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t." • €>EATTLe \ • Joint Picket Action r' , Affects 160 Vessels NEW YORK, Dee. 4—Jolnriy led by tho SiUNA and NMU, the American union - ?: •.. protest on the runaways produced the following results as of 10 PM (EST) tonlghtt b 160 runaway ships affected in 20 poets. b Only 23 ships escaped from behind picketiines. Most of them left with little or no cargo handled, and i/dthout tugs or pilots. 4. " b Injunctions halted picketing on only six ships, b No American-flag ship lost time due to picketing in any port. —Complete Details on Page 3 . . ?'y^' - • •••• •' l' •

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The following are tom* direct gtiotei .from Judge Bryan'* decision in u^ich he refused to glM tunawcty shipowners Hopes entertained by American owners of runaway tonnage that the US an injunction against demonstrations hy But American maritims courts would block united labor demonstrations against them< were deflated by unions.) ^ the decision isisued by Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan, lit addi^n to » » » refusing to issue an in-^ front when the National Labor Re­ ing that any fraud or violence has f'The Taft-Hartley Act ... doies not authorize any per­ junction against the SIU lations Board ruled that the run­ been CT will be resorted to lo as son aggrieved by unfair labor piractices to bring suit in and the National Maritime away ship SS Florida was actually to bring the case within those sec­ the courts ... the National Labor Relations Board is given Union, the judge suggested subject to US labor law. The Board tions of the Nonis-La Guardla Act aclusive primary jurisdiction. . , the runaways go to the Na­ held then that the corporate man­ which autbo^e injunctive relief "... the first eonsideraticm is wfaeth^ thk is a case in- tional Labor Relations Board ipulations Involved in the transfer by the courts under such excep­ Tidvins or srowiaf out of a labor dispute. I think that It dearly is . .. If they had a complaint. of the ship to a runaway flag did tional circumstances." ". .. it Is not for the court to say whether or not the defendant li la the opinion in the Industry not change the realities of the sit­ However, he still left the com­ unions are wise in pursuing the course they seek to follow ... As that the runaway operators would uation—namely that it was an plaint on the calendar stating that long as their activities concern terms or conditions of employment be extremely reluctant to so near American ship engaged in Ameri­ he would study the unions' request ... or the representation of persona in negotiating . . . the case the Labor Board for the simple can commerce. for a dismissal. > involves or growr out of a labor dispute and the courts are pro­ reason that It would Involve ae- In his decisV>n, Judge Bry.-ui Judge Bryan's ruling was the hibited from Interfering with such peaceful activities . . .. third recent action which indicated fcnowledslnr the fact that they are told the runaways that he lacked 'Legitimate Labor Objectives' ossentlaUy American businesses. Jurisdletioii ever the issue. ''This that the American-owned run­ In turn, that would mean their court," he said, "has no Jurisdio- away flag Ships come under the "I find nothing in the Norris-LaGuardia Act, or the Sherman I"' crews could be organized by Uie tion over this action, the subject Jurisdiction of US law. Just last Act, or indeed in any other statute which prevents . . .American I 611} and other maritime unions. matter of which Is udthln the cz- week, another Federal court Judge labor nnions from acliiis in concert . . . wiUi fweign trade unions Up until now. the runaways have clu^ve Jurisdiction of the board," ruled that an American-owned run­ ... to carry out legitimate labor objectives in the course of a labor been able to evade the Jurisdiction referring to the NLRB. away ship was subject to lawsuit dispute ... of US labor law by claiming that The Judge also upheld the claim by a seaman under the Jones Act, . . the plaintiffs find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. they were actually foreign busi­ presented by SIU and NMU at­ even though the ship was reg­ The remedy against unfair labor practices condemned by the Taft- nesses. However, last May the torneys that the unions were in­ istered under another fla^ (See Hartley Act lies exclusively under that Act . . . • person aggrieved SIU scored a major breakthrough volved In a "peaceful protest" }n story on page .5.) The Jones Act must-first appeal to the NLRB . . . - I . on East and Gulf coast ships. It Other Improvements call for sold or transferred foreign. gives the Mates the full West overtime pay while, working cargo Nine issues that are up for fur­ Coast contract, plus 28 items from in foreign ports on weekdays be­ ther negotiation include organiza­ Readying o couple of turkeys for the Thanksgiving Day dinner, the agreement they negotiated tween 5 PM and 8 AM, greater or­ tional security, relief deck officers, with a group of shipping companies ganizational security, overtime pay shifting ship, seniority lists, ship- headquarters cafeteria chef Al Clark does a little basting with the in Mobile last August. Nine other gravy. » at sea and in port, and a miniifium ping of relief Jobs through tho items from the Mobile agreement manning scale of two 3rd mates On MM&P hiring hall, and coastwise will be renegotiated by the mates Seafarers and members of their families had their fill of all four-mate ships. Maintenance reliefs. Negotiations will resume f-•'' •• and the Institute In the next two and cure coverage has been won December 8 in New York. i: holiday fare at the six-course Thanksgiving dinner in New weeks. If they fail to reach agree­ for masters, and first-class air The new 3-year agreenaent will ft, York last week. Sixteen large turkeys,.80 pounds of prime ment, the items will be submitted transportation for all mates. In expire June 15,1961. rh-' ribs of beef and 40 pounds of^" to Meany for arbitration. w ham were eagerly attacked by included cream of turkey soup and Among' the key gains of the m. 628 Seafarers and their adult shrimp cocktail, chefs salad, yams, award are welfare benefits of $50 guests plus about 75 children. creamed onions, whipped pptatoes, a week for up to 39 weeks when a Coast Guard Alters Rules Besides the entrees, the menu asparagus tips, mince, pumpkin mate is sick or hospitalized, an in- I ft be punctmred by a W-'-' KAN. Art Editor, H»MAN AETHUB. lawn Where facilities for preparing and ment for life preservers used on snag. SnvAOc. AL MASXIN. JOHN BBAZIL, AHA- bave a proper mailing address •OLB iMWorr, Stair Writer*. Bnx MOODT. serving food are not available in on file with the company. SIU passenger, ships ^and will affect Since vinyl is available in lim­ lift Oulf Area Repreeentatioei the Union's halls, arrangements headquarters officials point out merchant vesselsr ited quantities, the order Will ap- were made with nearby restaurants that reports recdved from sev­ , The oi^der was issued after a se­ gly only to the future production PubMfhaU blwMfcly at MM hBaUaoartar* to accommodate Seafarers and eral operators show checks have ries of! tests showed that tinder of these types of preservers. A Pft:hi'--'- ' ef tha Saafarara Intarnotlonal Union, At­ their families. lantic • Ovif Olitrlct, AFL-CIO, «7S Fourth been mailed to one address, certain ! condMion# gasoline and provision was also included in the "(f, ; Avanuo Brooklyn >8, NY. T*l. HYaelnth The Tiijoiksgiving Dinner Is a order to allow present life pre­ M4S0. , Socona claw postago paid while a beef on the same score light oil films tended to have>a at tha Post Offico In Brooklyn. NY. undor preliminary warm-up for a similar dctrlmeiital e;ffect on' the btiby^y servers made: jyithout ribe vinyl «w Act of Aoe. as. ins. is sent from another, thlis cre­ affair which will be held on Christ­ ating much difficulty In keeping of life preservers with kapok and bags to remain in service if they mas Day in aU SIU ports, follow­ iccounUf straight. fibrous glass-pads. It was found are In good cohditlons and meet ing Union tradition. .1't I'..' that sealing these pads in other requirem^Si'< - - V

"S; -DMMAOT I. IfIt SEAFARERS toe Vtc* IfbiM 111US Unions Hit 160 Runaways 4-Day Protest Is Big Success Spearheaded jointly by the SIU and NMU, a dra­ matic demonstration of American support for the worldwide union protest against runaway-flag shipping was successfully concluded ships flying the flags of Panama, late yesterday after 96 Liberia, Costa Rica and Honduras. Plans for the American demon­ hours of picketing by sea stration were set up at a meeting men in 20 US ports. in New York November 24 called' by SIUNA president Paul Hall and The protest staged by NMU president Joseph Curran, as co-chairmen of the American ITF the American Committee Committee. of the International TranS' Summing up the impact of the Two former SlU-manned ships which ran away, the Atlantic Wdter and Gulf Water, lie dead behind portworkers Federation af beef in a joint statement issued a picket line in Baltimore. fected a total of 160 runaway last night, co-chairmen Hall and Curran declared: "The effective united action of the American maritime unions proves their de­ Runaways Learn termination to resolve this critical problem. The unions will now sur­ vey the effects-of the protests as a means of determining the course They Can't Hide of our future action." "We got them scattered from hell to yonder , , was the Shannon Wall, Vice-president of report clicked out by teletype froni New Orleans all week the NMU, and Cal Tanner, SIU vice-president who coordinated the as the ITF runaway ship demonstration picked up steam activities of the two unions de­ New Orleans had 24-hour clared the success of the operation • i. picket squads and a couple of ets dressed in down east foul was a result of tiie officic-nov and picket boats roving right into weather gear appeared on a local cooperation among the unions m the bayou country to keep tabs on television show and went back to ail ports. All hands worked as one, the more than 20 runaways in the their posts where Liberian-flag su­ they said, and despite the vastness Crescent City's port area. pertankers were hung up. of the beef it came off without a * * « • • • hitch anywhere. Seattle had the Liberian super­ Mobile had the Liberian run­ Picketlines in the ports where tanker Neapolis locked up tight at away Ampala in hand, which was runaway ships showed up were Anacortes, Wash., until three com­ empty when picketing began and manned jointly by SIUN.\ and pany officials of Foss Tug & Barge empty when she skipped port with­ NMU affiliates, along with the Ma- out tugs or a pilot. Owners of that one should have a bit of trouble SIU of NA President Paul Hall and NMU President Joseph Curron One Gone when they bring her back to Ala­ Costa Rica, one of the four Canada SIU took turn on line down at Erie Basin, New York. They were picket­ bama after flouting state law bar­ "Panhonlibco" nations, has com­ ring any sailing minus tugs or a Pickets 14 ing the SS Houston. peted plans to cancel the reg­ pilot. A couple of ITF pickets ap­ MONTREAL—Critically af­ istry of runaway-flag ships peared iive on television in Port­ fected by the runaway-flag under her flag, effective Decem­ land, Oregon, complete with picket gimmick that has reduced Can­ ber 31. The action involves signs and ITF leaflets, to tell their ada's deep-sea merchant fleet IZZ ships and affects some 810,- case to the public. They did so to less than 20 ships, the SIU 000 deadweight tons of ship­ well, the local papers upped cov­ Canadian District picketed ping. erage on the runaway protest story on both coasts and the Lakes, The bill passed by the Costa the next morning . . . Five ships tying up 14 runaways that Rican iegislature cancels all were tied up there. showed up in seven ports. The licenses that are in arrears im­ * « * vessels were picketed until the mediately and the rest at the One major benefactor of the end of the four-day demon­ end of the year. The IZZ ships world-wide demonstration are the stration led by SIUNA vice- brought the country $100,000 a rope and paint companies. Unable president Hal C. Banks. All year in revenue, or less than to get any type of service in port, moves to block the Canadian $1,000 each for the privilege of some ships just cut lines and picketing by injunctions failed evading US wage scales and the drifted out, hopeful of gaining completely. 52 percent US corporation tax sanctuary in another port. Others, like the Panamanian Helen H. in New Orleans, painted out their rine Engineers Beneficial Associ­ pushed aside the regular tug crew, names in a bid to hide their iden­ ation, Masters, Mates & Pilots, took over the boat and tried to tity from roving picket squads. The American Radio Association and move the big ship out. pickets stayed with them anyway. the Radio Officers Union. Efforts The runaway ship West Princess was one of more than 20 vessels Typical of the trade union spirit of local ITF port committees, hung up in New Orleans by the joint action of American maritime that predominated throughout the which gained the support of thou­ unions. beef was the reaction of the tug's sands of workers in all phases of crew ... They Jumped over the the maritime industry, were co­ side to an ITF picket boat standing ordinated by Cal Tanner, SIUNA by. The tugmen, members of the vice-president, and NMU vice- Inland Boatmen's Union, said they president Shannon Wall. didn't want to have any part In The port distribution of ships letting the runaway get away . . . showed that New Orleans and She left without a pilot also. Philadelphia bore the brunt of the « * * demonstrations, each having more In New York, operators of the than 20 ships hung up. New York, Liberian freightship Panagiotis as a package cargo port, had a showed they didn't care much smaller number, since the runaways what flag they flew if they eould are primarily bulk cargo carriers. get their ship serviced . ^ . An­ On the Pacific Coast, Morris chored out in the stream, the Pan­ Weisberger, SIUNA first vice- agiotis pulled down the Liberian president and secretary-treasurer flag at 4 AM Tuesday, ran up the of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, 6|:eek ensign and waited for busi­ .directed joint picketing activities ness. When none came, she upped by the .SUP, Marine Firemen, Ma­ rine Cooks and Stewards and West anchor at 3 PM Tuesday heading Coordinating American pro­ for Boston, where, she was tied up Coast branches of the NMU and Wednesday all over again. test, SIUNA v-p Col Tanner the officers unions. .. t * • (center) and NMU. v-p Shan­ Due to the combined US effort, Philadelphia, piekat boats madt life miserable for: rundwa^ : Snow boots were the order of non Wall (right) check ship only 23 runaways were able to skip Sign on pilot house tells.iwhoie story. i i A i the day In Portland^ Maine. Pick- moves with Pogor, NMU. (Contjintt^ on page 5.>

^.1 SEAFAMERS LOG i, l»Bt - r " I w SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING HOARD November 12 Through November 25, 1958 Ship Acfiyify SIU shipping showed a healthy increase last period, re­ The seniority totals indicate no change for class A, a slight dip for Per SiOR In > flecting a 35 percent rise over the previous report. The total class B and a corresponding rise,for industry newcomers in class C. Offs Oas Trans. TOTAL number of men dispatched was 1,126. Registration rose also, The proportion of jobs for class A was 69 percent, plus 22 percent for iofltM 1 1 1 3 to 1,138. Thus, the number of men registered on the beach by the end class B and the remaining nine percent for "C" men. These figures New Yerfc ... 27 8 13 40 of the period was virtually the same as before. The rise in shipping represent proportions of the total jobs shipped and have been virtual­ HdledelpMn.. 4 3 10 17 was across the board, covering all three departments. ly constant for many months. leMiiere ... 9 2 11 . 22 All SIU ports handled a total of ^8 ships, including 61 payoffs, 28 A recap of the men on the beach at the end of the period shows NerfoHi ..... 1 2 7 11 •ign-ons and 119 in-transit vessels. New York, New Orleans and Bal­ seven ports with IfiO or less men on the beach in all departments, pee 1 8 9 timore again accounted for the bulk of these, 96 all told. The heavy among them Boston, Norfolk, Savannah, Tampa, Lake Charles, Wil­ Tompn ...... —" _ 4 4 activity didn't do much good for shipping in Baltimore, however. (See mington and Seattle. San Francisco follows with 107 and Philadelphia Mobile 7 1 i 13 '^hip Activity" summary at right.) with 109. Savannah, Tampa, Lake Charles and Wilmington also have 50 or less class top seniority (class A) men on hand. Norfolk has 51. New Orle«M . I 2 - 19 28 Eight ports shared in the overall shipping rise. Tampa showed no Lake ClMrles . ~ real change and five others declined. Shipping in New York was more The following is the forecast port hy port: Boston: Very slow .•. . 8 i than double the previous report, producing the highest dispatch total New York: Still good . . . Philadelphia: Fair . . . Baltimore: Fair . . . Neusten .... 1 2 18 19 for that port in five years. Philadelphia, Norfolk, Savannah, New Or­ Norfolk: Fkir. . . Savannah: Slow . . . Tampa: Quiet . . . Mobile: Should WHmliigfaa . — 7 7 leans, Houston, Wiluiington and Seattle also gained. On the downside, pick up sgein . . . New Orleans: Good . . . Lake Charles: Just fair . . . See Fraedsce. 2 1 8 10 Mobile slumped, Boston shipped no jobs at all and Baltimore, Lake Houston: Still busy . . . Wilmington: Slow . . . San Franeisoo: Fair . . . Seatrie 1 4 7 14 Charges and San Francisco fell off again. SeatOe: Good. TOTALS ... 81 28 119 208 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Roglsterod On The Booth CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GBOUP GROUP Port 12 3 12 3 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL ABC ALL 121ALL I ^2 3 ALL Boston 2 4 — 6 2 1 3 — 8 20 2 30 1 5 *3 9 New York 30 46 18 94 11 12 25 31 73 28 132 15 13 31 10 8 19 132 31 19 182 88 158 43 289 2 20 25 47 Philadelphia 5 10 19 — — 4 4 3 8 5 16 — 2 2 16 2 — 18 14 20 4 38 2 5 7 Baltimore 11 28 46 2 4 6 12 8 10 23 1 1 2 — 1 1 23 2 1 26 38 92 13 143 21 47 71 Norfolk 3 8 12 1 4 5 10 3 7 11 2 — 2 11 2 — 13 9 15 2 22 8 7 11 Savannah 1 2 — 1 1 1 6 10 — 1 1 10 1 — n 1 4 — 5 — i 1 Tampa 1 1 — 1 1 — 1 — 1 1 1 1 -- 2 1 4 1 f Mobile 9 21 34 2 1 3 6 8 8 19 — 3 3 — 2 19 3 2 24 26 38 7 71 2 1 6 9,. New Orleans 16 28 48 2 8 13 23 10 20 36 2 6 8 2 2 36 8 4 48; 42 62 14 lit 1 12 13 20 Lake. Charles 1 2 3 1 — 2 2 2 2 — 9 1 10 1 1 5 7 Houston 7 20 27 1 S 3 9 10 21 37 — 1 37 43 24 34 3 •1 2 S 15 Wilmington 4 2 6 2 2 4' 1 4 7 7 7 6 -11 — 17 2 2 9 San Francisco.. 9 9 23 1 5 6: 2 10 14 — 2 0 14 6 — 20 12 i2 2 26 1 — 7 Seattle 11 6 19 — 3 4 7 4 5 12 — 4 8 12 8 — 20 14 11 2 27 — 1 8 TOTAtS 108 186 46 340~11 41 62* 114 82 172 66 3201 3 27 37 l7 14 14 29320 67 29 416 279 490 94 863 19 79 135 233 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered C in The Beach ' * ! CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B

A A GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP Pert 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1' Boston 3 ' 3 3 3 • 1 , 1 12 1 14 6 • 6 New York 17 50 9 76 5 23 13 41 12 74 11 97 3 21 18 42 3 11 14 97 42 14 153 •69 148 23 230 7 31 25 63 Philadelphia — 10 1 11 — 4 4 8 12 1 13 2 3 5 _ _ 13 5 • 18 18 2 20 ' 6 6 12 Baltimore 2 36 5 43 —- 4 8 12 1 13 4 18 1 1 --4 6 18 6 24 8 98' 9 lis 1 34 25 60 Norfolk 1 6 1 8 — 5 2 7 1 1 2 1 2 3 _ 2 3 5 1 15 2 18 2 12 6 20 Savannah 2 5 — 7 — — 2 2 1 6 — 7 ' 3 3 3 s 7 3 3 13 1 6 — 7 — 2 2 Tampa — 4 — 4 . — 3 — 3 — 4 4 2 2 _ 4 2 — 6 — 4 1 5 2 — 2 Q Mobile 3 19 5 27 7 s 13xo V 4 10xw fj • 10xw a0 18Aw X0IS 45 4 44WW X g 12 New Orleans 8 34 3 45 4 7 5 16 6 21 2 29 2 5 4 11 ~8 "o 14 29 11 14 54 25 59 7 91 2 7 8 17 Lake Charles — 3 — 3 —. 1 3 4 1 1 1 3 4 1 4 ... 5 1 6 ' 7 2 1 3 Houston 6 23 1 30 — 9 5 14 5 24 4 33 7 6 13 , _ 2 It S3 13 2 48 13 25. 3 41 3 10 5 18 Wilmington — 7 1 8 _ 1 1 6 6 1 1 6 1 7 2 14 1 17 1 6 6 San Francisco 2 13 4 19 — 2 1 3 2 12 __ 14 1 2 4 . 7 14 7 — 21 7 21 2 30 — 4 1 5 Seattle 2 8 3 13 — 4 4 1 9 1 11 — 1 7 8 — 11 8 — 19 1 12 — 13 1 5 3 9 TOTALS 43 221 33 297 9 •—68 54 131 29 189 27 245 7 43 58 108 13 20 S3 245 108 33 386 134 483 55 672 17 131 94 242 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered Oh The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B '•A/- GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP fOrff 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL

Boston — __ MM MM MM - . ___ MM MM MM MM 2 2 4 2 2 J 13 1 5 19 4 4 New York 22 11 33 66 2 13 15 34 15 51 100 . MM 4 15 19 'MM 1 22 28 100 19 23 142 94 .34 112 240 2 2 28 32 Philadelphia 6 1 4 11 — 3 3 4 3 5 12 MM MM 4 ' 4 MM MM MM 12 4 16 13 3 8- 24 1 ' 7 8 Baltimore 13 4 17 34 12 12 4 1 3 8 1 ,1 . 4 8 ^M MM , M- - 8 5 MM 13 44 18 34 96 2 4 85 41 Norfolk 1 2 3 6 1 2 4' 7 4 — . 1 5 1 MM 4 5 MM MM MM 5 5 10 . 6 3 ' 2 11 8 4 7 14 Savannah 2 — 2 4 1 MM 1 2 1 4 7 1 .M 1 2 MM 2 2 7 2 2 11 5 2 1 8 — — Tampa 2 — 5 7 _ — 1 1 1 1 MM' MM 1 1 2 5 1 7 13 1 1 _ Mobile 6 2 5 13 10 10 2 — 7 9 MM MM 2 2 MM - MM MM'. 9 2 WWM 11 22 14 27 M — 14 14 New Orleans 11 — 34 45 _ IS 15 3 1 30 34 MM _ 17 17 MM MM 7 7 84 17 7 58 40 9 t» 118 — 1 21 22

— Mi—" MM MM MM MM — Lake Charles..... 1 1 2 2 2 3 — 1 ' 4 - • ' 2 2 «M 4 2 6 2 1 3 — 4 4 Hoiiston 10 3 3 16 1 1 6 8 7 11 18 1 6 7 MM MM MM MM 18 7 MM 25 23 5 8 31 1 1 5 7

MM >— Wilmington 1 1 — 2 — _ 2 2 1 1 1 3 •• 1 1 • MM MM MM 3 1 4 3 3 3 9 1 7 8 San Francisco 10 2 4 16 — 4 4 5 4 9 2 1 8 MM 'MM MM 9 3 MM 12 16 3 12 31 — 1 7 8 Seattle 4 — 3 7 — 2 2 1 1 4 6 3 MM' 4 7 MM MM 1 1 6 7 1 14 11 1 3 15 — 1 4 8 TPW 91 26 116 233 •—3 5 75 83 70 23 123 210 9 5 61 75 1 32 33 216 75 33 924 297 98 286 681 9 15 144 168 SUMMARY Registered Registered Shipped Sharped Shipped 1 TOTAL Registered 0ht The Beach ' CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASSB GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLAJei§ GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 123 ALL 12 8 AIA^ 1 2 1 AfX 1 9. % Ak.T,l ABC ALL 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL DECK X 108 186 46 1 340 11 41 62 1 114 82 172 66 320 3 27 37 67 1 14 14 29]320 67 29 | 416 279 490 94 j 863 19 79 135 233 MN&ME 43 221 33 1 297 9 68 54 1 131 29 189 27 j 245 7 43 98 109 — 13 20 331249 108 33 | 386 134 483 59 1 672 17 131 94 242 VrfWARIt WX .. .AMI XXw i ^0 • 0K TK/D 1 e9 70WA 23AO 123eoo 216 VA' 5K ' ol09 75WW — T'm. 32OA 83jZ1000*A9B9.) 75AfC ' 33QA 1 'WAX824 297AAW MAA xWOMdi. 1rfVl '0AB w- ' 'xD14C xw%tAA •• tMMX99- b42 p8-_195 1 870 23 114 191 1 32i 181 384 216 .78i] If^ 75 15f .38f{ 1 28 60 XSlTtl 250 95 [IITOITlp ion 435 12216 45 225 373 m I .< "1 t f < . • - • • 1 - - 'ii. • •»• / ;,rt| Deeeaber ». 1M» SEAFARERS LOG "• • " 'Fit® Whig JONES ACT APPLIES:

QUESTION: Do you lind riio protont systom of itsuing draws ogoinft US Court Rules Seamen your boso pay ad^uole? Jim 6^i«t«r, ottUtgr: No. I Charles Oglesby, ABi The Can Sue Runaway Ships would rather thejr allowed us to present system is not fair. If a draw against our man makes the While American seamen were preparing for their role in the worldwide protest agaipst overtime too. As money, let him It la now we have It. I think runaway shipping, a Federal District Court judge in New York ruled that an American- don't have much It is up to each owned runaway operation was subject to injury suits under the Jones Act. The decision, to draw against, guy Individually which held that the creation especially after to make sure he of a rtmaway-flag corporation owners, to avoid stringent shipping pressed beyond the normal foiv •n they take out our saves enough for did not absolve American laws by seeking foreign registra­ mantles of more or lew nominal '•i allotments, taxes when he is paid owners of their obligations, ap­ tion eagerly offered by some coun­ foreign registration to enforce, 4 and other deduc­ off and winds up pears to be another important step tries.' against American shipowners the tions. However I on the beach. But in whittling down the special priv­ "Confronted with such opera­ obiigations which onr law places think the draw the present draw ileges enjoyed by the runaways. tions, onr courts on occasion have upon them." should be limited to assure a man limit Is pretty small when you get Judge Irving R. Kaufman, in of some money when he pays off down to it after the deductions are announcing that he would accept at the end of a voyage. taken out. suit against the owners under the ti 4" Jones Act, declared: C. C. Bridgman, AB: Personally Pete Foti, AB: They should "Under the view pressed by the US Sea Unions Tie Up it doesn't matter that much to me allow us to draw some amount of Compania" [Compania Panaitiena for I try to draw our overtime. Af­ as little as pos­ Maritime San Gersimo SA] "an sible during a ter all, on SIU American owner might escape his Rnnaway-Flag Shipping ships Saturday trip. All they statutory liability merely by inter­ and Sunday over­ take out of my posing a foreign corporation be­ (Continued from page 3) claimed that all the Niarchos tank­ time Is guaran­ tween himself and the vessel, both port, after delays, after being hit by ers got away early Tuesday. pay Is the allot­ teed, so why not ment. However of which, for all practical purposes picketlines or roving picket squads Despite the press releases, the let us have It? the present sys­ he owns . . . 'I do not believe that covering miles of waterfront In World Enterprise and World Bond Many times a tem Is hard on the law can be so easily baffled." cars and picket boats. A few of were still being picketed at Port­ man has a prob­ the men who NLRB RuHng Similar the ships slipped out after being land until 36 hours later, when the lem and has tb have' allotments Judge Kaufman's ruling would serviced by scab labor behind un­ Enterprise skipped after dark Wed­ send money ion picketlines. The rest got away nesday, under cover of a fierce taken out of their pay leaving home, but It is hard to get. I thus appear to follow the same line them with little to draw against. only after cutting their lines, and snowstorm. The World Bond was . would like to see our draw limits of thought expressed by the Na­ still tied to the dock yesterday with They should Increase it in their then minus tugs and pilots and Increased up to about one-third of tional Labor Relations Board when Portland under six inches of snow. case. it ruled that the runaway fiag pas­ with full or half-loads. our OT. Major Injunction Bid Fails Operators who tried the injunc­ senger ship SS Florida was subject t t it In advance of the scheduled pro­ tion route to drive off persistent Max Eustace, DM: I think they i t> to the US Labor Relations Act. The test, a group of runaway tanker picketlines were successful only in should allow us to have more Y. E. (Johnny) Pedrsza, Jr., Board held that the Liberian-flag draws than they FHVT: No, the present draw-limit operators sought an injunction in Mobile, where picketing was vessel and its owners were subject Federal District Court in New York banned on five ships already in do. After all, does not give a to its jurisdiction because the ship we've earned the man enough to to bar the SIU and NMU from tak­ local shipyards, and In Galveston, was actually American-owned and ing any part in. the beef. District where the NMU was barred from money, so why get by on. How- operated In American foreign not let us have ever, if they Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan picketing one ship. Other than trade, even though two subsidiary threw the operators' petition out that the various injunction, pro­ it. Many times would allow us corporations were set up as a to draw agalhst for lack of jurisdiction. (See story ceedings failed to halt the four- we've hit a port means of operating It under the day protest. and needed our overtime, it on page Z;) Liberian fiag. Accordingly, the Picketing in the ITF demonstra­ Ex-Seatram Picketed money for ex­ would help a lot. Board approved the SIU's bid for penses, not onl}' If a man does tion got underway 12:01 AM on In New Orleans, the runaway ex- an election on the ship whioh was Monday, December 1, and con­ Seatrain New Orleans, formerly for ourselves but draw it though, subsequently won by the Union. our families, especially around it would be up to tinued through midnight yester­ manned by Seafarers, highlighted The Jones Act ruling by Judge the holidays. But what can we do, him to make sure he saves enough day on a 24-hour basis. By noon argument in Civil District Court Kaufnoan Involved a suit by a Monday an estimated 60 ships were before Judge Rene A. Viosca. the captain has the money locked to take care of his family and him­ Greek crew-member of the Pana­ up. self while on the beach. already tied up, as support from Ruling out an Immediate ban on' manian-flag Marcella. He was in­ waterfront workers for the anti- picketing, Judge Viosca told the jured while the ship was in Can­ runaway fight steadily mounted. operator's attorney, Walter Carroll, adian waters, and brought suit This figure jumped to 75 by (who also represents the SlU-con-' under the Jones Act although when Monday evening, and to 106 on tracted Mississippi Shipping), that LOG Is Cited For he sighed on In Baltimore he had "Tuesday, when the Liberian "De­ he would not issue a temporary to agree th'at Ife only had rights puty Commissioner of Maritime writ and' leave the unions with no for injury claims under Panaman­ Affairs" Issued a hasty press state­ means to carry on a peaceful pro­ Editorial Excellence ian' law. Consequently, by accept­ ment calling the demonstration test during the rest of the four- ing the case. Judge Kaufman in ineffective." At the time, 75 of day period. It has been normal WASfflNGTON—The SEAFARERS LOG won its 24th La­ effect, ruled that the seaman could the ships tied up were Liberian- practice In Louisiana before thia bor Press citation over the years when it was awarded a cer­ not sign his rights away. flag vessels. to "enjoin fi^st and ask questions tificate of merit for general editorial excellence in the an­ A key element In the Judge's 'Hot Ships' Snowed Under afterwards." nual International Labor ^ decision was the fact that a ma­ In the same way, runaway opera­ In addition to widespread tele­ Press of America competi­ volving the over-all content and jority of the stock in the company tors sought some comfort from vision coverage and front-paged tion. The "United Rubber appearance of the entries. was owned by residents of New scattered reports on ships that newspaper stories giving the back­ Worker," published by the union Judging the entries of over 300 York who are citizens of the United managed to escape from behind ground of the union protest, 100,- of the same name, took the award labor organs were faculty members States. He cited a 1953 Supreme picketlines. Spokesmen for the 000 leaflets were distributed on the in the class for International pub^ of the Journalism Department of Court case in which the court held big Niarchos tanker interests re­ waterfront by the time picketing lications, while the "Machinist" tfie University of California at Los as follows: leased an "obituary" to the press ended; Tfie leaflets issued by the organ of the International Associa­ Angeles and of the Institute of on the NMU-SIU demonstration In American ITF Committee pointed Labor Relations. In Issuing a cer­ "It is common knowledge that In Portland, Me., after one of the Ni­ out that 400 ships which had fled tion of Machinists, also won a recent years a practice has grown, tificate of merit to the SIU news­ archos supertankers got away. the US flag for tax-dodging Liber­ certificate of merit. General edi­ particularly among American ship­ torial excellence Is the major clas­ paper they remarked that, "This Heady with this success, they ian registry had torpedoed 16,000 sification in the ILPA contest in- newspaper shows obviously high seamen's jobs plus thousands of jobs ' coippetent technical awareness of for other-maritime workers,, while journalistic practices." endangering national security by Last year the LOG won one first cutting a huge slice from the US CS Refinery prize and three merit awards. As qierchant fleet. Another 100 US a result of its top award for having ships also switched to the other the best front page in the 1957 runaway havens whose vessels were Work Slows competition, the L(X} was ineligi­ picketed. ble to compete In the front page Although the protest was acti­ category this year. Other classifica­ vated in 20 ports, local committees Ik. Charles tions 'judged in the labor press were on 24-hour standby in five LAKE CHARLES—Shipping for competition are "best single edi­ other'ports completely bypassed by ^ this port hit a new low over the torial," "best original cartoon" and the. runaways. Some of the "hot" past period as many of the vessels "best feature article." ships, unable to move into berths,. due in for pay-off and sign-on were The LOG'S certificate of merit rode out the four-day protest at diverted to other ports, Leroy was the SIU newspaper's 24th- anchor or slowed up in transit to Clarke, port agent reports. This prize since the inauguration of the US ports, 4n order to arrive late. was-largely due to the. fact that annual awards in 1947 under the Cities . Service had slowed down auspices of the American Federa­ production at its refinery in order tion of La'bor. It was the paper's to make some inajoi i-epaks. 11th prize siitoe the AFL-CIO Ttll it to tht I/oj! - Calling Into port during the last merger, in 1955. two weeks were the Bents Fort, In 1955 and 1953 the LOG won Bradford Island, Cantigny and the top award for editorial excel­ Winter Hill (Cities Service) and (he lence; It has: placed first or been Atlas (Cargp^^ and . Tapdcship). AU vQited./or this award .five.of the last Sid* by side, EmIle JHqllins,:SlU. (left) and H. Bpvms, NMU, pickol were reported In good shape. seven years.. . runaway ship in Mobile, Ala. • ', A '. "rl' *'i -. -• t, •• rum Sta^ -^v SEAWAREK3 IPG DMMitier »;

Bloonifield Fleet Gets • ••"T. WC Sailors • ""i: Top Cleanliness Score HOUSTON—^The 88 Margarett Brown, last of Bloomfield • -f ~ Steamship Company's four-ship fleet to be inspected, received a perfect score in the annual US Public Health Inspection last 54 Running month. Two of the company's other ships, the Uucille Bloom- immersed in water never less than SAN FRANCISC(5—The annual field and the Neva West also 170 degrees, meat blocks are election of the Sailors Union of ecored 100 percent in :the test, cleaned daily with wire brushes, the Pacific got underway December while the fourth vessel, the Alice and cooks' knives and utensils arc 1 with 64 candidates in the run­ Brown, just missed the perfect kept clean and greaseless at all ning for 17 offices. Incumbents circle with a score of 99 percent. times. Daily. Practice "The sanitation certificate framed SIU SHIPS AT SEA Morris Welsberger and Harry In a letter to Robert Matthews, on the bulkhead of each of our Johnson are -unopposed for secre­ SIU Houston Port Agent, O. C. vessels is of the utmost importance Unusual Interest has been shown he did during the last two voyages tary-treasurer and assistant , secre­ Webster, Bloomfield vice-president, to all hands," he noted, "as it re­ by the crew on the Steel Seafarer on the Kyska. tary-treasurer respectively. praised the efforts of the crews in presents not only a clean ship but in the vessel's Several bakers, cooks and stew­ Union members will also be keeping their vessels up to par. a continuous effort of ship's per­ safety program, ard departments were in line for called upon to elect five of seven "Cleanliness," he said, "is not a sonnel to safeguard the health of Grady Fairclotb, votes of confidence and thanks candidates as building corpora­ case of being up for these annual all aboard." ship's, reporter from their shipmates. S. M. Wok- tion trustees and five of seven as inspections, but is a day to day Matthews commended the crew noted. It • is be­ ton, baker on the Feltote was delegates to next year's SIU of NA practice on all of these vessels." of the Margarett Brown and the lieved to hayC praised for his variety of pastries; Convention. Trustees are elected It requires daily inspection by other three Bloomfield vessels for come about as a thanks to Johnny Knowles for the to one year terms while delegates the chief stewards, Webster, said, the fine job they have been doing result of the ac­ fine French bread he has been put­ are chosen every other year for tc see that all of the dishes and in true SIU style. cident on the last ting out for the crew on the Al- the biennial conventions. trip in which one tableware are properly washed and mena; and to the steward depart­ There are also seven propositions crewmember fell ments on the Calmar, Maria H, Fairclofh and broke his' on the. ballot, among which are Steel Admiral, CS Norfolk, Del shipping rule changes incorporat­ Philly Showis leg, he said. But whatever the Monte, Ocean Star, Alcoa Polaris, cause, it is an excellent idea for ing the seniority preference sys­ Bienville, Jefferson City Victory, tem; a proposal to extend the ten- all to join in for it will pay off in and Lucille Bloomfield, all of the long run. day period ii> which crews can re­ PHote Big Upturn whom have been doing "a fine turn to their laid up ships to 21 It was a very clean payoff re­ job." cently on the Del Mar, Michael days; and one to decide whether In Shipping Dunn, ship's del­ men working on shoreside jobs have the right to be registered on L0rr^/^ PHILADELPHIA—Shipping for egate writes, be­ cause of the fine on the SUP shipping list. this port picked up a great deal Shipping Up Other candidates running unop­ over the last period, Steve Car- cooperation the delegates have posed are Joe Pohorence for San dullo, port agent reports. The SS Francisco dispatcher. Jack Dwyer, VfiAWihm Evelyn (Bull) recrewed as was been receiving In 'Frisco; from all of the first patrolman in San, Francisco, predkted and took a number of and William Armstrong', New York men off the registration list. The crew. This co­ remaining jobs were replacements operation has Future Dim agent. Voting will continue through mcLss continued, h e January, 1959. . : for vessels paying off or calling SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping into port for servicing. said, with the re­ sult that every­ Dunn for this port picked up somewhat The membership attending «the running qery Throw In For xkcmd"/ last meeting in this port was filled thing has been over the past period as a number in on the background of the Inter­ smoothly during the present trip. of vessels paying off or calling in­ A Meeting Job The last, ship's hieeting could be to the area for servicing took on national Tfansportworkers Federa­ replacements. Under the rules of the SIU, aie >VelCoTti£db\r tion beef against runaway flag, ves­ called the entertainment meeting any member can nominate him­ sels, Ciirdulio said. according to the ship's minutes. However, Marty Breithoff, port self for meeting chairman, read­ youjr Paying off during the past period Much of the time was spent In agent, reported that the spurt is ing clerk or any other post that were the Massmar, Marymar (Cai- expiaining the system of draws and expected to slow down next period. may be up for election before mar) and the Cities Service Chl- the vessel's movie program to new Calling here during the period the membership, including cm- wawa and Winter Hill.. The Mass- crewmembers, he noted. All hands were the Coeur D'Alene Victory mittees such as the tallying mar, Evelyn and the Steel Sea­ voted in favor of buiiding up the (Victory Carriers) and the Kyska committees, financial commit­ farer (Isthmian) signed on. fund to purchase new movies, and (Waterman), both paying off. In- tees and other groupit named by In transit were the Petro Chem the whole program as turned over transit were the Ocean Evelyn the membership. (Valentine); Robin Hood (Robin); to Brother J. Tucker. (Maritime Overseas); Portmar, Since SIU membership meet­ Young America (Waterman); Votes of thanks were In order- Pennmar (Calmar); Fairport (Wa­ ing officers are elected at the Emilia, Jean, Edith (Bull); Steel to ship's delegate John Brady for terman); Steel Surveyor and the start of eachoneeting, those who Admiral (Isthmian); Ocean Dinny the fine job he has been doing in Steel Flyer (Isthmian). The Coeur wish to run for those meeting (Maritime Overseas) and the Alcoa that capacity on the Orion Ciipper; D'Alene Victory and the Wild offices can do so.. Pennant (Alcoa). and to Brother Pamell for the job Ranger (Waterman) signed on. h.- a ^Memory^s Not Enough^

I ^ 'r. d V-*'* '* ; : ^ 1' fl it's largely true thot safety practiceg are a matter -of developing J •

good habits, so that it becomes semi-automatic after o while for the ,» safety-conscious Seafarer to dO his .fob tlie. ri^ht way. But oven the best- intentioned crewrheiViber can become forgetful and that's when it's '•/^f n>' - • always good to have d reminder handy. A^V'. Signs posted in appropriate places, such as the one illustrated hM' • here, will serve to jog the memory ifaif a crewmember" happens " to overlook v-r ' a necessary safety precaution. Properly used, such v can be a definite-asset in preventing shipboard mishaps. •• ite- ' -i C!"'

•I'Sp-.-h;'"' IIH< V" : • r-\ Stains"; , • '.H 1: vimCi Deoeoiker 5^ 19tt. SEAFARERS LOG TagaOngm >;..T Pier Collapses -Tired Bloo^ New York Booms, Sets YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH , Sections of a Brooklyn pier just quietly gave up and col­ lapsed into the Upper Bay, Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying dumping some 50 cases of Five-Vear Shipping High By Sidney Margolius watches, cameras and other optical goods into saltwater. NEW YORK—Shipping for the past period hit a five-year About 170 feet of Pier 6, Bush record high as 477 jobs were shipped from this port alone, Science Toys For Children Terminal, were involved. The Bill Hall, assistant secretary -treasurer reported. The last Everybody's science-conscious this Christmas, and toy manufactur­ pier started showing" cracks on highest total was in Decem­ V ers are likely to make more money from Sputnik than the Russians. Sunday afternoon, November 30, But the problem for parents who want to make scientific materials and an hour later, a section of ber, 1953, when 502 berths doing, "^he crew of the Ocean available to their youngsters, is to separate the worthwhile materials the pier gave'way. Fortunately, were shipped during the pre- Dinny refused to pay off their ves^ from the tremendous, amount of "scientific"' junk on the market. since it was Sunday, nobody was Ch'ristmas rush period. The crew- sel because they could not coma working on the dock at the time. ing of a,couple of ships that were to terms on an overtime beef. First of all. avoid the pseudo-scientific playthings that try to capita­ in lay-up helped boost the totals. lize on th% present interest in science. You can spend $4 for a me­ It was believed that some of However the beef was settled the pilings under the dock gave Next period should also be very quickly in favor of the crew by chanical moon rocket that nierely moves around the floor and blinks good'with men piling off in order the boarding patrolman and the lights. Or you can get an intt-oductbry astronomy kit for $3 which will way, which would be an unusual accident but the only logical to bq home for Christmas. ship paid off deari. really teach a child sky observation. On the whole. Hall said, the There were a total of 48 vessels Compare prices. They vary widely. Some mail-order houses and low- reason offered for the pier's collapse. vessels paid off clean because of calling into this port over the past price retailers sell the popular Spitz all-electric planetarium for as the fine job their delegates are period. Twenty-seven paid off, little as $14 as compared to the national list price of ^0. eight signed on and 13 were in- Investigate off-beat sources for scientific materials as well as the transit. standard toy retailers. Such specialized sources for science materials The following vessels paid off: -include the large natural-history and science museums, school science Seagarden (Peninsular ' Nav.); suppliers and specialty suppliers like the radio and electronics parts AMONG OUR AFFILIATES Frances, Beatrice. Elizabeth (Bull); retailers and jobbers who sell to Bienville, Gateway City, Fairland,. adult hobbyists and servicemen at Beauregard, Raphael Semmes reasonable prices. Some represen­ Marine Cooks and Stewards patrolman reported that most of member' Jaroslav Pavel is in the the tankers are not docking in (Pan-Atlantic); Robin Sherwood, tative sources of these types 'are Robin Hood (Robin); Maria H listed below, and will send cata­ restaurant business again but it Richmond any more. isn't likely to provide the same in­ (Herald); Longview Victory, North­ logs or'price lists. western Victory (Victory CJiuriers); Buy something good in a low­ trigue that his World War II cafe in Czechoslovakia did. During the From the Great Lakes District Steel Admiral, Steel Traveler er-cost . material, rather than (Isthmian); Atlantic (Banner Line); something cheap in an expensive occupation, he piayed host to Ger­ comes news that Seafarers at the man officers, getting away several Detroit Public Health gervice hos­ Ideal X (Marine Tankers); Sea- line. For example, the Science times a night to meet with other pital took to cover when a British trains New York, Texas, Savan­ Materials Center in New York, members of the Czech underground jet plane recently crashed oniy nah, Louisiana (Seatrain); Ocean which employs high school teach­ in his basement. His present res­ 1,000 feet from the hospital One Dinny (Ocean Clippers); Madaket ers to test materials, reports that taurant, at .124 Ellis St. in San of the men remarked, "Give me a (Waterman); Seastar (Traders) and many lower - price telescopes Francisco has many of the old good safe SIU ship any time over the Alcoa Pennant (Alcoa.) proved unsatisfactory in tests, and trimmings, except that the base­ the dangers of a hosMtal." Signing on were the Steel Ad­ would discourage a young astron­ ment is simply a basement. miral and Steel Traveler (Isth­ omer. Generally, says this center, mian); Atlantic (Banner); Long- field glasses or binoculars of mod­ •$, i, Seafarers who worked aboard view Victory, Northwestern Vic­ erate power will be a greater val­ Eighteen additional homes for the SlU-contracted excursion boat, tory (Victory Carriers); Ines (Bull); ue and can be used later as an oldtimers are under construction the Canadiana, are expected to re­ Robin Hood (Robin) and the Gate­ accessory to a telescope. at the Marine Cooks recreation site ceive their wages due them now way City (Pan-Atlantic). Safety features of scientific play­ ill Santa Rosa. Vacant homes are that the ship has been sold, reports The in-transit vessels included things and materials need careful now available for all pensioners the Great Lakes District. A ship the Winter Hill, Cantigriy (Cities examination. Electric toys, should who so desire them. The area is accident in July had drained the Service); the Arizna (Waterman); bear the label of the Underwriters' Laboratories both on the cord and also used as a training site for company of all its assets. The ship Seatrain Georgia, New Jersey (Sea- on the toy itself. Whenever possible, electrical toys should be con­ union members. was bought for $28,500 at an auc­ train), Texmar (Calmar) and the structed to operate on 6 to 12 volts and should include a transformer. tion last month. Val Chem (Heron). AM eheffiical sets are potentially dangerous. If a cljild wants a toy i. t. chemical set, he should be taught what each substance is, if it is flam­ San Francisco Congressman John '•J mable, how it reacts under vary.!ng temperatures, and its reaction when Shelley addressed SIU Pacific Dis­ '.i' combined with other- substances." Under no circumstances should he trict crewmembers at a recent US Companies Miss Boat be allowed to mix substances just to see what will happen, the Safety meeting aboard the President Wil­ Council warns. son. He urged vigilance against In buying radio, electrical and construction {tits, make sure the kit Communists who seek to regain On Seaway Passepger Run control of the union movement and is not-too complicated for the child. Simple crystal radio kits are avail- Although the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway is ex­ able-fpr $3 or less in ihany'stores, but are hot recommended if you labor racketeers who have gained live much further than ten miles from a radio station. A widely-avail- control of a segment of organized pected to revive the passenger trade on the Great Lakes, only itble electrical kit recomihended by the Science Ma^rials Center, is labor. one operator so far, a Dutch company, is scheduled to put a the "Electrical -Workshop," $6, which includes an electrical, motor, 4 t t passenger liner in the service. batteries, svvitches, operating panels, telegi;aph keys, other equipment An eleventh hour agreement Hopes for reviving the once visitors toured its overlooks since for making hundreds of electrical experiments. The more complete with Olson Steamship averted a 1956. With the Seaway open, it "12-in-l electronic lab" kit (available at $15 from Allied Radio, listed lucrative Great Lakes tourist will be possible to extend tourist walkout by the Sailors Union of the trade were sparked this year when below), includes equipment for making a relay which can serve as a Pacific as negotiating committees service as far East as Quebec City, two ships, the North and South and possible to the Saguenay burglar alarm; a photo-electronic relay to turn on lights or other de­ settled the last three of 21 issues American, made two trips to the vices when you speak into a niike; a code oscillator; electronic flasher, involved in contract talks. The River, some 300 miles east of and other circuits. new American locks. Up to this Montreal. agreement came as the SUP was time the two vgssels were limited SCIENCE MATERIALS CENTER, 59 Fourth Ave., New York 3, sup­ about to Impose a "no contract, no to the Lakes region only. Both 5 plies selected scientifle equipment, books and records for young peo­ work" policy on the Olson ships, Ships were heavily booked d«pite ple and schools. Among notable items here are the "Adventure with t it the fact that they could not navi­ Stars" kit, for ages ll up, $2.95. It includes a book on stars, star flnder, Finding that the hall no longer gate any further eastward than Excursion Boat log, sky map and scope for locating constellations. Another reason­ serves any useful purpose, the SUP Massena, NY. However the open­ able kit is "Plant Sciehce," $1, which includes materials needed for has decided to close its Richmond ing of the Seaway will permit them growing plants year-round on a window sill or under a lamp, and a office by the first of next year. to go almost to the Gulf of St. booklet of plant experiments. The decision came after the tanker Lawrence. Both these vessels are Sold To Cuba WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT, INC., 3000 East The excursion ship. Liberty manned by the SIU Great Lakes Belle, under contract with the Ridge Road, Rochester 9, NY, is a mail-order supplier of geological and District. • • I biological-science materials for 'schools. They'll sell you a live amoebe Turned Down OT? Marine Allied Workers Division, if you care to study one, but more practically, have a larger selection Don't Boot On SS While a number of American has been sold by its owners. Wil­ M of rocks and minerals, fossil and miniature-dinosaur collections, eg^- companies have been talking of son Lines, to Cuba. Next month science kits, insect-collecting equipment, botanical supplies and other Headquarters wishes to re­ diverting some of their passenger she will head south, with a new '/ail materials. ' ; i mind Seafarers that meu who ships from former runs to pick up name (Treasure Island) and flag, ALLIED RADIO, 100 N. Western Ave., Chicago 80, is the: country's are choosy about woridng cer- the Lakes' tourist (fade, there has and go into operation as a passen­ taiu overtime cahnot expect an been no further progress reported ger-cargo ship. The Cuban owners s| largest mail-order electronics supplier. equal number of OT hours with AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL BISTORT, Central Park W. In that area. Apparently none of paid $250,()00 for the Liberty I the rest of their department. In them plan on building new ships Belle. .'n'i I at 79th St:, New York, has an excellent selection of rock kits, insect some crews men have been ' ,1 kits, weather kits; available by mail. Also publishes "Junioj^ Natural for the service. Since 1949, the ship went on turning down unpleasant' OT Foreign-flag operators, on the countless pleasure cruises to Rye History Magazine," at $1.75 for 14 months. Jobs and then demanding to kv CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BOOKS SHOP. Chicago other hand, have been trying to Beach, Rockaway Beach and Atlan­ come up with equal overtime short-cut Immigration restrictions tic Highlands. She was originally 5, has' the famous "Peoble Pup" kit of rocks and minerals, and book­ when the easier jobs come along. lets, all for $1.25 postpaid. on the handling of passengers on built as a Naval-patrol craft, but This practice is unfair to Sea­ the Lakes by foreign lines. The MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, Jackson Park, Chicago farers who take OT jobs as they was acquired by the Wilson Line 37. Offers rock, gens, jihell and coral collections. Also has individual Dutch vessel, Oranje Line's Princes after the war and converted into come. Irene, is expected to drop her over­ rock end mineral specimens for ten cents up. Will send price list. The general objective is to a four-deck excursion craft. For BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, Humboldt Park, Buffalo ll. equalize OT as much as possible seas passengers at Montreal, and if a year she Operated from Boston New York, has insect, shell, rock and other kits, nature and sclencf but if a man refuses disagree- Immigration permits, to pick up to Providence and Nantucket. booklets. atde jobs there is ne require­ tourists to travel the Seaway. An Mass., across Massachusetts Bay. Others that have science materials and books of special regional ment that when an ef^er Job extension of this service would be Renaming ceremonies took plac* Interest, include Southwest Museum, Htghtand Park, Los Angeles, 32; comes along be can make-up tbt^ ft Lakes-to-Eurep* run. December 2 at the Wilson Marin* Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver 3; The Newark Museum, ovsrtlma ha turned down before. New York State ftutboilttee have Repair Terminftl in Wilmtagten, Newark 1, NJ. •• •• Del. rEM"'''' X Pare'Elf^i ..,~!r'.'- SEAFARERS LOG Pceeaiibci':-!/ ItSt'- Red Drive Hurts US Ships Mobile Host To 200 -. I'if A potential headache for^ US merchant shipping was highlighted by the news this week that a major American company has signed a contract to buy benzene from the Soviet Union at a price well below the current market price. The annoimcement called attention to At Holiday thinner a i^ed trade drive which, by-*^ MOBILE—Alabama's Governor-elect John Patterson last - A-' r. - undercutting US producers, in the United States because their abroad, and of course, would mean week limited the completion of the new Alabama State Oockf could deprive US merchant metal products are not bringing retaining at least the amount of r ' •hips of export cargoes. them as much money as they used export cargo that US shipping now by barring the authority from borrowing more money foy. construction purposes. His-*— For example, in the past year to get. This too is harmful to US manages to handle. the Russians have been selling trade and US shipping. Any such moves would be a radl- action followed a report that Margarett Brown (Bloomfield)/ aluminum in Europe at prices un­ The Russian tactics have caused caL departure from past practice. the docks, for the first time which is in drydock for about three- der those of American producers. much concern in Washington and But for practical purposes, this Is in 20 years of operation, went into weeks' work will- take on a full They have also been successful in discussions are. going forward on exactly what the United States is the red, Cal Tanner,; port agent crew on completion of repairs. selling oil and oil field equipment how to handle the problem. Sincq doing with its agricultural surplus. said. The authority was reported Calling inip the area during the to Latin American countries which the Russians are selling at a loss, This cargo, is in effect, US-subsid­ as losing almost a quarter of a past twd^: weeks were the Wacosta, - are short on American dollars, and it has been suggested that some ized exports,; since the prices it is million -dollars in operations. last Wild ':Rahger. ,peSotp, Claiborne, are entering other trade Areas m kind of US trading agency be set sold at are below the going rate! year.^ - MonarCkbi;i(be.Sea« (Waterman); the Middle East and Far East that up under which the United States The farm surplus export has Thie director of the docks has Steel Apprentice, Steel Traveler, were formerly pretty well domin­ could meet the Russian prices been a bulwark of US-flag ship­ been under stiff attack by the Steel Age (lithmian); Akna Clip­ ated by the United States and its wherever and whenever necessary, ping, particularly in the tramp local press. Tanner reported, and per, Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa Corsair allies in Western Europe. even if it means selling at a loss trades, where it has provided al­ it is believed that 4he Governor (Alcoa) and the Margarett Brown too. ; most all of the cargoes available acted as a result of this and other (Bloomfield). The "basic problem involved Is Such a procedure would involve simple. Since the Soviet Union does to both US tramps and US inde­ publicity that politics was inter­ the US Government in subsidizing pendent tanker operators switch­ fering with the efficient operation not have to worry about profit and ing to grain, v ' loss in its foreign trading opera­ the sale of United States products of the docks. tions, it can and does deliberately As these new docks and slips will Now British undercut American prices which Changini^ Of The Guard be playing a vital role in the have to return a profit to the seller. development of the state's ship­ For example, if the Soviet Union ping industry, it is expected that Plan Atomic sells oil field equipment to a Latin some action will he taken soon to American country, it means that remedy the situation. American ships will be deprived Almost 200 Seafarers, their, of that particular cargo which for­ wives and families, enjoyed the LONDON — With the United merly came from the United annual Thanksgiving! Day dinner States building the SS Savannah , ';;a- • States. held in this port last week. A full and the Russians having an atom- y-tX' As it is, American-flag shipping course holiday dinner was served powered icebreaker under con­ is carrying a shrinking percentage by Cliff Taggart and his helpers at struction, shipowners in the United of US foreign trade. Should the the SIU Snack Bar and was en- Kingdom are ci.lling for a similar over-all total of such trade be cut Joyed by all. construction program in their by the Russian's tactics it would Shipping for the port for the coimtry. reduce actual cargoes for US ship­ last couple of weeks was definitely The call for an atom ship was ping accordingly. on the slow side Most of the made by the president of the In addition to competing directly vessels hitting the area were United Kingdom Chamber of Ship- with American exports, the Soviet either on continuous articles or plng,~an organization representing Union has been accused of dump­ were In transit and as a result British shipowners. Indications ing such metals as tin on the mar­ there were only a few calls for are that the British government ket, hurting many Latin American replacements. The outlook for will go along, with Prime Minister countries. These countries then the coming period looks just about Harold Macmillan predicting that have to cut back on their-buying the same with only a handful of the choice of a suitable reactor for ships expected in for payoff or in such a vessel will be made by next transit. From all reports, the spring. Black Gang List Short Your Gear... In Norfolk for ship • • • for shore "ih'.''' NORFOLK—Shipping for this Nelson L Norwoocl (left) outgoing chief steward on the* Penn Ex­ period, while .slack, still held up plorer briefs his replacement, L. J. Beai,.on the ship's linen supply. Whafever. you iiBecl, in work or (dress enough to ease the registration list for the engine department As of geor, your SIU Sea Ohesf hos if. Qef fop the start of the new period, there qualify gear af subsfantidi savings by bdy* are only 12 class A men registered in the black gang, James Bullock, Slump In Baltimore ing df \our Union-owned and Union- port agent said. There were a large operafed Sea Chesf sfore. i - number of vessels calling into the area over the past two weeks. Bul­ Persists; Ships Idle Sport Coats lock noted, but most of them were BALTIMORE—It has been recommended that the men on Slacks in-transits and only took on a few Dross Shoos replacements. the beach in this port be allowed to leave their shipping cards •'"i ] ii - Work Shoes The membership in this port with the dispatcher"when they go down to collect imemploy- wishes to extend their sincere sym­ Socks - .i' pathies to the family ahtl friends ment compensation,Earl'" Dungarees • V-'l Sheppard, port agent reports. ner, Alcoa Pennant (Alcoa); Rob­ frisko Jeens of Seafarer Angelo Gormohti, who in Hood (Robin) and the Edith died here recently. Brother Cor- Since that usually is a long, (Bull). CPO Shirts monti had just paid off the Seafair slow moving line, some of the Dress Shirts when he died in the launch going There have been reports that men have reported losing out on some of the men In this port have Sport Shirts »;• - ashore. jobs because they could not get surrendered their seaman's papers Belts Paying off in this port during back on time to throw in for them. Khakis > thd past period were the Pandora to the Coast Guard foC minqr rea­ These have been two of the slow­ sons and are having difficulfy iln Ties '; yy (Epiphany), and the Seafair (Colo­ est shipping periods in this port nial). The Seafair and the Chicka­ getting them back. The only time SweaiShirts' saw (Waterman) were the only for some time. At the moment the Coast Guard may take a sea­ T-Shirts there are 12 vessels in idle status man's. papers is after he has been vessels signing oh. in the area, and although they can Shorts^ T In transit were the Natalie (In­ found guilty of charges which Briefs he made available ^n short notice, warrant his losing, his papeyS' • tercontinental); Ocean Dinny, the possibilities of their getting Swim trunks.: ' ' (Ocean Clipper); Chickasaw (Water­ In some of these cases it has Sweaters man); Cantigny, CS Norfolk (Cities cargo commitments are considered been reported men have had their Service); St.eel Admiral (Isthmian), slim right now. papers lifted for reasons of health, Sou'wesiers and the Seafair (Colonial). There were a total of 22 vessels or to keep a man on the beach to Raingear calling into port during the past appear as a witness or for some Caps period. Nine paid off, two signed other minor reason. Since each Writing Materials Union Has on and 11 were in transit. man is responsible for his papers, Toiletrtes Cable Address The ships paying off were the he is advised not to turn them Elettric Shavers Seafarers •"verseas who want Seaman Texmar (Calmar); Hilton, over to the Coast Guard for these Radios to get in touch with headquar­ Jean, Dorothy,, Emilia (Bull); San- reasons, but should hold on to Teleyinpn , ters in a hurry can do so by tore, Feltore (Marvan) and the them unless he has-been brought Royal Oak (Cities Service). Sign­ up and proven guilty of a charge.' Jewelry . cabling the Union at its cable ing on were the Santore and the Cameras • /"yi ---ess. SEAFARERS NEW Feltore. luggage tX- YORK. Use of this addresa will assure The in-transit ships were the I eedy transmission on all mes­ Bradford Island (Cities Service); sages and faster --srvice for the Kenmar, Bethcbaster (twice). Mass- men Inv-'ved. , mar (Calmar); Steel Admiral, Steel Seafarer (Isthmian); • AlcoA ? 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?i|a'(!::yj;x-R,a:y Pdl a s o keepsPy.i-^IV^'/^Gut on'deck-Joe ReyeS^:- - t .X V . watchful eye on HagenMiflry: bp^un,-. wre::tles : witfe;!i j •I 1. -• •-s"•"S Y"- SEAFARERS LOG Bos^ Group Seeking Coffe«tliM Plays No Pavoritss Stitfef NY Labor Law Organized labor, which campaigned so vigorously to de­ feat "right to work" laws in five of six states during the past election, seems to have another battle shaping up in NeW York State. A proposal made-^ by the New York Chamber of be doomed -to almost certain de­ Commerce last week, embod­ feat. But its proposal embodies ies many of the principles of the some of the restrictive features of anti-iahor "right to work" laws, both "right to work" laws and of without being called such by name. the national Taft-Hartley law Declaring as its aim the protec­ which do not now exist on the tion of employees' rights to join state's statute books. or refrain from joining a union, The. Chamber's proposals call the new law is the first obvious for' the outlawing of the closed effort to reduce the power of la­ shop, still allowed in businesses bor in New York, which now op­ not engaged in interstate com­ erates under the "Little Wagner merce, and for employers to file Act" of 1937. unfair labor practices against un­ Aware of the strength of the ions. Under the present state act, labor movement in New York only the unions can file such When It's coffeelime on the Penn Explorer e turns to on the {ava for a few minutes of relaxo- State, the business group shied charges. Hon. On Hie left. Rex Conway, AB, himself to a hot cup, while 2nd assistant J. "Bladcie** Martin away from proposing an outright Other provisions would guaran­ shares lu< with "Jocko** the monkey. :o" h Q coffee drinker from 'way back when. ' He*s from "right to work" law which would tee "free speech" to employers in union matters, put restraint on Brazil, teo, along with the coffee beans. secondary boycotts, prohibit "fea- therbedding," bar jurisdictional strikes and empower State Labor Plan New Relations Board te compel unions Subsidy Bidders In Stiff Fight and employers to bargain in good faith. WASHINGTON—With Isthmian Steamship Company having won a favorable recoip-' Sea Law The Chamber's proposal does mendation on its proposed subsidy, the battleground has shifted to subsidy plans of Matsoh not go to the point of outlawing the union shop, a key feature of Orient Lines, a joint Mitsbn-Isthmian venture, and those of the Waterman Steamship Com-^' "right to work" law but allows in­ paiiy- Meeting stead for unions and employers to Matsoh-Orient has applied son Orient would be in a position of the trade routes it has bid since A second international confer­ decide upon the maintenance of a or a subsidy on Trade Route to have ships on call almost any­ present policy seems to favor the. ence on the law of the sea may be union shop, on the ifame basis as 12, involving a run from the East where on the route by acting extension of Government assist­ held next year in an attempt to in the Taft-Hartley Act. Coast to the Far East. It would through a common traffic agent, ance to virtually all companies in resolve the knotty question of A spokesman for the Chamber, operate with six C-3 vessels as a giving them an advantage over the off-shore liner trade. whether the three-mile limit will in trying to justify the proposal, starter, with the company having the competition. stay in force or be replaced by a said it would help combat union the option to purchase three C-3s Matson Orient is asking for new measure of territorial waters. "racketeering" and would give from Matson and three from Isth­ sailings on the route, on which US The last conference broke up in "the general public, employes and mian, although there Is* a possi­ Lines is already subsidized for 36 Aprii of this year over failure to employers forms of protection bility that the tonnage will be voyages annually. resolve the dispute with the US which the present law fails to pro­ obtained from other sources. Mat- US Lines and Lykes Brothers m- holding out for the old three-mile vide." He said that workers desir­ son Lines ships are manned by have been concentrating their fire Totals Dropt rule. ing to rid themsrives of en­ SIU Pacific District crews and on the Waterman subsidy applica­ Many Asian and Latin-American trenched undesirable unions would Isthmian by the Atlantic and Gulf tion as well. The principal objec­ nations have been coming out for be enabled to take initiate pro­ District. tion raised by US Lines is that the In Savannah a 12-mile limit on territorial ceedings against them. Objectiims to the proposal have 30 percent objective of the 1936 waters with some South Ameri­ SAVANNAH ^ It has been a . Tlie Chamber itself is one of the been led by United States Lines Merchant Marine Act is "unrealis­ very good two 'weeks on the ship- ^ can countries claiming territorial most influential state-wide organi­ which presently operates on Trade tic" on the North Atlantic run. The waters as far out as 200 miles. zations of large and small busi­ Route 12, and also by American '36 Act called for carriage of 50 ping front, acting agent Nevin El­ These claims have been fought as nesses and can be expected to do President Lines. The principal ob- percent of US foreign commerce lis reports As was predicted, tha;, , depriving some countries of access some powerful lobbying for its ection made by US Lines is that on any given run as the dbjective Edith (Buill came out of lay-up : to valuable fishing grounds and proposals. of the subsidy program. others of free transit of ships States Marine, Isthmian and Mat- after a short stay and took on a through waters formerly regarded 'Service Adequate* full crew.'- However the outlook as being outside territorial do­ US Lines' representatives re­ for the next period is not toe ' mains. peated that the present service good as only In-transit vessels am- For instance, in the recent beef provided by them and by American scheduled to come into port so over the offshore China coast Banner Lines Is "substantial under far. islands held by the Chinee Na-r present day conditions" and "more The crmving of the Edith helped tionalists. Red China claimed a than adeqOate to meet the needs cut down, a great deal on. the.regr 12-mile limit and has been charg­ of this trade." istratlon list in all three depart- > ing the US Navy with violating her The argument was based MI the ments for the .port. There were' national sovereignty. Similarly, fact that there are a large dumber Iceland and England got into a less than nine Class A men reg-' ' While taking it easy on his $150 monthly disability-pension of foreign flag operators in this Istered in all departments at tiie ' dispute over fisheries when the trade and as a result, any deter­ start of V the period. However as ; Iceland government tried to ex­ check, retired Seafarer Gustav Carlson looks back warmly on mination as to adequacy on a for- there are no payoffs scheduled clude British fishing boats from all malistic SO percent basis would be waters Within 12 miles of Iceland's 50 years of sailing.. When he started with the National Sail­ for the coming two- weeks, there . coast. ors and Fireman's Union of Great Britain in 1907, he never dreamt unrealiirtic." are enough men on the beach here A compromise at the last confer­ that some day he would retire in comfort such as the SIU Welfare Lykes Brothers, which is con­ to handle any open berths. ence that would have g^ven a coun­ Plan provides today. cerned with Waterman's applica­ There were no vessels paying . tion for subsidy on two services- off during the period, and only try the right to a six-mile limit plus One of the first ports Carlson hit in the United States was Galves­ fishing rights for another six Gulf to Europe and Gulf to Far one, the Edith, signed on. In . ton. He liked the Gulf so much that he shipped out of the area through­ East—argued against Waterman transit were the Council Grove, rr. miles also fell through. out his seafaring career. He even tried fishing in its waters for-a liv­ It was expected that no renewal on the grounds of irregularity and Bents Fort (Cities Service); Sea- of the conference would take place ing for a short while. In 1912, Carlson played a inadequacy of past performance on train Georgia (twice); Seatrain Sa-. . until 1960, but a number of coun­ hand in the formation of the Lowboat and Dredge- these trade routes. However, the vannah, Seatrain New Jersey, Sea- tries have been extending their boats Union, but as it turned out, "the president Lykes witness conceded that train Louisiana (Seatrain) and the sea iimits on their own In the past was an ex-bartender, and all Lis organizers his old Waterman's services are nefcessary Robin Sherwood (Robin). few months, making It urgent that cronies. It didn't last very long," Carlson concludes. for adequate American-flag service the problem be settled. Joining the old International Seamens Union in and that an expansion of US-flag 191S, Carlson found that the only American ships operations op these trade routes is hitting Galveston in thosd days were ah occasicmal required: Make Checks Bull or Morgan and Mallory vessel, or a coal Lyfceo Asks More schoonw. The fruit boats, better known as "banana The Lykes argument Is that such To 'SiU-A&G' Carlson boats," which kept the port hopping throughout the expanded services should be 'pro­ Seafarers mailing in checks year, were primarily under the Norwegian flag. vided by giving it additional sailing or money orders to the Union Several years later, Carlson joined another union, the Eastern and authorizatioiui on these routes, to cover dues payments are Gulf Sailors Association. After the "disastrous" strike of 1921, good while en the East Coast runs US urged to be sure to make all (rf jobs were hard to come by when a man carried a union book in his Lines has elalmed that no addi­ them payable te the SIU-A&G pocket tional services are needed ^m Distriof. The twenties and early thirties were "lean, years" tor Carlson, and any steemship company. Some Seafarie^ have sent in for countless other seamen. He kept busy working on a Govenunent In addition to Waterman, Bloom- checks and money orders in the dredge and on Lykes Brothers ships after which he transferred to a field Steamship Company, another names M mdividual Headquar­ West Coast ship. I ive cruises to South America followed, and then SlU-contracted operator, has a bid ters iHHeiala This makes tm a came the 1936 strike, tying up the vessel. in for eiqianded subsidy service proUem in boekkeeping wbleb With the 1936 strike victory. Carisen became a member of the Sati- on the Gulf to Europe trade route. can W avMded if checks are ors Union of the Pacific. In lt41 Carlson transferred to the BIU It appears at present that^Water- m nude out to the VaUm directly. and sailed with it until bis retirements He now makes tda home In maq has a good fiance of winnbig Texas CHy. ^ ' v . ' «Ff>r«ral fiar>idr|east mumu SEAFARERS LOG Par* Eleroi Thaf's Him!" Latest Injury Totals Running Below '57 Lost-time-accidents on SlU-contracted .ships showed a small increase in the three months ending June 30, 1958, but were well below the last quarter of 1957, the Seafarers Welfare Plan Safety Depart- ment reports. There were 121 booms (14) and carrying stores and lost-time accidents in the linen (11). October to December quarter of Forty-two accidents were the te- 1957. The low figure was hit in sult of contact with movable ob- ' . V'i'? January through March, 1958, jects while 40 took place as the when a total of 111 lost-time acci­ results of slips and falls on walk-' dents was recorded. ing surfaces. The accident statistics now being collected by the Safety Depart­ ment from virtually all SlU-con- tracted ships will be able to indi­ SIU College cate a trend throughout the SlU- contracted fleet after two more quarters have been reported on. Award Goes Then there will be a basis for comparison from year to year. However, statistics collected To Alternate by several major SIU companies Expressing her thanks to the on their own have shown a reduc­ SIU for the opportunity of attend­ tion in accident rates in 1957 from ing college via the SIU Scholar­ 1956 and thus far this year from ship Plan, Miss Mik^el Brady has the 1957 figures. written to the SIU membership The total of all accidents for promising to "try very hard to be the quarter was 391, 270 being mi­ v/orthy of your wonderful award." nor injuries which did not involve Miss Brady, who was selected as any loss of work time. The break­ the first alternate at last June's • down for all accidents showed that scholarship award meeting, was 82 occurred while off duty or on placed on the scholarship list when the Way to and from work, more one of the five w'nners, Delia Alice than at any working operation. Ac­ Prestwood, withdrew. She is now cidents occurring during work attending the University of Ala­ time involved' such items as han­ bama. dling rigging (28), while on watch A resident of Northport, Ala­ (19), docking, undocking and moor­ bama, Miss Brady is the daughter ing (17), topping or securing of Seafarer John G. Brady, electri­ cian, who is currently shipp'ng on board the Alcoa Pointer. She graduated from Tuscaloosa County Gale Batters High School where she compiled an outstanding straight "A" aver­ age throughout her high school New Bedford c.ireer. The 18-year-old scholarship The fijrst stage of the coordinated fight by American and winner plans to special ze in public world unions has come to a close with the ending of the four relations. days of demonstrations that were scheduled by the Interna­ Fisit Boats In her letter received at SIU tional Transportworkers Federation. These demonstrations NEW BEDFORD—Seventy-mile- headquarters last week, addressed Reject APL have served notice on the runaways that from now on they per-hour winds battered the New to the membership of the SIU, she declared: cannot count on total immunity by virtue of wrapping them­ England coast last \yeek driving -j; five fishing boats aground in the "Since my father, John G. Brady, ''K selves in the flag of a non-maritime nation. The American now'aboard the SS Alcoa Pointer, companies and individuals who own a major portion of the mud of a small island in New Bed­ Transfer Of ford harbor. The vessels, operated has been a member of the SIU for runaway fleet now must realize that Amercan maritime un­ by members of the New Bedford many years, 1 am well acquainted ions are united and determined as never before on this issue. Fishermen's Association, an, affil­ with your organization, and be­ - •s, ^ cause of his affiPation, 1 was privi­ Just The Beginning iate of the SIU, had only two days Luxury Ship earlier returned in a fleet of 20, leged to apply for one, of your I The SIU, along with all other US maritime unions, con­ after being buffeted , by the same annual scholarship awards. As. a WASHINGTON—The Maritime siders the four-day protest but the first step in a long range storm while at sea. recipient of the scholarship, I am Administration has refused per- campaign to establish decent conditions on the rimaway The mooring, lines of the two attending the University of Ala­ inission "for now" for the Ameri­ ships. Already the National Labor Relations Board and at scallopers and three draggers had bama withl no financial strain on 'I can President Lines to sell its pas­ least two Federal court decisions have indicated that for pur­ been snapped by the gale, blowing my family. senger ship SS President Hoover the craft to various parts of the "Please cons'der this letter a poses of labor law, the American-owned runaways should island. Efforts to refloat them after personal 'thank-you' to each of you. to forpign interests.. The owners properly be treated as American-flag ships. The Union in­ the tide had subsided failed. "1 shall try very hard to be had hoped to sell the 23-year-oId tends to pursue the runaways vigorously in this area as well A watchman aboard one of the worthy of your wonderful award." vessel' abroad upon the comple­ as in the legislative arena. . draggers was the only person The SIU Scholarship Plan pro­ tion of a new superliner to replace The demonstrations have also accomplished another pur­ aboard the ships during the mis­ vides five $6,060 scholarships each It In 1962. pose. They have unmasked the false-front of virtue and re­ hap. Suffering a minor leg injury, year good for four years of college Administrator Clarence Morse spectability behind which major US oil companies and other he nevertheless found the stormy study. Both Seafarers and children cited as one of the factors in the trip "a nice easy ride." of Seafarers are eligible for the large corporations operated ships whose wages, hours and awards, and in recent years work­ decision the fact that the ship was woiking condtions are far below the legal minimum exist­ purchased from the Government- ing Seafarers have carried off most owned Panama Lines and implied ing in every other US industry shoreside as well as being Prove Eligibility of the prizes. that it 'was desirable that it stay one-fourth of those on legitimate US ships. They have shibwn For Hospital $ Scholarship winners are selected In American hands. It is also known up the hollow argument that these billion-dollar outflts "can't on the basis of their high school that the Government would like -afford" jto pay taxes to this United States Government on Seafarers being admitted to a records plus performance on the to build up'its reserve of passenger their earnings. Public -Health hospital are standard College Entrance Exami­ ships, which ij at a low -level in urged to carry with them their nation tests. The SIU Welfare Plan recent years. ' 'Good To The Poor* Union book plus proof of eli­ at 11 Broadway is now accepting m gibility /for SIU ben e fi t s; applications for next year's awards, The construction of the new The spokesman for one of these outfits tipped his mitt on namely, a record that they have APL super-liner and a replacement since the college entrance tests the whole operation in a court appearance last week at least 90 days seatime during must be taken by the end of March for the United States Line's Amer­ when he posed as the dispenser of food and lodging to ini- the previous year and at least ica was made possible through spe­ in order to get under the wire for poverished seamen. He proclaimed his client's respectability one day during the previous six the award. cial Cpngressional legislation this months. Failure to have the year.' Congress agreed to pay the and boasted how when one of the runaway tankers pulls into a Mediterranean port the seamen there swam out to the ship proper credentials will cause a • entire construction costs and to fix in their eagerness to get a job. By so doing, he revealed how delay in payments to the Sea­ the price at which the ships would farer. be sold to the companies. the runaways prey on unemployment and economic distress If the Seafarer is admitted to American'President Lines noted in underdeveloped nations to get the crews they want at bar­ a hospital' which is not a PHS that there had been no objections gain basement wages. institution, he should contact raised , when the Grace Line was In the long run, the Anierican runaway - fl.ag operator, the Union immediately. The considering selling its old passen-; whether he operates'50 supertankers or a rusty old Liberty, Union will arrange with the ger ships, Santa Rosa and Santa is one and the same. He can be defined simply as the ship­ USPHS for a transfer to a Pub­ Paula, to foreign hands. As it lic Health hospital in his vicin­ turned out, these ships were owner who'deliberately evades his obligations both to his country and to the working people of the United States. That ity. The PHS will not pick up turne^i oyer; to the Government as the hospital tab for private jpart ! s.yi^'..it on new vessels. This is the . issue. which these ;^monstrations have spotlighted, hospital care, unless it is noti­ Send 'em to the ' po anaount of-squiEn«ng.-0r protestation can alter the fact fied in advance. ' < / CompMlll an^hlp repfacdments". at itir«we «perMorS taw «his€®iig*fen a massive scale. LOG Ttm Tirehw SEAPAItgRS LOG DcMMbw S, Travel-Log Sill Anniversary^ Planter Rates SENFUEIS IIIRTIOC Recalls History Teps With Him To the Editor: To the Editor: It was indeed a pleasure to I've been running to Argen­ note in a recent LOG that tha tina for the past couple of years The approach of the holiday season again calls for a re­ SIU had passed its 20th birth­ on Mississippi ships, so I didn't minder that the brothers in the hospitals always welcome day. Prior to 1938 when I'Joined get up to headquarters in New visits and mail from their shipmates, especially at this time the SIU, we went through a York for some time. But now of year when many are far from their familieg and homes. long siege of dues-grabbers: that I'm on the Alcoa Planter Among the Seafarers drydocked recently, according to tha latest ISU, ILA, AFL 240 and AFL go 1 had a chance to visit and reports, are Charlie Gedra and Ferlton J. Mean at the Public Health Reorganization Committee. say hello to all the hoys. Service hospital in Norfolk, both coming along fine dnder treatment Even in those I^an years when Brothers, that's some fine se^- for nervous conditions. Gedra was a messman on the Natalie; Mears things were tough on all NMU up we got at headquarters. It ' < ' was last on the Wang Pioneer vessels, we were making rapid was .a . real sailing as deck maintenance. progress and making our signed pleasure to Savannah reports it has only one see eVjgrything man on the USPHS roster right running so now. Seafarer M. S. Forreiter off Smooth'. the National Liberty? He came in * It reminds after an accident ashore and is Letters To me of the making satisfactory progress. . Planter, which The new additions to the Balti­ is one smooth more drydock- list are Telesforo ship also. The steward de­ Moors Gallagher Vazquez, ex-Atlas, and John M. The Editor Creel Gallagher, who last shipped on the All letters to the editor for partment is Seamar. Vazquez is recuperating from an eye operation and is appar­ publication in the SEAFAR­ tops 100 percent and^ with the, ently doing alright under treatment. Ditto for Gallagher, who checked ERS LOG must be signed officers we have aboard, she .in with a stomach condition. by. the writer. Names toill treats everybody fine. A skin condition has hospitalized Sal Rodriguez off the Steel Sea­ be withheld upon request. While I'm at it, I'd like to farer at the Public Health hospital in Staten Island. Others at the Neur give thanks to Captain Youngji York PHS facility are Adolph Swenson, ex-Hastings, due to ulcers; chief engineer Leo Grimm, Ist contracts the model for all sea­ assistant Stanley, 2nd assistant John Jackson, ex-Rebecca, with a nervous condition; Julian Levinsid, men. ex-Robin Gray, due to a bursitis condition in his right arm, and Cecil Bond, 3rd assistant Cale, and "Rudy" Leader, who's off the SS Atlantic for the first time since her The forward strides made by 4th assistant Hall. They're maiden drip last June for treatment of hemorrhoids. All of these broth­ the SIU and the constant bene­ men. ers are reported to be doing okay so. far. fits provided for the? member­ Thanks also to "Big Tiny" the ship make me* very proud to Deck engineer John Hamilfon bosiin, and our chief steward, The foUowing Is the latest avaUable list of brothers in the hospitals: have played a small role and who also keep things running USPHS HOSPITAL R. Richardson George Wendel (top, left) pays no n)ind to the to have been in on the ground­ MANHATTAN BEACH. NY " Thomas Stevens George Williams photographer as George Zel- Just right., Smooth sailing, Lewis R. Akins Donald Hewsen Thomas Teears Cleophas Wright work that produced the SIU of brothers. Mauuei Aulunana Antonio Infante Robert Vance Clifford Wuertz ensky plays the shiek in Eladio Aris Claude B. Jessup James Ward Charles Wynn today under the capable leader­ James P. "Sloppy" Creel - Fortunate Bacomo Woodrow Johnson Arab's clothing. Above, also ship of SIU officials. Joseph J. Bass Ludwig Kristiansen SAILORS SNUG HARBOR Melvin W. Bass Thomas R. Lehay STATEN ISLAND. NY on the Pacific Carrier, Harry, Incidentally, I'd , appreciate . ^ t. Matthew Bruno Kenneth Lewis Victor B. Cooper Thomas Issksen 2ncl cook and baker, and John hearing from any old shipmates Leo V. Carreon Warren J. Mclntyre USPHS HOSPITAL Japan Unionists James F. Ciarke' Leo Mannaugh BALTIMORE. MD. Ausiitz (right) display a well- who have time to write me. The Joseph D. Cox J. S. O'Byrne Hennlng BJork Louis J. Evans cleaned camel bone. Maybe address Is 365 Gushing Highway, Complete Tour Juan Denopra C. Osinski Ben Bone John M. Gallagher Scituate, Mass. John J. DrlscoU George G. Phifer Wra. Brightwell Gorman Glaze the boys missed dinner. To the Editor: Friedof O. Fondila Winston E. Renny K. M. Bymaster John E. Jacobs. Jr. Smooth sailing to all my Otis L. Gibbs G. E. Shumaker ^ohn Castro Mleczlslaw Knlon On the eve-of our departure, Bart E. Guranick Aimer S. Viekers John S. Clapp R. L. UtUeton friends and shipmates in the Taib Hassan Pon P. Wing Clarence Murray Wm. F. Smart Jr. next 20 years. for home in Japan, we, all teio Clarence Hawkins Royce Yarborough Lawrence Proper Paul Strickland Frank Hernandez Den Ronan of us in the sixth Japanese labor Augustin G. Oporto Telesfaro Vasques union productivity study team, USPHS HOSPITAL Blkiano ReboUedo George Warrengton STATEN ISLAND. NY George Schmidt Wilmer.C. White t are happy to report to you the Clemente Acuin JuUan Lelinski Jose Simmons John ZohU very .successful completion of Nicholas Anoustis Roy Lee McCannon USPHS HOSPITAL James Antoniadis Ignatiij. McCormick BOSTON. MASS. Westport Black OUF six-week study tour through­ Felix Aponte Frank Mastromarino .^os Buzzelle A. C. Harrington out the United States, which John Ausiitz Juan Otero laiwrence Campbell Raymond L". Perry Gang Applauded Frank S. Bosmente Anthony Pisani was made possible by the Inter­ Peter Bush Jose Rodriguez USPHS HOSPITAL To the Editor: national Cooperation Adminis­ Sheldon T. BuUer Salvador Rodriguez GALVESTON. TEXAS Frutuoso Camacho William Saltarez A. R. Castro Jr. Fernando Tlaga I wish to thank one and all tration and the US Department Apron Castillo Isaac Sieger V. E. Wilkerson Edward Wright of the engine room personnel of Labor. Lawrence Crane Victor D. Solano N. A. Longtime WiUiam C. FeU Adolph Swenson M£ETYO£jyeiC*.OSHl^ for the upstanding Job that the We feel indebted to you be­ S. B. Ferrer Frank Threp VA HOSPITAL men of this department have yond expression for the success, Ramon Galarza Eduardo Tore BOSTON. MASS. MATBSAr-mSKJkom George B. Griswold Stefan Trzcinsld Thomas W.' KiUlon giveiL to this vessel, the SS of our study tour. May we as-, Arthur J. Heroux Ramon Varela VA HOSPITAL Wes'tport, on the past voyage. sure you that our visit to your Alexander Janes Modesto Veiez BUTLER. PA. William A. Jordan Felix Vlte James F. Markel Seldom if ever have I had the organization on September 26. William D. Kenny James H. West Eugene Langstrand Joseph Wohlets ' USPHS HOSPITAL luck to uil with a crew that was particularly an inspiring CecU Leader . SAN FRANCISCO. CAUF. has been on the Job at all times and enlightening experience fori Paul D. Llotta -Jtonry J. Schreiner USPHS HOSPITAL Joseph H. Berger HOyt L. Tanner as ready and ahl^ as this one for all of us. It will undoubtedly hoi NORFOLK, VA. J. V. Blssonet Wm. E. Thompson any work that comes up. I've of immeasurable value to us in Francis J. Boner Raleigh Evans. Jr. Michael J. Coffey Claude A. Virgin Mars I. GaUop Ferlton J. Meara George B. Dunn William H. Walter also never seen men more our future endeavors. Charles A. Gedra Myron E. Folts Henry Waller cheerful at doing their work. We will remember your warm USPHS HOSPITAL A. J. Schevlng Joaquin Gomes It would he my wish to keep hospitality in receiving us for SAVANNAH, GA. USPHS HOSPITAL M. S. Forrester SEATTLE. WASH. the entire crew here aa long as a long time to .come, as well a* USPHS HOSPITAL Juan Mojlca THePiaHTSOtilV. they could stay, but I know that the friendliness and goodwill NEW ORLEANS, LA. James Barnes Clifford Iney USPHS HOSPITAL business and other responsibili­ shown to us by all the American- Robert Barrett Henry Janicke FT. WORTH, TEXAS ties must take some of you off. people we had the pleasure of John Bigwood A. KUo'dopoulaa J. R. Alsobrook H. Ledwell Jr. Claude Blanks Wooldrldge King Lawrence Anderson Woodrow Meyers AMP ALWAYS. I can only express" my regret at meeting officially or otherwisO' Alphonse Bosarge Edward Knapp B. F. Diebler John C. Palmer this. Your leaving will be the throughout our stay in the" Tim Brown Leo Lang VA HOSPITAL mico^ HERBAL' Jacob Buckelew Henry Lang HOUSTON. TEXAS ship's loss. United States. Fess Crawford William MarjenhoS R. J. Arsenaidt >t3UieOMMPtAC& Once more thank you all. I Aden C. Ezell Jr. Edward Moore Our thanks to all-members of Heiyy Foy Alonzo Morris VA HOSPITAL owNBR/^opemto hope it will he my luck to have your staff who -were so kind and Gerald Garrlty William Nelson RUTLAND. MASS. you as shipmates again aomo Hebert Grant Dominic NeweU Charles Bartlett Daniel Fltzpatrlck helpful during our. visit. ^; I Wayne Harris Lloyd Olsen • VA DOMICIARY tipie in the future. Masaki Ishiyama : ,o > James Harrison WUUam Padgett THOMASVILLE. OA. President, Mojl Branch:,, Hayden Henry Harold Plunkett Elmer O. Brewer D. M. WlUffuns George Hiers Winford PoweU VA HOSPITAL Chief engineer All Japan Seamen's llnisa James Hudson James Price CORAL GABLES, FLA. Romon Irlzarry Arthur Prouln Abncr Ralford

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Ill: ^imicers' Field Day' By Stafpnr Bwmmf Mant Valley Forge Sparks Freedom Once Again Freedom is now a reality for seven Yugoslav escapees res­ cued by the SlU-manned freighter Valley Forge six weeks ago in-the Adriatic Sea. The Yugoslavs won refuge at a UN camp in Brindisi, Italy, after^ four days of diplomatic that the Yugoslavs could go ashore, wrangling over their fate. and wouldn't be sent back. "There Details sent by the' ship's re­ was a collective sigh of relief porter to supplement an earlier aboSrd," added the crew report, account in the IX>G (Nov. 7, 1958) "as we headed out to sea again reveal how the rescue came about. for our own homes Stateside." Outbound from Rijecka, Yugo­ slavia, the 'Valley Forge was just 12 hours froni port on October 25 when the mate spotted a small boat Radio Officer floundering about with six men and a woman aboard. "They were waving their arms Buried At Sea and a piece of cloth to attract our Crewmembers on the SS attention .. . The mate notified the Marore performed the rites captain, who brought the ship for the traditional burial at about to get a better look . . . The sea following the death of radio 14-foot boat was ready to fall apart officer Harold D. fireeland on and the people had neither water October 18. nor food to last them another day. Breeland who died aboard the "The captain called below for ship after a brief someone who spoke Italian hut this illness, was taken didn't help since none of the re­ ashore the next fugees spoke Italian, Fortunately day at the Pan­ the first assistant spoke Slavic and ama Canal and was able to understand what the then flown to people In the boat wanted." Baltimore for Many a tea veteran wiU tmile with recognition at this old story about motes and Although there were some dis­ cremation. His •ngineers taking it upon themselves to do the crew's work, thereby fattening the senters among the officers, accord­ remains came overtime bundle for the unlicensed gang. This illustration comes out of the Suwannee ing "to the crew's report, the deci­ back aboard the fleet in the Caribbean. sion was finally made to take the Marore before it escapeda aboard and make them sailed again from comfortable. It was on arrival in Baltimore on November 9. WANO PIONEER (InUr-OcMll), N*v. eepted. Need new washing machine. Some disputed OT. Ein logs. Patrol­ Brindisi that the diplomatic hassle He was hurled from his old ship 3—Chairman, W. Harris; Sacratary, D. Vote af thanks to steward for Ana man to inspect ship. OT sheets to be Sachar. Some disputed OT. New menus and to baker for fine French brought up to date. To clear up OT began, due to the uncertainty at 0930 on November 11, with delegate elected. bread; also to steward dept. for Ana of two US soldiers who came aboard among the Italian authorities about Seafarer Edward A. Boyd, SIU food and service. in Beii-ut and got off at Bremcrhavcn. what to do with the visitors. Since ship's delegate and longtime friend ARIZPA (Walarman), Oct. SS—Chair­ How to divide 23 days pay. Steam man, C. Parker; Secretary, P. Van SRATRAIN NEW YORK (Saatraln), heaters to be repaired. Galley stove they were on an^ American ship of the deceased, acting as pall­ Wygardan. Crew donated money for Nev. IS—Chslrman, A. McKcnzia; Sec­ to be repaired—is accident hazard. they were said to be an American bearer. Capt. J. R. Respess con­ wreath to mate's mother's funeral. retary, O. Conules. Everything run­ Captain called SOS—crew stand by. All beefs to be referred to delegates. ning smoothly. Some disputed OT. One No apparent danger. Conservation of "responsibility," although at the ducted the- service, Breeland was All safety repairs will he made at man short. New delegate elected. Re­ food supply urged. Delegates to turn a member of the Radio Officers quest brighter light bulbs over bunks. in repair lists. Rooms to be kept same time there was no legal way Alp yard. Some disputed OT. Drink­ clean. Turn all keys over to qew crew. Union. ing water tanks to be cleaned. Have to get them into the United States. DEL SUD (Mitt.), Nev. f—Chairman, Crew warned to be sober at payoff. rafts and lifeboats to be placed on Ask if ship warranted bonus—fired Eventually, word came down board. Need new blankets. Need H. James; Secretary, V. O'Rrlant. Clean ship, all okay. Ship's fund upon in Beirut. Lebanon. Vote of more milk—^juice to be served when thanks to steward dept. and special no milk is available. S2(M.37. Movie. $355; Athletic, $24.80. t- Few hours disputed OT. Delayed sail­ thanks to chief cfiok for Ane Job. ing time disputed. Motion to use $40 FLORIDA STATE (Pence), Nev. «— from ship's fund to purchase new ALICE BROWN (BloomAeld), Oct. Chairman, J. Lssifs; •ecretsry, D. books and magazines f?r library. To S4—Ctieirman.- W. Wandeli;'Sscretery, Ross. Deck dept. foc'sles to be paint­ contact agent' or patrolman to try to A. Hill. One man missed ship 'in ed. Showers and bathrooms to be get voluntary relief men on coast trip Broownsville. Some repairs not com­ to Houston, Suggestion to get differ­ pleted. Ship's fund $15.55. 'Reports ent type movies. Coffee to be left in accepted. Discussion re: closing port­ pantry for men coming off watch. holes during wash down. Other de­ partments not to use steward dept. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory shower. Delegate given vote of thanks. 'Carriers), Nov. 9—Chairman, none; Endeavor to obtain ship's foreign port Secretary, J. Katsos. Ship's fund $7.84. schedule earlier. Request larger toaster, larger sheets, new chairs for messroom. Medical GATEWAY CITY (Pan - Atlantic), care not up to par; new ladder for Nov. 10—Chairman, P. Adklns; Secre­ outside of stack. Slop chest prices and tary, L. Sheehan. New delegate elect­ Inventory unsatisfactory. New mat­ ed. Ship's fund $3:i3. One man short. tresses are faulty. Motion to raffle Scotch cooler. NOed new washing machine. Discussion on STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Nov. conduct of chief electrician reporting 1—Chslrman, V. Genco; Secretary, A. argument wth AB to chief eng. with­ Brodle. Delegate to see engineer ab'out out first taking matter up With ship's washing machine. Delegate spoke on delegate. Matter to be referred to behavior in foreign ports and also to patrolman at payoff. see that natives are kept out of house. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), Nev. f— -ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), Nov. 10 Chalrmam R. Hommel; Secretary, C. —Chairman, A. Abrsms; Secretary, W. Gait. Crewmembers to be more care­ Cameron. Ship's fund $45.50. To con­ painted. New repair list to be made ful about smoking in bed. Return cups cur with motion by crew of Atlantis up. Ship's fund $17.01. Beef about to gantry: Few hours disputed OT. re—retirement of seamen with 15 mate doing sailor's work: to be Need two larger coffee pots for pan­ years seatime. straightened out by captain. One man try. sent to hospital and one man missed DEL NORTE (Mississippi), Nev. $=- ship. Beef between made and other CITY OP ALMA (Waterman), Oct. Chairman, N. Punken; Secretary, H. officers with steward utility. New 24—Chairman, W. Paderseni Secre­ delegate elected. Notify patrolman Crane. No beefs. Suggest giving tary, J. Cantln. New delegate elected. Christmas fund at New Orleans hall. of payoff Mohday, Nov. 10. Ship's fund $12. Observe quiet when $50 given by Capt. Kinney for baseball crewmembers are asleep. All beefs to equipment. Ball fund $83.80 in the RafugGGs posG aboard VallGy Forga bafcre going oshora to safety ALCOA PLANTER (Alcoa), Sept. 7— be taken to delegates. Washing ma­ red. Ship's fund $148.4$. Request in Italy. ToH man on right (stonding) escaped once before, but Chairman, W. Themss; Secretary, Z. chine to be cleaned after using. Re­ using dryer in crew's laundry between Chliw. Most repairs made. No beefs. quest patrolman bo aboard when sign­ 10 AH and 7 PM and washing machine accordingrding to his itery, was traded bock for five head of cattle. Payoff In NO. 80 percent new crew ing on. between 8 AM and 7 PM. New dele­ this voyage. Ship's fund $21. Pur­ gate and reporter elected. Talk held chased SlY picnic stools and small PLOMAR (Calmer), Nev. $—Chslr­ on showing ship's movies . . . Rota­ sets of containers. New delegate msn, H. Galphin; $earetary, T. Csr- tion from each department lounge. elected. Distribute LOG to three de­ mlchael. Everything running smoothly. LOG-A-RHrrHM: partments. Lack of work and weather Some disputed OT, to be referred to Discussion on relief Jobs for coast. clothes on board in. slop chest. Sug­ patrolman. Suggestion to Include foul Talk on ship's fund. gest ' complete supply of slop chest weather gear furnished by company. Items for future yovages. Discussion on revisions in retirement MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), Nev. Nev. 2—Chslrmsn, W. Thomas; Sec- and air-conditioning of ships. Repair 14—Chairman, C. Ruth; Sacratary, J. Seafarer ^8 Blues .rolary, T. Applewhite. Delegate in­ list to be turned in. Foc'sles and bath­ Bsllday. Everything running smooth)^ jured foot at Army base—^was re­ rooms need painting. Need dodger for with exception of insufficient sizes By J. L. Gomes placed. New delegate elected. Ship's flying bridge. Messhall and pantry to of goods in slop chest. Ship's fund fund $57. Arrival pool winner donated be kept cleaner. One large coffee pot $31.88. No beefs. Some disputed OT.~ $25. to fund. MoUon to install smaU to be left out at night. Members to keep Koreans from run­ 1 find myself with pains from loneliness, "fans in bathrooms. Eng. dept. foc'sles ning around in passagewaya during duing at the moonlight on the tea; to be sougeed. C $ NORPOLK (Citlot Sorvlco), Nov. ship's stay in Korean ports—also, keep $—Chairman, W. Tatum, Jr., Secre­ pantry locked. My heart grows heavy with thoughts of you. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Nev. 1 tary, J. Atchlsan. Rcporta accepted. Where are you? TeU me what to do. —CtMlrmsn, W. Shoemborn; $acy., E. Repair Uat to be prepared. Motion to MAE (lull), June 1—Chairman, W. 'Ibaffa. Few hours disputed OT. Com- have company furnish transportation Merrit Jr.; Secretary, A. Ferrer. I watch the shadows gracefully fall. pbdnt about mail delivery in Sues for men pulled off by doctor in LC, Everything running smaothly. $7 in .CanaL Nite lunch to be improved. either to Galveston or back to port ship's fund. Abolish gangway watches On the hilltops from afar; Messroom to be sprayed. One man of engagement. on all Bull Line bulk carriers. New Calling your name to me. missed Aip—not to be fined. One man delegate elected. Vote of thanks to hospitalized in Bangcok—Joined ship STEEL EXECUTIVE (IsthmUn), Oct. steward dept. for Job well done- Wishing on every shooting star. in Singapore. Vote of thanks to dele­ 4—Chairman, G. Plnklea; Sefratary, chief cook in particular.' gate for fine Job. Crew quarters need A. Bredla. All rapaira made: medical When the sun moves toward her cradle. painting and fumigating. chest checked. Discussioa ef ship's DEL CAMPO (Mhslsstppl), Chair­ And tradewinds carry a day's heat away; fund: union education and duties of man, R. Crool; Sacratary, C. Ruaux, ALMENA (Penn), Nov. II—Chair­ ddagate. Request 80c. donations for All repairs ef Tast veyage taken care Trees grow shadows on the grass below. man, M. toe; Seirstary, M. Morris. ship's fans. Wa^Ung macfclna to be of. Sh'si'e fund $38.19. No heeft New As night falls, peaceful and slow. • • -rt : JIapair list made out. Performing en rwalrad. Delegate discussed draws in delegate and treasurer elected. Chief ftghting with knife. One man foreign pmrts. engineer to take care of warm drink­ Vi'' • '• MaMp. failed to turn to untU aaiUng ing water. Slop sink to bo kept dean. In songs from memory, I praise thee; - . ' f WnO-4e b* roferrod ^ natrohnan. MARIA.H (HeraM), Nev. ll^lwlP- ;iUl books and magailnea to be spBt : In my dreams J relive our days of htmdness^-'f-^^^- ^.oMalnod :ch,- cook. In, man, E. Lateyai Secretary, R; Ranta.- aatong each dept.: 'k** down coma. The shadow of lonelinese ^ | ;;; ^PhC« rowteeB SEAFARERS LOG 9b IMt Coot 8|9ot On A Hot Run LOG-A-RHYTHM: me and my family the assist­ Says 'Hot' Palnto ance we needed after the acci­ Heat Up Foc'slo dent. Sailor's Love T« the Editor: I am recuperating at home in Just a quick hello and a few North Carolina now and I hope By E. R. WUd lines on foc'sles. I read In the it won't be very long until I "San Pedro News-Pilot" how will be able to get back on a Loving a seaman is not altOays gay, this designer Raymond Loewy good old SIU ship again and en- 'Cause of the price you often must has some ideas about designing Joy the best working conditions V ryi,' pay. V ships and is doing a Govern­ anywhere. Believe me, I'm It's most to have, but not to hold; ment study. proud to be a member of the It's being young and feeling old. .V. ' • I don't know what his Ideas finest Union anywhere. It's sending a letter are, but he has to know about Again I say many thanks to :u} With the stamp upside doiJh, cool colors, etc. I think they the SIU and the crew of the v;. To a faraway love. should first study paints. I SS Atlantic for their assistance In a faraway town. when I needed it. - Everett A. Herd And when he comes in. ft ft ft You both laugh together; ; Not conscious of others, , ••-<:. Letters To Rents Rooms The time or the weather. Near NY Hall •iri -. It's having him whisper To the Editor: ^ }V- His love just for you; I would like to advise the SIU It's whispering back The Editor brothers who ship out of New "I love you, too." All letters to the" editor for York and need a room that I am publication in the SEAFAR­ operating a rooming house in Then comes a kiss, ERS LOG must be signed Brooklyn at 353 6th Avenue, be­ A promise of love. by the writer. Names will tween 3rd ^d 4th Street. " Knowing you're watched by G6d be withheld upon request. up above. The place is not fai' from the headquarters hall and is ideal Reluctantly, painfully, letting him know for a fact that paint is for anybody who needs a room. go. the main cause of hot foc'sles. The telephone there is ST 8- And crying inside 1 think some chemist could cre­ 5519. 'Cause of wanting him so. ate a new formula for paint to Alfredo RIos contrast the heat on a ship. ft ft ft Days go on by. Then foc'sles 'would be more No mail for a spell. habitable. Ponsion Dobato You wait for a word. For Instance, on a tropical or Just a hint that he's weli; Still ContinuoS Persian Gulf trip the ship can To the Editor:^ When the letter does come get as hot as an inferno. Thanks You light up with joy. to the good old SIU, at least We, the members of the And act like a child with a shiny we've got cots on our ships to Alcoa Corsair, wish to expi;ess new toy. our thought and feelings cpn- make things a bit more com­ cerning the SIU retirem.ent For though you know well. fortable. Rudy Melgosa plan. That he's far, far away. We feel that 12 years' seatlime You love him more t, t, t, on SlU-contracted vessels' Is And more each day. Cheers 20 Years sufficient time to qualify for Loving a sailor ^ Making the most of a cool spot owoy from the Persian Golf sun, retirement, regardless of age It's bitterness and tears,- ' the gang on the Steel Artisan takes it slow and easy. At top, Of SIU Progress or health conditions. What good Loneliness, sadness and unfound (I to r), Lorsen, AB; Dennis, OS, and Baugher, carpenter, take To the Editor: is a retirement plan if you have years. their leisure with a smoke. Above, Shoeffer, OS, and Burke, The crew of the SS Del Alba to' have ond foot in the grave wiper, watch as Ammon, AB, fishes in style—Southern-style—with wants to offer its congratuI.i- before you can retire? We feel No. Loving d" sailor is really no that a man should be able to lir;: fun. a line tied to his toe. "Smokey" Byron, who sent in the pictures, tions to all SIU officials and fellow Union members on our enjoy some other form of life But it's well worth the price. didn't soy whether Ammon wound up with anything, even a after 12 years' of sea life. When the battle is won. 20th anniversary for a job well sprained tee. done Ln the' past 20 years. If some such system were May God give us the strength made possible, then members and foresight to make life more of our brotherhood might be able to enjoy shorcside living i • bountiful for all Seafarers sail­ ing our nation's merchant fleet after a life at sea. as He has done in the past. ,We would appreciate any L. W. Peed available information on this WILMINGTON. Calif 809 Marine Ave. SAN FRANCISCO 350 Fremont St. Ship's delegate nialter and also would like to SlU, A&G District Reed Humphries. Agent Terminal 4-2874 SUtter 1-1995 know the feelings of our BALTIMORE 1216 G. Baltimore St. HEADQUARTERS... 678 4tli Ave.. Bklyn SEATTLE 2508 —1st Ave. brother members on this sub­ Earl Sheppard. Agent EAstern 7-4900 SECRETARY-TREASURER MAin 3-0088 BOSTON 276 SUte St, • Paul Hall WILMINGTON. 805 Marine Ave. LOG's^His L^k ject. James Sheehan. Agent Richmond 2-0140 ASST SECRETARY-TREASURERS TErminal 4-8538 Donald S. Brooks HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. J Algina. Deck W. HaU, Joint To Seagoing Days Robert Matthews. Agent C. Simmons. Eng. R. Matthews. Joint MFOW Ship's reporter « Capital 3-4089: 3-4080 E Mooney. Std. J. Volplim. Joint To the Editor: • • * LAKE! CHARLES. La. 1419 Ryan St. HONOLULU....56 North Nimltz Highway I would like to receive the PHone 86077 To the Editor: Leroy Oarke. Agent HEmlock 6-3744 SUP LOG and would appreciate your MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. HONOLULU....81 Sonth Nimltz Highway BALTIMORE 1216 East Baltimore St. This is in reference to Louis Naira. Agent FRanklin 7-3564 PHone 502-777 EAstern 7-3383 putting my name on the mailing Brother Thomas A. Brown's MOBILE I South Lawrence St. PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. NEW ORLEANS 823 BienvlUe St. list. I am a retired SIU man Cal Tanner. Agent HEmiock 2-1764 CApital 3-4336 MAgnoUa 0404 pension proposition (LOG, Aug. RICHMOND. Calif....810 Macdonald Ave. and have been receiving my MORGAN CITY 012 Front St. BEacon 2-09^ NEW YORK 130 Greenwich St. 29). - Tom Gould, Agent Phone 2136 SAN FRANCISCO 650 Harrison St. COrtland 7-7094 benefit check every week. I'd like to know what he ex­ NEW ORLEANS. 823 Bienville St. Douglas 2-8363 PORTLAND ....522 NW Everett St. Believe me, I appreciate that. Lindsey Williams. Agent Tulane 8626 SEATTLE 2508 1st Ave. CApitol 3-72976 pects the members who have NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn Main 0290 S.d^N FRANCISCO 240 Second St. I'd like to express my thanks to 12 years' seatime and are 55 to Hyacinth 9-6600 WILMINGTON 808 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 DOuglas 2-4592 the ^lU Welfare Plan and the NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. SAN PEDRO 296 West 7th St. 70 years old to do. Are we sup­ :ik MAdison 2-9834 NEW YORK vrS 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn Union's Welfare Department for PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St, HYacinth 96165 TErminal 3-4485 posed to go another.20 years S Cardullo. Agent Market 7-1635 SEATTLE 2333 Western Ave. arranging everything. because he is probably only 18 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St MC&S MAin 2-6326 Please remember to send the Marty Breithoff. Agen* Douglas 2-5475 years of age? SANTURCE, PR.. 1313 Fernandez Juncos HONOLULU....81 South Nimitz Highway LOG to me so I can keep in Sal Colls. Agent Phone 2-5996 PHone 5-1714 Great Lakes District After going to sea 37 years SAVANN^" . ... 2 Abercorn St. NEW YORK 678 4th Ave.. Brooklyn ALPENA .'...1218 N Second Ave. touch with my brothers who are and another 20 years for a pen­ ?• Agent Adams 3-1728 HYacinth 9-6600 ELmwood 4-3616 still at sea. T . . 2®"® Ist Ave. PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. BUFFALO, NY 180 Main St. sion, we old ones don't stand a Jeff Gillette. Agent ^ Main 3-4334 CApitol 7-3222 ^ Phone; Cleveland 7391 James N. Snell chance of cashing in on any TAMPA 1809-lBh N. FrankUc St. NEW ORLEANS 823 BienvlUe St. CLEVELAND 1410 W. 29 St. Tom Banning. Agent Phone 2-1323 RAmond 7428 MAin 16147 t, ft benefits. According to insur­ RIVER ROUGE ..10225 W. Jefferson Ave. ance statistics and the Social River Rouge 18, Mich, Offers Thanks .r,™. Vlnewood 34741 Security people, we should be DULUrH , 621 W. Superior St. i _ Phone: Rand, Ipb 2-4110 For Atlantic Aid pushing up daisies. y SEAFARERS LOG. FRANKFORT. lUch PO Box 287 To the Editor: Brother Brown should re­ <..••• '' ELgin 7-2441 5 675 Fourth Ave., MILWAUKEE 633 S. Second Ave. Recently I WRS in an automo­ member that we have worked I Brooklyn 32, NY BRoadway 2-3039 bile accident in Brooklyn and many years fbr this and would Canadian District was hospitalized for several like to. cash in on it for a cou­ fy- ple of years. j I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG— HALIFAX. N.S . . .128Vi HoUis St. weeks. I was 2nd electrician Phone 36911 aboard the SS Atlantic and was T. T. Parker FV) -' '• i please put my name on your mailing list, MONTREAL 634 St. James St. West Victor 26161 In the car wreck a few hours (Ed. note: In the Sept.' 26 i (Print Information) FORT WILLIAM ....408 Simpson St. before she was to leave for Bel­ Ontario Phone: 3-3221 LOG, Brother Brown amended PORT COLBORNE...... 103 Durham St. gium. his proposal for a 2Q-year sea- [NAME • 9 f . O , Ontario Phone; 5591 TORONTO. Ontario...... 272 King St. E. I have always knou:u that the time requirement in favor' of EMpire 46719 SIU was the best Union and I another plan for $100 monthly • STREET ADLRESS VICTORIA. BC 617M Cormorant St. EMpire 4531 now I want to thank the SIU benefits for men with 16 years' VANCOUVER. BC ...... 298 Main St. good standing and 12 years' sed- Pacific 3468 officials at Union headquahers i CITY .. . ZONE...... STATE...... SYDNEY. NS .'V.304 Charlotte St. for helping me while I was in time, with $150 for those mth m:;-- • TO AVOID DUPLICATION; If you are an oM tubtcrlbar and have a ehanga Phone: 6346 the hospital. I especially want 20 years' good standing and 18 a of addrats, plaata giva your forlnaf^addraW balowt BAG0TVGLL8. QueDae...... 20 Elgin St. years' seatime. The present THOROLD. Ontario 82 St. Phone:Oavldt. 848 ' to thank the Welfare Services SIU disability-pension provides a ADDRESS CAnal T Department at the Brdoklyn QUEBEC 44 Sault^u-Ma $150 monthly after 12 years' Queheii ' ' ' Phone; 3'1869 hall for thi2 hnahy times It favg CITY ...... i...... i^NE.. WATi...... „ SAINT J0w...... tT7 Prinea William St. • NB • . OX % itu SEAFARERS LOG nee Wittetu Shorthanded? Viailor T« Headquarters 1j If a crewmember quits while * 1'.- - a ship Is In port, delegates , i Y- .. t-ff. are asked to ^contact tiie hail i:< a immediately for a replace i ^ •f ment. Fast action on their part - wUl keep all- Jobs aboard ship fiiied at all times and elimi­ nate the chance of the ship Vincent Meehan sailing shorthanded. Contact your brother Bill at the San Francisco hall immediately. Urgent. WASHINGTON —Monthly fig­ Rated Men ^ rr'* ures released by the Maritime Phillip E. Giordano Administration revieaied a slight It is important that you get in rise hi shipping 'conditions here. Can Get Out touch with Mrs. Odessa Giordano The grand total of 84 Inactive at once. Her address is Route 2, -^4-1 American freighters and .^nnkers is In Houston Box 30A, Peizer, SC. nine less than reported ^ksi month. HOUSTON—Shipping for this iv .y;: Of these, 64 were laid up for lack area slacked off somewhat during Bob Hudglns of cargo while 20 were undergoing the past period. Bob Matthews, Please contact Michael Hernan- repairs or conversion. port agent reported, but it re­ dez, c/o SIU, 675 Fourth Ave., mained good for any rated or class Activity among ships with over B'kiyn 32, NY. J : ,1,000 gross tons capacity also im- A men who wanted to ship out. Next period should show an im­ X ^ i. , proved a bit. Here, 944 ships were George R. J. Hallahan ..reported in operation, ah increase provement, Matthews said, as a number of ships are expected to Essential that you contact Mr. of seven over October. come into port. The Dei Mundo, Pearl in New York as soon as po,s- The Government gained one ship which has been in lay-up, will take sible. in various transactions, bringing its on a full crew on December 1. 4 4 4 total to 2,137. This resulted There were only two vessels, toe through the sale of one hospital Sam N. Bowser Valley Forge (Peninsular) and the Chief olectficion Sverro federtsen ond daughter Helen stopped in Mrs. Irene Pruitt requests that ship and 12 Libertys plus the Michael (Carras) paying off during transfer of one vessel to the Air SlU headquarters last wegk. Pederssen was last aboard the you get in touch with her at 1521 the past period. The Michael was 27th Ave., Seattle 22, Wash. Force, while gaining 11 transports the only ship signing on. In transit Steel Voyager. from the Navy and four via trades.. were tm Mae (Bull); Fort Hoskins, 4 4 4- The total merchant fleet remained Chiwawa, Council Grave, Bents Woodrow Drake at 3,141, including the lay-up fleet. Fort (Cities Service); Seatrain You are urged to contact Smith A 0.1 percent drop in foreign Texas (Seatrain); Dei Santos (Mis­ Ganly, Inc., 1100 Olive Way, commerce from May, 1957 to May, sissippi); The CabUSs (Texas City); SIU BABY MRIVALS Seattle, Wash. 1958 was also reported by the MA. Eagle Transporter (United Ma­ 4 4 4 American flagships presently carry rine); Bienville, Beauregard (Pan- only 14.6 percent of the nation's lohn Ezell Atlantic); Steel .^e (Isthmian); All of the follouiing SIU familiea have received a $200 maternity Please get in touch with Esther , foreign trade, which shows the de­ Mermaid (Metro); Northwestern benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's narae: at the Salvation Army in Panama gree to which runaway ships have Victory (Victory Carriers) and the been making inroads. Wacosta (Waterman). Marcia Jean Kinehen, born Au­ •. Mrs. Louis F. Greaux, Texas City, City, Florida. gust 29, 1958, to Seafarer and Texas. 4 4 4 Mrs. Robert L. Kinehen, Ham­ tit Robert B. Carey ^ mond, La. Florence Deborah Doyle, born • J. E. Barrlnger 1. ^ May 16, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Your papers are being held for EVERY I James Doyle, Philadelphia, Pa. i-: Begins Lynn Brown, horn Octo­ you by Welfare Services in head­ ber 15, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. tit quarters. Please contact Tobey SUNDAY I DIRECT VOICE Woodrow A. Brown, Tampa, Fla. Hope Cabral, born October 29, Flynn. t iu 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. John 4 4 4 ^ Cabral, Bristol, Rl. I BROADCAST Patricia Ann Gonzales, born Au­ Howard Ross gust 16, 1958, to Seafarer nnd Mrs. tit Aimer Vickers faces a year's Enrique Gonzales ^Jr., Houston^ Lezlee Celeste Herring, born hospitalization and it is important I Texas. October 6, 1958, to .Seafarer and that you get in touch with him at i t i Mrs. Earl William Herring Jr., once. He is at the US Public I Ruskin, Fla. Health Service Hospital, Manhat­ Gail Ann Paradise, born Novem­ tan Beach, B'kiyn 35, NY. You can i i i f _ nr ber 5, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. phone at DE. 2-1001. Leo Paradise, Swansea, Mass. ' Diana Gayle Tulp, born Novem­ TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC iUROPEAN 4 4 4 iffi-' ber 9, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. AND SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS tit John Tulp, Jr., La Marque, "Fex. f Lawrence Duracher, born Octo­ Ex-Crewmembers ber 23„ 1958, to Seafarer and'^Mrs. tit Ocean Ulla te If any of the former crew mem­ Louis B. Duracher, "New Orleans, Patricia M. Wojton, born No­ La. vember 3, 1958, to Seafarer and bers have extra photos of the sea : if-"; Mrs. Stanley M. Wojton, Balti­ hawk that landed on the deck Is- "THE VOICE OF THE 'tit recently please send theip to Emilio MTD" more, Md. EVERY SUNDAY, 1420 GMT (11:20 EU Sunday) Sherry Jackson, born November Issac, c/o SIU, 675 Fourth Ave., t h 12, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. •-f. tit B'kiyn 32, NY. He would like one I'.r WFK-39, 19850 KCs Ships in Caribbean, East Coast Jimmie L. Jackson, Houston, Tex. Divina B. Trevisano, born No­ « of South America, . South Atlan­ for his album. tit vember 23. 1958, to Seafarer and t tic and East Coast of United 4 4 4 States. Patricia A. Greaux, born Sep­ Mrs. Dominick Trevisano, Brook­ tember 11, 1958, to Seafarer and lyn, NY. Robert Banta WFL-65. 15880 KCs Ships in Gulf of Mexico, Carib- Get in touch with Robert W. If heaui West Coast of South Perry, -237' Westover Avenue, Nor­ America, West Coast of Mexico folk, Va. and US East Coast. Visible Whistle' Is WFK-iS, 15700 KCs Ships in Mediterranean area, ' North Atlantic, European and US East Coast Latest Safety Device Tampa Has E ,- A synchronized light-whistle signal has been put in use No Change on a few vessels in the latest step towards reducing ship TAMPA—While all is in good Meanwhile, MID 'Roun^The-World collisions. The signal casts a strong amber beam, horizontally ; V .S ( shape throughout the port, ship­ Wireless Broadcasts Continue • . • in all directions and vertical­ ping continuecf to lag for another Every Sunday, 1915 GMT ly, each time the ship sounds ships, John Sergeant and William period, Tom Banning, port agent, (2:15 PM EST Sunday) her whistle. Patterson, in the near future. MA reports. However the membership ^ WCO-13020 KCs The device was invented in an tugs in reserve fleets have* been is urged to take advantage of this —r- Europe and North America effort to eliminate accidents which equipped with synchronized sig­ slack to come into the hall and vote are due to misunderstanding of nals, also achieving encouraging in the Union's biennial elections. WCO-16908.8 KCs results. Time is running out and each mem­ East Coast South America whistle signals or the iiiability to hear the signal. Often, the weath­ The new signal device is an out­ ber should exercise his right to WCO-2S407 KCs er or the very nature of the sea growth of the collision in 1955 vote for the officials of his choice. West Coast South America will make a sound appear as if it which sank the Andrea Doria, Ital­ There were no vesseJs signing on Every Monday, 0315 GMT is coming from one direction, while ian-flag passenger ship. Signal or paying off in the area during (10:15 PM EST Sunday) in reality it is coming from an­ misunderstanding was partially re­ the past period. In transit were other. The amber light, located sponsible. the Gateway City and Raphael WMM 25-15607 KCs atop the bridge, will help in elim­ Semnies (Pan-Atlantic); Fort Hos­ Australia' inating this as it can penetrate kins (Cities Service) and the Wa­ WMM 81-11037A most fogs and is also clearly visi­ costa (VVaterman). Registration is Northwest Pacific ble" by day or night. heavy iii thfe steward department. The ,, Maritime Administration Banning warns and, from the looks V has indicated it will, install the new of things, -vill not be relieved MARITIIRE TRADES DEPARTMENT fi'?,vice on Its experimental car^o much during the coming period. ...-V- .- D«Minb«r S ^v. SEAFAilERS»L06 ma • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UN IO N • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • TRAINING HEAD URGES MOVE Dump Old Navigation Charts, Commerce Dep't Tells Skippers WASHINGTON—Outdated nautical charts may make excellent 'Open Kjngs Point School keepsakes but they are hazardous when used to direct a ship's course, says the US Department of Commerce. Changes in land­ marks, navigational aids and submerged obstructions—some eight million of them last year, make charts obsolete each year. To Men Out Of Foc's/e' Sometimes within months, a chart can become outdated by the discovery of former wrecks, and changes in fchannels and. buoys. I': .,\. An informal proposal to revive Government maritime trading facilities for unlicensed Modern instruments employed in present surveys-often reveal dan­ K. T-^'- seamen has been put forth by Captain Paul S. Maguire of the US Maritime Administration. gers that were not detected previously. Captain Maguire is in charge of maritime training including the US Merchant Marine Acad­ Economical, sentimental and negligent skippers were warned that emy at Kings Point, Long Is--^ they were jeopardizing the lives of their crews by using cbaits land. Consequently, he would have a one changes coming in the industry. which hav.e not been amended to include the latest findings. A case was Cited of a skipper who had sent in a chart with pencilsd-in Captain Maguire's proposa year course set up for the licensed One stumbling block in such a officers on various subjects related soundings for a blank area on the chart. Investigation showed that would include a two-year program program Is the proposal that the the area had already been surveyed and completely charted, and for unlicensed seamen who already to their profession so as to bring industry bear part of the cost of them up to date on technical such tr-airiiog. that the skipper's chart was several years out of datel have two years' seatime to their Mariners were advised to consult their local Coast Guard District credit. They would be able to get office or the weekly "Notice to Mariners" for thfe latest revisions. 3rd assistant and 3rd mate licenses Vote Deadline Coming Up Those who have an affection for old charts as display pieces are by attending the academy under advised to purchase reproductions of really ancient ones which the proposal. are available in bookstores. A second feature of the program would involve refresher courses for merchant marine officers who came "up the hawse pipe" and have had no formal instruction. The captam MEBA Engineers To Get argues that with all kinds of tetih- nical advances in the offing includ­ ing atom-powered ships, it is neces­ sary for officers to familiarize themselves with a wide variety of Full. Rights In All Ports hew cargo and ship operating gear MIAMI—The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association has of a complex nature. drawn up a program to provide MEBA engineers with the One of the main reasons for the same shipping rights and contract representation in all ports new program, Captain Maguire in­ that they receive in their t * dicated, is the fact that the great home locals. majority of officers are self-edu­ ers. The amendments were drafted cated because " so many Kings A special 10-day convention by an 8-mah committee of delegates Point graduates as weU as gradu­ laid the groundwork for the new representing each of the districts ates of state maritime academies approach in a series of proposed and the BME and chaired by E. N, never go to work in the merchant constitutional amendments that Altman, business manager of Logal marine or else spend only a mini­ spell out the policy and establish 38^. Seattle. President Raymond mum number of years at sea be­ the procedures for carrying it biit. McKay represented the BME. fore going into shoreside jobs. The The amendments will be put into SIU has long been critical of the appropriate legal language in Janu­ Kings Point set-up for this reason, ary and submitted to the MEBA and has argued that the academy membership for approval in a 90- served more as a training center day referendum. New Orleans for Navy ensigns than as a mari­ Seafarer Ricardo Lata leave) booth after filling out his ballot in The amendments represent a time institution. the SlU's biennial election. Another Seafarer checks over the lists compromise between the idea of a In fact, a 1954 survey showed before marking his ballot. Election ends December 31. centralized union with national that only 14 percent of all Kings control of finances and policy and Hails IIP Point graduates were serving in a loos» national grouping with the merchant marine and that the strong local autonomy. remainder were on active Navy KNOWING YOUR The delegates interpreted the re­ duty or working ashore, with over ferendum that authorized the con-: Picket Move 60 percent of the graduates in vention as a membership demand NEW ORLEANS—A great deal shoreside jobs. The survey covered SIU CONTRACT for equality and better service than df interest in the ITF worldwide the period 1945 to 1953, so all of the old constitution provided. anti-runaway drive was voiced by the men involved were yoimg and (This column is intended to acquaint Seafarers with important Small Port Representation the membership at the last regular had put in little or no time work­ provisions of the SIU contract and will deal with disposition of Steps also were taken to insure meeting in this port. A number of ing on ships. The class of 1946, for various contract disputes and interpretations of the agreement. If more effective representation in Seafarers took the floor and spoke example had less than nine per­ Seafarers have any questions about any'section of the agreement which small ports. The convention set on the dangers which result from cent of its members working on they would like to have clarified, send them in to the editor of the up the machinery for an expanded allowing American-owned vessels ships eight years later. SEAFARERS LOG.) program of national subsidies to to register under a runaway flag. As Captain Maguire put It, "the Section 30(b). For the purposes of this agreement the following provide full-time representation in While shipping for the period majority of ship's officers educate are classed as penalty; ports that have had to get along was very good in all three depart^ themselves for their professions." In bulk: with part-time service, and author­ ments, registration is still on the Bones Caustic Soda ized mandatory mergers in cases heavy side. In addition to the 160 ^rh Green Hides Soda Ash where merger would provide bet­ men shipped to deep sea berths Manure Creosoted Lumber ter service. there were 21 relief jobs and 43 SCHEDULE OF The same thinking also led to a berths on "vessels working here in In Bags or Bulk revision of the MEBA policy on the harbor during the past two I'.'-i-"- Bone Meal Saltcake voluntary mergers, which had been weeks. SIU MEETIMGS Chloride or Lime Super Phosphate limited to the amalgamation of a There was a total of 26 vessels Lampblack Cyanide very" small local with a larger ad­ calling into the area during the SIU membership meet­ Carbonblack Cement joining one in the same district. period. Five ships paid off, two ings are held regularly Sulphur Gasoline carried In any manner Locals with more than lOO mem­ signed on and 19 were in transit. Copra (3,000 tons) Greave Cakes every two '^eeks on Wed­ bers were barred from mergihg, The vessels paying off were the (c) On vessels carrying penalty cargoes In bulk In the combined even if the-members of both locals Del Sud, Del Sol (Mlssissippi)i nesday nights at 7 PM in weight of 1,000 long tons or over, unless otherwise specified, the wanted an amalgamation. The pro­ Steel Age, Steel Apprentice (Isth* all SIU ports. All Sea­ Company agrees to pay each member of the Unlicensed Personnel, posed amendments would permit mian) and the Almena (Clover). farers are expected to in addition to the regular monthly wages, 10 percent of such wages voluntary mergers betweeh ad­ Signing on were the Del Sud from the time the loading of the penalty cargo is started until the joining locals in the same or sepa­ (Mississippi) and the Steel -Age attend; those who wish to penalty cargo Is completely discharged.. rate districts, regardless of the (Isthmian). be excused should request J" 4 size of-their memberships. The in-transit vessels were the permission by telegram Question: Are there occasions when gasoline Is not a penalty cargo The convention laid the ground­ Alcoa Ranger, Alcoa Cavalier, r item? work for a national organizing de­ Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa Clipper > (be sure to include regis­ 4" 4" 4" partment. It also provided for (Alcoa); Seatralns Louisiana, tration number). The next When a freighter, which had carried a cargo of gasoline In bar­ constitutional amendments through Georgia (Seatraln); Del Sud (Mis« StU meetings will be: rels paid off recently, the shipowners refused to pay' the men the joint action of the convention and sissippi); Lucille Bloomfield, Mar* additional 10 percent, contending that the gasoline was not carried membership referendum. Previ­ garett Brown (Bloomfield); Steel 'ISi'rr>.:v'^v: in bulk. The Union rejected this interpretation claiming that over ously the constitution could be Seafarer, Steel Traveler, Steel Age fe.y- ^r;:'/' December 10 1.000 tons of gasoline carried in any manner entitled the crew to the amended only by a convention. (Isthmian); Arlzpa, Claiborne, •-"v*' . '.' - tional wages V-rf: :ic- The convention met from Nov. Monarch of the Seaf, Wacdsta _ December 24 Union officials discussed the matter with the owners and it was 15 to. Nov. 24 an4 was atteiided by (Waterman);- Raphael Semmes, mutually decided that the crew's demands were legitimate. Gasoline, delegates from 21 MEBA locals on Gateway City (Pan-Atlantic) and fv- January 7 in excess of 1,000 tons automatically entitled the men to'the addi­ the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific the Northwestern Victory (Victory '•-4 • tional wages. Coasts, the Great Lakes and the Riv­ Carriers). *