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Seafarers^Log Official Orqan of the Seafarers International Union • Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District • Afl-Cio Page Tkree r I Vol. XXVII } No> 1 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORQAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO N • In This Issue: MTD Pledges Action To Fight Proposed USPHS Hospital Closings -Story On Page 3 '*i . Indiana Scraps "Right-to-Work"- Labor Readies 14(b) Repeal Drive -Story On Page 3 Seafarer oldtimer Andre Platis (left above) gets hearty con^atulations Contract Negotiations Stall from SIU headquarters representative Steve Zubovich as he picks up a whopping $1,174 SIU vacation check. The check covers vacation Longshore Strike Settlement benefits accumulated by Seafarer Plati^ during a period of sailing aboard the City of Alma (Waterman). -Story On Page 2 SIU Manned Research Ship Pays Off After 2-Year Indian Ocean Trip • Story On Pages 2, 24 SIU Pacific District Ship Wins MA "Gallant Ship" Award — Story On Page 4 Three More Seafarer Oldtimers Retire On Pension Benefits — Story On Page 5 Medicare Legislation Passage The SlU-contracted research vessel Anton Bruun (Alpine Geophysical) returned to New York this week Seen Possible During Spring after a two-year expedition spent gathering scientific -data in the Indian Ocean. For the complete story see pages 2 and 24. Seafarer Ports Of The World- SIU Great Lakes Tug & Dredge member James Howes bagged the 533 pound, 12 point bull elk shown Cosmopolitan Rio do Janeiro at left during special elk season held recently in Michigan. Howes is employed by the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. as a deckhand. KEY TO CONGRESS Various key committees m the House and Senate 1 hold vast power in the passage of legislation of IN THIS vital interest to American workers. A knowledge THE COMMITTEE of these congressional committees and how they ISSUE work is of growing importance to Seafarers. 'i, . See Centerfold iwe*lw Febrmir SK 196& - •age Tir# SEAFARERS LOG I 1 SlU Manned R/V Anton Bruun Pays Off After Two-Year Trip By Paul Hall NEW YORK—The R/V Anton Bruun (Alpine Geophysical) returned here this week In recent weeks, the Indiana legislature repealed that state's union- after spending two years conducting oceanographic research in the Indian Ocean. Five busting "righit-to-work" law. This action by the Indiana lawmakers Seafarers who paid off the research ship had remained on board for the entire 24 month sci­ signaled the beginning of the end for this piece of anti-labor, anti- American legislation. Today, 19 states, all of them with relatively entific expedition. search voyages long after other potential will be available to these small industrial labor forces, still carry such laws on their books. If The Anton Bruun made vessels in the expedition had head­ countries. the indications are correct, those states will not carry them for very ed for their home ports. Scientists from U.S. private and much longer. nine major scientific cruises, In his State of the Union address, President Johnson called for the covering remote and little known International Effort government biological research laboratories as well as from 24 revision of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allowed the areas of the Indian Ocean as part The Anton Bruun's research has states to pass "right-to-work" laws in the first place. In that action, of the International Indian Ocean foreign countries participated in important significance for the hun­ the research conducted aboard the the AFL-CIO gave the President its full backing. The Congress, with Expedition (I.I.O.E.). This vast re­ gry populations that live in coun­ Anton Bruun. The ship's scientific many new members who are friends of labor, is expected to act search program into the biological tries bordering the Indian Ocean. favorably on the President's recommendation. As the people of Indiana and oceanographic mysteries of the complement changed with each of Scientists on the vessel have come the nine cruises as 25 new re­ learned through hard experience, "right-to-work" solved no problems region, called for the research ship to the conclusion that the ocean and created many new ones. It dragged down the state's wages and to sail a total of 72,000 miles as searchers, including a few women is a highly productive fishing area, scientists, would come on board to working conditions and benefitted no one except the anti-labor ex­ she made long, systematic longi­ since they observed large masses take advantage of the latest scien­ treme right and those-employers who found quick profit in the open tudinal cruises in the western half of dead fish in certain areas. When tific instruments on the vessel. shop system. of the ocean. the huge quantity of scientific data In the states where such laws still exist, union organization has (Pictures of the Anton Bruun's the ship's researchers gathered is Seafarers shipping on the Anton been severely hampered and those working under the worst conditions SIU crewmembers and the expedi­ completely analyzed, vital knowl­ Bruun found that working on a re- and wages in our nation have been kept in economic bondage and tion appear on the back page of edge of the Indian Ocean's fishing (Continued on page 23) prevented from securing their rights as working men and women by this issue.) the laws. The partisans of "right-to-work," many of the same crowd Last Frontier who oppose social security, medicare and other social advances, appear to be on the verge of defeat in this instance. Needless to say, they The Indian Ocean is one of the Appalachia Aid Bill will be back with new schemes to deny American working men and last frontiers to the world's ocean- vwmien their rights. Only a strong and determined effort to move ographers. The lack of scieptific forward on all social fronts—^medicare, poverty, civil rights, etc.— knowledge about the huge ocean will keep them from foisting their tricks on us again. has made it a research center of Cains Senate Okay attraction for scientists all over WASHINGTON—The Administration's $1.1 billion bill to the world. aid the depressed 11-state Appalachia region received over­ The strike by 5000 New York Welfare D^artment workers ended A small Beet of research vessels February 1 after 28 days. Aside from the inajor issues of wages and took part in the oceanographic re­ whelming approval from the U.S. Senate this week. Presi­ working conditions for the employees of the Department, the strike search program sponsored by the dent Johnson, who had placed also brought attention again to the state's viciously anti-labor Condon- I.I.O.E. and the Anton Bruun's sci­ the legislation at the top of uled for reclaiming this ruined Wadlin Act. This law provides that striking public employees may be' entists were so determined that his legislative "must" list, land under 4he act. arrested, dismissed or fined for engaging in an activity entirely legal their ship continued to conduct re- hailed passage of the bill and Other major expenditures au­ and proper for other citizens to take part in. In other words, it means predicted quick action when it thorized by the bill include $41 that the public employee is a second-class citizen, denied, as he is, comes up for House consideration. million for hospital construction the only effective means of making his grievances toown. As part of tiie settlement, the unions involved in the strike will take The Appalachia bill now is be­ and $16 million for hospital main­ fore the House, which failed to tenance, $5.5 million for research the Condon-Wadlin Act before the State Supreme Court to test its N.Y. Welfare act on it last year. Urging final and development, $5 million for constitutionality. This was neVer done before because dty administra­ action on the bill by the House timber development, $6 million tions had always, been leery of invc^ng the law since it was so after the Senate passed the legis­ for sewage treatment facilities and universally hated. The labor movement in New York, united in its Unions Vote lation by a . 62-22 margin, the $5 million for ' water resource support of the Welfare workers, is also united in its opposition to President said it would benefit studies. Condon-Wadlin. As with 14(b), the sooner Condon-Wadlin is thrown "not only Appalachia, but the Eleven States out, the better for all New Yorkers. To End Strike whole nation." The Appalachia area is com­ » • * NEW YORK—More than 5,000 Various Programs posed of 355 counties in West One of the oldest and most valuable benefits for American seamen city Welfare Department Workers Virginia and parts of Pennsylva­ has been the United States Public Health Service chain of hospitals. The legislation will provide $1.1 Many thousands of Seafarers owe their lives and good health to the returned to their jobs February 1 billion in various aid programs for nia, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, existance of these hospitals. Now, in a so-called "economy move," the after approving a four-point settle­ the mountainous 165,000 square Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro­ lina, South Carolina, Georgia and ment formula that ended their 28- mile area which makes up Appa­ government is proposing to close down seven of these hospitals In what Alabama. day strike. lachia. More than 15 million peo­ could be the opening move to abandon the whole USPHS program. The SIU, imited with all of maritime labor and leading segments of Members of the two striking ple, many of them poverty- Proposed regional development stricken, live in' the forgotten programs that would include New the industry, does not propose to let this happen." These hospitals unions—the Social iService Em­ have proved as vital to the American merchant marine as any piece ployees Union and Local 371 of the hamlets and villages that dot the England, the Upper Great Lakes narrow valleys in the region.
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