
Paul Hall talked with the cab drivers. Yarmola was instrumental in helping
the Chicago union shake off the shackles of Glimko's crime-backed
organization.
It should be remembered that Paul
Hall and the SIU had a special
reason for wanting to climb into the
ring against the Teamsters. In 1960
Hoffa cooked up a grandiose scheme
to bring all longshoremen and
marine workers into the Teamsters
through a proposed Conference of
Transportation Unity. This plot
included alliances with Joe Curran's
National Maritime Union and Harry
Bridge's International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's Asso
ciation.
^ , Hoffa moved
As part of this plan,
into Lakes shipping and tried to take
over one of the SIU fleets there. He
also set up the Marine Officers
Association to raid the Masters,
Mates and Pilots and the Marine
Engineers Beneficial Association
jurisdictions. He was unsuccessful
in the raid against the officers and
in the attempt to muscle in on the
SIU's fleet on the Lakes. But it
was a strong signal of his over-all
intentions^
"James Hoffa," said an editorial
in the Chicago American, "is
determined that the Teamsters shall
boss the waterfront workers and the
seamen, thus controlling all of the
nation's transport facilities for
freight except the railroads and the
airlines. Paul Hall is determined that
if any such nation-wide control is
exercised it will be done by the
seamen."
Paul Hall, left foreground, and Dominic Abata, left background, are hustled
off to jail in a Chicago paddywagon after a brawl erupted following a •
ceremony during which the SIU president presented Abata s cab drivers
with a SlU/AFL-CIO charter.
goons invaded the joint and a real
donnybrook erupted.
"We fought our way out,"said
Leslie, "but it was a close call—a
real knuckle-busting brawl."
Later that evening Hall walked
into a meeting of Teamster big-wigs
A Close Call
at a nearby hotel, gave them the
Hall's outspoken opposition to the
revolver and said, "Here's your gun.
Teamsters chief almost cost him his I don't want any Teamster property^'
life in Chicago in 1960. After a
This was one of several assasimeeting of the AFL-CIO Executive nation attempts on Hall during his
Council, Hall and Steve Leslie, head often-stormy career as head of the
~ of the Operating Engineers, were militant sailors. In later years he
seated at a restaurant table when- never made much of these brushes
the head of a Chicago Teamster local
with death. "It you want to get into
came up, took out a gun concealed
the battle you have to expect the
in his hat and said to Hall "Do you licks,"he once said.
want it now or outside?"
In retaliation for the defeat in
Leslie distracted the gunman's Chicago Hoffa turned to Philadel
attention and brushed his arm aside. phia, with an all-out raid against
enabling Hall to take the gun. When shops under contract to the SIU's
they manged to get around the table United Industrial Workers^ Union 7and grab the intruder, other Teamster This soon became another major
Seafarers-Teamsters confrontation
and will be the subject of the next
chapter in the union history.
Hoffa tries Again
The late Paul Hall addresses one of the first membership meetings of
the new Chicago cab union.
The Chicago fight resumed in
1964 when Abata's contracts with
the cab companies were soon to
expire and Hoffa and Glimco were
determined to regain control. Again,
the SIU turned to with manpower
and expertise to help its taxi affiliate.
A three-week campaign was
directed on the spot by Paul Hall
and SIU Vice President Earl "Bull"
Shepard, with other union officials
and a crew of seasoned sailors who
hel^d organize, protected drivers,
distributed literature and discour
aged any Teamster intimidation.
Hoffa was on hand with his top
lieutenants and a pledge of unlimited
financial help to insure a Glimco
victory.
There were no Marquis of
Queensberry rules in this battle. It
was slam-bang, knock-down all the
way, with SIU officials and troops
right in the thick of it.
A Savage Incident
In one savage incident a stick of
dynamite was placed under the hood
of a car driven by Abata. The car
was used that day, however, by
organizer Joe Longmeyer. The bomb
exploded and Longmeyer lost a leg.
In Abata, the SIU had a brawling
partner who fought just as tough as
he talked. He had braved Chicago
mobsters for years, had been
bloodied by fists and lead pipes and
never threw in the towel.
In an election held in May of 1965
the SIU retained representation for
more than 5,000 cab drivers and
garage workers by a vote of 3,081
to 1,612.
The Teamsters had spent
$250,000 in its attempt to dump the
SIU and had lined up 50 local unions
for Glimco. These were awesome
odds, but the SIU's organizing
"know-how", its strike-skilled
sailors and its promise to keep a
democratic union and good condi
tions for Chicago drivers beat the
odds two to one.
Once more little David had
floored Goliath, gaining national
recognition and prestige in the
process.
"They told me the SIU was a
clean union and a democratic union."
Abata said. "That's what we wanted
here."
December 1982
LOG 37
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Dear Brother Stewards & Bosuns,
I have just finished my Stewards RecertifLcation Program in
Piney Point, and I noticed that the Paul Hall Library and Mari
time Museum is really short of hard cover and soft fiction and
nonfiction books.
I know from being on other ships that there is always an
abundance of hard cover books. Some of them are thrown over
board to make room for the new ones. If we aU send at least
one box of books to Piney Point, we should have a pretty good
library. And with the new motel being built there, I know you
and your families will enjoy reading them when you aU go
down there for your vacation next year.
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Viae President
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Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship
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I want to thank you all for everything that has been done for
me. Beheve me, don't retire. It's lougy. I wish I could go back to
sea. But I can't. The doctors said I am getting along pretty good
on my cancer operations. I had one scare. But they think thgy
caught it m time last year. Now it's nothing but doctors, doc
tors, doctors.
Beheve me—If you can still go to sea, don't stop or else you'U
be sorry! I never saved. It was whiskgy, women and gambling.
And beheve me, it's rough.
I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy
New Year.
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'A most welcome raise'
Recently, I was pleasantly suprised to receive a most welcome
raise in the amount of my Social Security check. At first I
thought it was a computer mistake and contacted the Social Security office. But the clerk verified it.
Then I remembered that Sea-Land, our SlU-contracted com
pany, requested permission to go through their payrohs with
my name to find "extra earnings" that could have been missed
the first time around. This is the only way I can accoimt for
tbi.q "bonanza" and I want to be properly grateful to them, the
Social Security Administration, and our tTnion for it.
I trust that others, too, have benefitted In this maimer, and. If
they haven't, they may m the future.
.
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This year fishing was good inside and outside the Golden
Gate Bridge. I brought home 15 salmon: the smallest was 5
pounds; the largest, 30.1 also caught 3 Pacific hahbut (the
largest was 26 pounds) and two sturgeon (45 Inches and 50
inches).
I wish to say hello to all my old shipmates. I hope everyone
has a merry Christmas and that the New Year will be good to
all my friends.
Reino J*. Pelaso P-8
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'My way of sajring tbanks'
I retired in 1975 and just spent four days^hi the hospital. I
was amazed at the prompt processing of my claim. I didn't
know oup welfare plan was that good since neither my wife
nor I had ever been ui the hospital. Since I live 200 miles from
Jacksonville, would you please turn this check over to S.PA-D.
It's my way of saying thanks to a great union and the people
who nm it.
Sure would like to see some of the old gang from the S/S
PUERTO RICO. I haven't been m the S.I.U. Hall for years
because it's so far away.
Good luck to you and thanks.
•
Henri B. Stark 8-377
Vero Beach, Florida
EDITOR'S NOTE: The check was acknowledged and turned oveiL
to the appropriate office in the new S.LU. Headquarters
building in Camp Springs, Md.
'My proudest accomplislunent'
I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to the staff of the Aca
demic Department at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship for the help and encouragement afforded me hi
my quest for a General Education Diploma.
My thanks to the staff, including Sandy, who helped me in
the studies of Science; Roger, who brought my math average
up from 49 to 74; Mary, who helped me hi English and showed
me little tricks in correcting my mistakes; and last but not
least Faye, whose joshhig and encouragement made studying apleasure. Thgy all helped me achieve a, score I an^veiy proud
of.
I have always wanted to get my high school diploma, but
have never had the thne. Phigy Point and its staff allowed me
to achieve this goal.
Achieving my G.E.D. is my proudest accomplishment of any
thing I have done academically.
Again I say "Thanks" to Phiey Pohit and its staff.
V
Victor Bomdo
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A Case of Simple Justice
For nearly 200 years the medical
needs of America's seamen were
handled by the U.S. government
through the Public Health Service
network of hospitals and clinics.
This was only appropriate since
the life of a merchant seaman—the
excessive shipboard hazards, the
unavailability of medical care at
sea—meant that the government had
to step in if it wanted to maintain
an adequate merchant marine for
the nation's defense and commerce.
Then, over the past couple of
decades, cuts were made in the PHS
system that reduced the hospitals to
only eight. Over the years there Were
attempts under various Adminis
trations to close down the entire
system of hospitals and clinics. The
SIU always fought these attempts
and always won.
Finally, however, in 1981 the last
blow struck. In October of that year
the Reagan Administration, with the
consent of Congress, closed the
doors on the PHS hospitals. Once
again, it was a take away with no
concern for the human conse
quences.
It was a blow to all those who
used the facilities—^the merchant
seamen who made up a third of the
caseload; the Coast Guard per
sonnel; the various groups of civil
servants who received medical
treatment, and many others.
But for American seamen, insult
has been added to injury. While the
other beneficiaries of the former
PHS system are allowed access to
other-U.S. government medical
facilities, merchant seamen are not.
We feel that this is an oversight
on the part of the government and
the SIU is therefore actively sup
porting a move to haye Congres
sional legislation introduced to put
matters right .
We feel that justice dem^ds that
merchant seamen be accorded the
same rights as other beneficiaries.
^
This
inequity appears to us to be
present Administration's pull-backs to merchant
thought to the consequences.
Frozen Out
Not only is the seaman personally
:UCial guvwiiiiiiV'iit.
government,
hurt, but the entire American mar were still trying to save the PHS Federal
The
PHS system has been
PresidentrranKurozaK
Frank Drozak
^
itime industry is adversely affected system, SIU President
told
a
Congressional
Committee,
removed
for
seamen.
But
it
is
only
since the money for the seaman's
the pnncipai
principal facbeneficianes
lac- fair
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the shipowners. The seaman and his tors which warranted a health care of the system, Amenca s merchant
system [for merchant mariners be afforded an alternative
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employer are being unfairly taxed. delivery
seaman] under the auspices of the service.
Ba9k in June of 1981 when we
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SHIP: A Health Program With Built-in Hazards
For the past five years, a small
group of government workers,
doctors, union officials, and industry
representatives have been meeting
to formulate a uniform set ofregulatioris governing health and safety
standards on American-flag vessels.
The pace of government being
what it is, the committee's work is
still in the exploratory stage. Yet
the committee, known as the Sea
farers (no relation to the SIU) Health
Improvement Program, or SHIP, has
been closely monitored by the SIU
because it has the potential to dras
tically change the lives of our
members, for better and for worse.
Seamen's lives are at stake. And
so are their jobs.
Health care for American seamen
is one of the least publicized mar
itime issues. It has always been
inadequate. American flag vessels
have never carried enough medical
equipment, or even the right kind
of medical equipment.
In many ways, the SIU applauds
the efforts of SHIR They are seeking
to correct a bad situation. They want
to make shipowners meet certain
mininium safety requirements.
Unfortunately SHIP has been
toying with certain programs that every issue affecting American owe will jeopardize the job security
of our members, not even in the
threaten the individual rights and seamen.
We want to make sure that no name of good health.
privacy of every man and woman
sailing onboard American flag ves
sels.
One of the things they , propose
is that a permanent Record Book
be kept for every documented mer
chant sailor.
Offidol PKblicalion of (ho Soofareis livlw^ond Union rf
\tol. 44, No. 12
North Amoiko, AHontic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Vfaters Dotnel,
The SIU is fearful that such a
December 1982
AFI.CIO
medical book may be utilized to
Executive Board
disqualify seamen from employ
Frank Drozak
President
ment. While the union believes that
Leon Hair^
Ed Turner
a central records system is a good
Joe DiGiorglo
Vice President
Executive Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer
idea, it feels that such a system
Joe Sacco
Mike Sacco
Angus "Red" Campbell
Vice
President
should be on a completely voluntary
Vice
President
Vice President
basis. Moreover, safeguards need
George McCartney
Vice President
to be devised to protect the indi
Log Staff
vidual rights of American seamen.
LOG
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We believe that information from
a central records system should
remain confidential unless an
employee gives his written consent.
And in no way can that consent be
coerced by an employer or a medical
examining entity.
The SHIP Committee is one of
the best kept secrets in Washington.
Very few people know of its exist
ence. But we at the SIU have made
it our business to keep abreast of
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Charles Svenson
Editor
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Marietta Homayonpour
Associate Editor
New York
Ray Bourdlus
Assistant Editor
Washington
Max Hall
Assistant Editor
New York
Lynette Marshal
Assistant Editor
Washington
Dennis Lundy
Photography
Deborah Greene
Editqrial/Administrativa
Assistant
George Viana
Production/Graphics
Frank ClanclottI
Photography
DonRotan
Assistant Editor
San Francisco
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HEADLINES
DROZAK, REP. ADDABBO URGE MARITIME REFORMS
DROZAK: PASS PASSENGER SHIP CONVENTION BILL
GERRY BROWN IS RECOVERING AFTER SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT
SIU TAKES LEAD TO PROTECT U.S. JOBS IN MARITIME VENEZUALA TARRIF BEEF
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN: REMEMBER YOUR LETTER COUNTS
NEW YORK PORT COUNCIL HONORS MCKAY AS ‘MAN OF THE YEAR’
SIU CONTINUES MERGER INITIATIVE WITH NMU
CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE
MONDALE ON MARITIME
TROUBLE BREWING
MARITIME AUTHORIZATIONS
SHIPPING AND THE ECONOMY
LABOR ROUNDUP
UNITED STATES VS. THE WORLD
MEDICAL BENEFITS
A MATTER OF HEALTH
SIU AND NMU MEET WITH NAVY PENTAGON BRASS
DROZAK VISITS STRIFE-TORN CENTRAL AMERICA
SEAFARERS APPEALS BOARD ANNOUNCES ACTION ON TRANSPORTATION, REGISTRATION
SAB ACTION NO. 268
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
MOKU PAHU GETS A ROYAL ALOHA IN HONOLULU
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION A SKILL ALL SEAFARERS SHOULD KNOW
AMA’S AL MASKIN RETIRES, WAS SIU LOG STAFFER
SEAFARER EXHIBITS PHOTO SKILLS IN ART SHOW
EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO JOB SECURITY
SIU AND CROWLEY MARITIME SPONSOR WORKING SEMINAR FOR TANKERMAN
SEAFARER CRAFT SHIP MODELS WITH MATCH STICKS AND PATIENCE
SIU’S DR. AMENDOLA IS CITED FOR LONG YEARS OF DEDICATION
MEMORIAL SERVICE IS HELD FOR WAITRESS LOST AT SEA
SIU HEADQUARTERS IS NOW LOCATED IN WASHINGTON
MINIX OPENS SUBIC BAY POST
SEAFARER KATZOFF REMEMBERS: PART II
PAT MCGOVERN ‘SOON CAME TO BE ONE OF US’
SANTA CLARA READIES FOR RUN TO SOUTH AMERICA
THE CHICAGO CAB STORY: DAVID TAKES ON MIGHTY GOLIATH
A CASE OF SIMPLE JUSTICE
SHIP: A HEALTH PROGRAM WITH BUILT-IN HAZARDS
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1982
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