OfBclal Publication of the Seafarera lniernatlonal Union• Atlantic, GuU, Lakes andInlandWaters District• AFL-CIO Vol. 48 No. I January 1986

Strike for Fair Share

a1v1s1on SIU Fishermen Shut ���!�r-....•• • , . �,- :..... \1 • • •• � .- ... . . , ...... s..�, ,_,,,, �_ •ces• _� ._ · ··-'"'-- ...,.� .. . · � &l l(•O ·- I New Bedford Harbor MN Rover Plucks 63 Even Ebenezer Scrooge couldn't "self-employed," the boat owners were come up with a more depressing sce­ able to get the fishermen working for From South China Sea nario. Faced with the prospect of a them to assume the full cost of their wage cutback in excess of 20 percent, own Social Security and unemploy-

New Bedford fishermen called for a ment taxes." _ strike. Two days after Christmas, at a The strike, called against the Sea­ time when most people are making food Producers Association which last minute plans for New Year's, 600 represents 32 boat owners, is costing of these newly organized SIU mem­ the city of New Bedford $1 million a bers were braving freezing weather on day. Both sides agree, however, that picket lines at 23 sites around Mas­ the strike was precipitated by wors­ sachusetts. ening conditions in the fishing indus­ At the same time, however, there try. It has been hard hit by heavily was a sense of purpose and solidarity. subsidized Canadian imports, insur­ "I don't like doing this any more than ance problems and a recent ruling by anyone else," said SIU fisherman Mark the World Court which declared that

Preference Fight Ends Farm Bill Increases U.S.

When striking SIU fishermen in New Bedford put a stranglehold on the nation's busiest S S fishing harbor, the city's auction house (above) had to close its doors. Once the center of hips' hare of P.L. 480 activity, the auction house has no fish to sell. U.S.-flag ships will begin carrying ing to give up preference rights to so­ Saunders to a Journal of Commerce the rich fishingbanks of the St. George's IO percent more P.L. 480 cargo this called commercial export programs, reporter. "But there's a point to be are under Canadian jurisdiction. year, and by 1988 SIU and other Amer­ even though a federal court had ruled made." The strike has temporarily alle­ ican ships will haul 75 percent of those in favor of the Union's claim to pref­ "People can only stand so much," viated one nagging problem. Fish shipments under the provisions of the erence requirements on those pro­ said Jack Caffey, special assistant to prices, which were at intolerably low new, five-year, $160 billion farm bill. grams. the SIU president. "The New Bedford levels, have risen dramatically in re­ President Reagan signed the bill late Each house passed its version of a fishermen had to accept a de facto cent days. last month. farm bill in early December. The Sen­ cutback three years ago when the SIU fishermen, who make up about The approval of the farm bill sig­ ate bill contained the Union-backed owners persuaded the union repre­ one-third of New Bedford'sfishermen, naled the end of one of the most brutal compromise. The House version senting the fishermen before the SIU do not receive a fixed salary, but are and long fights over the cargo prefer­ maintained cargo preference regula­ to accept a change in their employment awarded a certain percentage of the ence issue in decades. It also showed tions at the 50 percent level, but it did status. By reclassifying fishermen as (Continued on Page 32.) what two groups who were initially not directly address the controversial opposed to each other can accomplish issue of commercial cargoes. through tough but reasonable negoti­ Prior to the House/Senate confer­ Inside: ations. ence, the House Merchant Marine The cargo preference compromise, Subcommittee held a hearing where New Build and Charter Program Page s a small part of the massive farm bill, opponents of the compromise had one increases the share of cargo for Amer­ last chance to try to scuttle the agree­ SIU Crews Float-On/Float-Off Pages ican ships from 50 to 75 percent on a ment. Representatives from the De­ 10-10-5 percent timetable during the partment of Agriculture, the Navy, next three years. the Agency for International Devel­ Overseas Alice Rescues Page 4 4 7 Up to the last stages of the farm opment and Marad spoke out against bill's passage, the administration and the compromise. They were joined in A Look Back at Pages 11-24 many large and powerful agri-business 1985 their attacks by the North American groups continued their attacks on the Grain Export Association, Millers Na- Pensioner Housing At Piney Point Pages2 compromise. The fighting continued despite compromise supporters agree- (Continued on Page 3.) of federally-supported foreign aid We are continuing to develop new President's Report shipments would not harm the econ­ training and upgrading programs for omy of their farming constituents. our members. Our scholarship com­ by Frank Drozak mittee· is presently taking applications from our members and their depend­ * * * ents for college scholarship programs. start the New Year facing a E Finally, I see this new year as one And, I am proud to announce that our number of serious problems. Our W of both a challenge and an opportunity school is now fully accredited to grant industry is awash in the confused seas for us. As an organization we aren't two-year college degrees to our mem­ of an adminis ration that cannot put t doing too badly, and we are developing bers in the field of nautical sciences. together a consistent maritime pro­ We are continuing to plan and work a number of new programs to make gram. Manning requirements in mili­ our Union even better for our mem­ toward our goal of having a full four­ tary vessel contract proposals are b.ers and their families. year degree granting program at our placing increasing strains on the ability school. During the past year we have im­ of maritime unions to provide fully­ proved our claims processing systems, trainedcrews. And the maritime unions, * * * and still newer improvements are being themselves, are unable to put together put into· place. We have set up a So, you can see that although we a unified program for survival and program for those members who want are faced with many problems as we growth. the option to get a lump-sum buyout begin this year, we are also in a place That's a tough assessment of where on their pensions. Beginningthis month, of opportunity. I believe that if we we stand as this new year begins, but we have a new program to provide continue to communicate with each I believe it's an honest and accurate housing for our pensioners at our fa­ other, and work together, we will con­ picture. cilities in Piney Point. Also this month, tinue to make progress in those areas Five years ago, the Reagan admin­ we begin a program to help those of that most concern us as a Union: job istration began with a promise to de­ our members who have a problem with security, our health and welfare, and sign a maritime program that would drug addiction. our continuing education. revitalize our badly ailing industry. That isn't bad. If you take a good That hasn't happened. Instead, we look at what's happening in this in­ have had to spend four years expend­ dustry, and especially what's happen­ ing much time and energy in the leg­ ing with the other unlicensed unions, islative halls of Congress just holding we have done quite well. But, it didn't on to what we already had. We had just happen. We have these jobs be­ to beat back those who would take cause we have developed the kind of from the holds of U.S.-flag ships those training programs that can prepare our cargoes that are keeping what's left of membership for new opportunities, and our nation's merchant marine afloat. because our membership is responding There were serious attempts to give to these new job opportunities by be­ away Alaskan oil which would have . coming qualified for them through the been diverted to foreign-flag super­ Seafarers' training programs. tankers. We fought a long and grueling battle with the powerful farm lobby to * * * protect the legislated right of the U.S. There are some bright spots as we merchant marine to carry foreign car­ begin 1986. I think that Congress is goes. finally convinced that something has Because we did our tromework:and to be done to encourage trade to pre­ showed up every day, and had the vent the total erosion of America's support of our membership, we were industrial base. I think Congress is able to win these battles and preserve also finally becoming convinced that the jobs of hundreds of our members. America's maritime industry needs to

* * * be a viable component of this nation's trade policy for reasons having to do As.we go into 1986, the biggest game with our economy and our national in town is military work. In the past defense. year we were able to secure 35 military In the past four years we have de­ support vessels. This brought our veloped meaningful dialogues with membership 680 jobs which helped to members of Congress of both political SIU offset the job losses we suffered as parties. We have done this through Just before Christmas, members were in Los Angeles walking picket lines and carrying signs in support of 22,000 UFCW and Teamster meat cutters on strike in Southern many of our commercial vessels were our members' continued support of California against major California supermarket chains. Above, SIU members posed with laid up or scrapped because there was SPAD, and through our ability to rea­ Maritime Port Council affiliates during a loud raUy in McArthur Park where 2,000 turned no cargo for them. By June of this son and our willingness to compro­ out to protest lock-outs and an impasse in negotiations. Negotiations had stalled six weeks year, we figure to be manning 45 mil­ mise. It was by no accident that we earlier, when management refused to back away from its subcontracting and two-tier leaving itary ships with a total of 850 good were able to convince legislators from wage proposals grocery workers no choice but to vote to strike. jobs for this membership. many farm states that the continuation

Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of Vol. No. Januaiy 1986 North America, Aliantlc, Gutt, lakes and Inland Waters District, 48. 1 AFL.CIO

. Executive Board Frank Drozak President Joe DIGlorglo Ed Turner Secretary Executive Vice President Angus "Red" Campbell Mike Sacco Leon Hall Vice President Vice President Vice President Charles Svenson Joe Sacco George McCartney Roy A. Mercer Editor Vice President Vice President Vice President I Mike Hall Managing Editor

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2 I LOG I January 1986 Funds Appropriated But Not Authorized Whats a FO/FO? BUILD AND CHARTER SIU Crews Float-On/Float-Off Ship PROGRAM PART OF 1986 SPENDING BILL For the first time since the Reagan an operator, all based on competitive administration took office, Congress bidding. has passed and the president has signed "This is certainly a step in the right

legislation which appropriates $852 direction. It's the first infusion of ship­ million for ship construction in a build building money by the government in One of the more unusual ships afloat is the Cormo­ and charter program. more than fiveyears. But we're going rant (Pacific Gulf Marine). It is a semi-submersible There is only one hitch. The money to have to wait and see how this whole has been appropriated, but Congress thing shakes out," SIU President Frank or float-on/float-off ship. It can carry four Army has not authorized the spending of any Drozak said. tugs plus other equipment. When a tug or other of the funds. Normally Congress will authorize a vessel is brought aboard, the Cormorant ballasts The money, named the Maritime certain program and then in separate Fund, is part of a joint House/Senate action it will appropriate money for down until six to 20 feet of water cover the work resolution which is an omnibus $368 the program. . This time the action is deck, and the ships are floated on and secured. billion spending bill for fiscal 1986. reversed, but both steps are needed Then it de-ballasts and the vessels can be stored or The fund is "patterned after Presi­ before a penny can be spent. dent Eisenhower's mariner program Members of the House/Senate con­ even repaired onboard. The Cormorant is sta­ to construct ships forcommercial op­ ference which developed the fund said tioned in Diego Garcia. It is 739.1 feet long, 40,685 eration which may be used formilitary in a report thatthey hope to begin the GWT, has a 135-foot beam and 19,700 horsepower. sealift," the conference report said. program as "soon as possible after Ifthe money is authorized, experts authorization is enacted." It carries an unlicensed crew of 11. estimate that some 10 to 12 ships could In addition, $228 million was set be built with the $852 million. It is aside in another resolution to re-engine similar to a bill introduced in Novem­ and modernize ships the Navy might ber by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). buy for its Strategic Sealift Program. The Navy would determine what type Any revenues fromthe build and charter of ships would be needed, such as RO/ program would be returned to the RO's, crane ships, tankers or troop­ Maritime Fund so it could maintain ships and then designate a builder and itself or grow. SHLSS Wins OK for 2- Year College Degree SIU-Backed Farm Bill Signed In November of 1985, the Seafarers the SIU and the SHLSS are committed (Continued from Page 1.) being and national security objectives Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ and able to provide highly trained tional Federation and other agri-busi­ of our nation ... Both industries must ship was approved as a two-year de­ workers in the maritime field. How­ ness groups. compete in an international market gree granting institution by the Mary­ ever, the new degreegranting program The SIU, the Transportation Insti­ increasingly dominated by foreign trade land State Board for Higher Education. will provide more than occupational tute, the Council of American Flag barriers and the subsidization of for­ The school now has the authority to training to the members of the SIU; it Operators, Joint Maritime Congress eign governments . . . Increased ag­ award associate in arts degrees in will provide solid academic training in and MIRID strongly supported the ricultural exports and the utilization Nautical Science Technology and Ma­ such areas as English, math, physics, bill. Several farm groups including the of United States merchant vessels con­ rine Engineering Technology. engineering principles, social sci­ National Com Growers Association, tribute positively to the United States The approval for the SHLSS marks ences, physical sciences and humani­ National Association of Wheat Grow­ balance of trade and generate employ­ the end of a two-year process in which ties. ers, National Cotton Council, the Rice ment opportunities in the United SHLSS worked with the Maryland The new college program is de­ Millers' Association and the National States ...The purpose [of the bill] is State Board forHigher Education and signed to provide the flexibility that Council of Farm Cooperatives also to stimulate and promote both the Dr. David Sumler, coordinator for Seafarers need to achieve a higher backed the compromise. agricultural and maritime industries of Collegiate Approval and Evaluation. education.Unlike traditional semester "The group of people outside the the United States and encourage co­ In order to achieve degree granting systems that most colleges have, the maritime industry who agreed with the operative efforts by both industries to status, SHLSS had to meet all require­ SHLSS degree program will be de­ compromise shows that it must be a address their common problems," the ments of the state of Maryland for signed to meet the needs of Seafarers fairway of solving a very tough issue," conference report said. two-year colleges. The process of the who are not always able to attend said SIU President Frank Drozak. Along with the increased share of state's judging of the school included school for whole semesters at a time. During the House/Senate confer­ government cargo, the bill also calls evaluation team visits by respected The SHLSS program will offercourses ence, the SIU-backed compromise for a minimum tonnage requirement educators. The evaluators examined three or four times per year for six to emerged as the bill's cargo preference for the cargoes, a 'snap-back' provi­ all aspects of the school's operations JO-week periods. Members will be al­ provision. It passed the House on a sion to original cargo preference law including administration, curriculum, lowed to come back to school for 325-96 vote and the Senate by a 55- should funding for the program be faculty, finances, admissions and fa­ college courses just as they do for 38 margin. terminated at a future date, a mecha­ cilities. upgrading courses.Members who wish "A productive and healthy agricul­ nism to protect against freight rate The degree programs are designed to earntheir degreewill come to SHLSS ture industry and a strong and active inflation and a national advisory com­ to provide the members of the SIU and work on a sequence of two to four United States maritime industry are mission on agricultural export trans­ with the opportunity to earn a two­ courses over a six to 10-week period. vitally important to the economic well- portation to begin work this year. year college degree in their occupa­ The college program will work just tional area and to provide a solid like upgrading, but instead of taking a academic background in the sciences, vocational class, the student will be I (for deck department members). about it can contact the Admissions arts and humanities. Earning degree enrolled in the college program. The These new courses will begin in the Office or Tracy Aumann at the Sea­ granting approval from the Maryland first sequence of college courses to be early spring around the beginning of farersHarry Lundeberg School of Sea­ State Board for Higher Education is a offered will be English 101: Compo­ March and are the first sequence of manship, Piney Point, Md. 20674.This big step for SHLSS. The approval sition and Rhetoric; MTH 108: Intro­ courses needed for the new college is the time for members to get in on from the state confirmsthat the school duction to College Mathematics, and degrees. The first sequence of three the ground floor of this new and ex­ is providing top quality educational either MET 221: Engineering Princi­ courses will run for six weeks. Any citing educational opportunity. Watch experiences and instruction to the ples I (for engine department majors) members interested in starting the col­ your LOG for more stories and infor­ members of the SIU. It proves that or PHS 101: General Physical Science lege program or having any questions mation about the process.

January 1986 I LOG I 3 USAF, Navy Choppers Pick Up Others 81 Overseas Alice Crew Saves 46 in Heroic Rescue

SUBIC BAY, P.1.-Seven U.S. Navy 7th Fleet helicopters from here, two of the U.S. 13th Air Force of Clark Air Base, Manila and the crew of the MSC's SIU-manned Overseas Alice (Maritime Overseas) rescued 127 of the 175-passenger and crew from the Asuncion Cinco.

The Cinco, a 15-year-old, 250 dwt, inter-island Filipino fe rry boat, sank on Dec. 18, nearly 200 miles south of here in the Mindoro Strait, South China Sea. The ferry was enroute from Tay­ tay, Western Palawan Is. to Manila.

The rescue operation was sparked by an S-0-S from a passing merchant vessel which saved three survivors in the water.

Five Navy Patrol Squadron 22 search-and-rescue planes and chop­ pers and two Fleet Squadron 5 Sea King choppers and the Overseas Alice in the South China Sea were dis­ patched to the sinking ferry at 4 p.m. This was the second at-sea rescue in six months for the Overseas Alice. Watch for next month's LOG and pictures of the rescue taken by Dec. 18. a crewmember aboard the Overseas Alice. Hawaii to Southern California when hands in their successful rescue of 50 Squadron 5 aircrews spotted and he had engine trouble 85 miles off the survivors fromthe sinking ferryAsun­ Kings Point Honors picked up out of the sea eight drifting coastline. cion Cinco on Dec. 18-19, 1985. Your seamen off Palawan Is. at about 5 p.m. Apex Marine Chief timely response and the action of your Later it was learned that they had Also, last May 4 the generous Over­ crew exemplifies professionalism and Capt. Leo V. Berger, head of the been cast into the sea off the ferry in seas Alice crewmembers donated the highest skill of seamanship within SIU-manned Apex Marine (Avon a small boat which was broken up in baseball uniforms, gloves, bats, balls the finest tradition of the sea. The Steamship), has been named winner heavy seas. and other baseball equipment to the humanitarian efforts by all hands re­ of the 1985 Alumnus of the YearAward Cavite City, P.I. Little League base­ Then the Navy choppercrews picked flects the concern of the merchant of the U.S. Merchant Marine Acad­ ball team. up more survivors from the sunken mariner for the safety and protection emy Alumni Assn., at Kings Point, ferry, flying them to the U.S. Naval The heroic rescue crew of the Over­ of lifeat sea at all times. It is reassuring N.Y. Hospital in Subic Bay and the Olon­ seas Alice was Capt. Richard Trippe to know that during these changing Capt. Berger graduated from the gapo City (P.I.) Hospital fortreatment and his officers, Bosun Steven Cope­ times in our world, the American sea­ academy in 1943. for exposure. land, Chief Steward Collie Loper, who farer is ready, willing and able to A ward winners are picked for their gave some of the Little League base­ serve. We are proud of all of you. career achievements and their support The Overseas Alice reached the dis­ ball equipment, Chief Pumpman and Maritime Overseas Corp." of the school. aster area at about 9:30 p.m., rescuing QMED Steven Bower, Chief Cook about 50 survivors in heavy seas in Edward P. Herrera, ABs Richard G. the dark pre-dawn hours of Dec. 19. Buchanan, William Rawluk, William James Allan Golder, 61, At first light on Dec. 19, two Navy A. Cruickshank, Leonard R. Wright, and two Air Force Jolly Green Giant Oscar A. Martinez, Rudolfo Aso­ Dies on New Year's Day; search-ana-rescue choppers were sent pardo, OSs Hugh A. Wooten and Har­ old L. Loew, Steward Assts. Jaber A. to the scene where they plucked l 0 Burial in Piney Point survivors out of the water and re­ Ali and Reynaldo Rodriguez, OMUs David G. Locsin Jr., Roger J. Hark­ covered five bodies. They later ferried James "Jim" Allan Golder, 61, died Steward Golder sailed the seven 23 of the survivors to Manila from the leroad and Kenneth I. Harder and of heart failure in Vassar Hospital, seas and experienced a fire aboard Wiper Renaldo V. Rosette. deck of the Overseas Alice where a Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on New Year's ship in the engine room on the SS Navy doctor and medical team were Just beforeChristmas Day, the Navy Day. Notre Dame in 1975 . On and off from attending the survivors. and Maritime Overseas sent congrat­ 1968 to 1977, he sailed for Construc­ Brother Golder joined the SIU in ulatory messages to the Overseas Al­ tion Aggregates de Venezuela, Mara- The next day the Overseas Alice 1943 in the port of Norfolk and last ice crew: caibo aboard the dredges Sand Cap­ delivered 46 survivors and seven dead sailed as a recertified chief steward. tain and EzraZensibar. He also worked "The pivotal role played by the He graduated from the Union's Re- to the port of Subic Bay. Earlier the as a port steward for them in Vene­ Overseas Alice in her second at-sea certified Chief Stewards Program in crew had spread the blanket, collect­ zuela. rescue in six months is noted with 1979. Seafarer Golder hit the bricks in ing $550 for the survivors, giving each From 1971_72 he was on the Sea-. pleasure. Your action in the rescue of the 1946 General Maritime beef, the one 200 pesos. Survivor Analilibet Land Shoregang, Port Elizabeth, N.J. a large number of survivors from the 1947 Isthmian strike, the 1948 Wall St. Acar was given 375 pesos. Six of his In 1980 he rode the LNG El Paso Paul Philippine ferryepitomizes the Amer­ beef and the 1965 District Council 37 family of eight survived the sinking. Kayser, and in 1981-82 he was aboard ican merchant mariner's dedication to strike in which he served as a picket the LNG Virgo (Energy Transporta­ Between the crew and the ship's humanitarian causes. captain. In 1955 he was a patrolman tion). slop chest, they were able to clothe in the port of New York helping or- "The compassion, endurance and Jim was born in Woodbine, Iowa most of the survivors, and U.S. Navy ganize the Atlantic Steamship Co. chaplain aboard gave more clothes to bravery you displayed during the re­ and was a resident of Pleasant Valley, completely clothe all survivors. cent rescue at sea have won admira­ From November 1969 to July 1970, N.Y. tion PACOM-wide. No one could have Jim Golder served on the SIU Pension Cremation took place in Pough­ Last summer the Overseas Alice performed more professionally. Well Study Committee, and also Union keepsie after funeral services at home. picked up more than a dozen refugee done, COMSAC, Washington, D.C." Contract Negotiating Committees, Fi- Burial was in the Piney Point Ceme­ boatpeople out of the cruel sea and "To Master, Officers and Crew: nancial Tallying Committees and was tery. put them ashore in the Philippines. In a delegate to the April 1984 Deep Sea Surviving are his brother, Keith of 1969 the tanker plucked out of the "On behalf of your vessel owners Crews Conference at the SHLSS, Pi- Sydney, Neb. and two sisters, Evelyn and the management and staff of the storm-tossed Pacific Ocean a downed ney Point, Md. Jim also wrote articles Eggleton of Bird Is., Minn. and Mar- Maritime Overseas Corp., please ac­ De Havilland Dove airplane ferry pi­ for the LOG. jorie Fewell of Lincoln, Calif. lot, Warren Bullock, 47, enroute from cept a resounding 'well done' for all

4 I LOG I January 1986 tug/tow , .. barge/dredge i Most Grain Barges, Towboats Escape Winter's First Freeze Orgulf Boatmen Get 30-30 Before their new contract went into contract covering Orgulf Boatmen. More than 200 grain barges and 37 reported a Minnesota Department of effectJan. 1, 1986, Boatmen employed Circumstances played a large part in towboats escaped the winter freeze in Transportation official. "We had a by Orgulf could never be certain of determining the revision when Mid­ mid-December on the Lower Missis­ dozen straight days of single-digit tem­ their work schedules, even though land Industries purchased Heartland sippi River despite unseasonably cold peratures," creating a thick sheet of their previous contract spelled out a Transportation last year. With the ac­ temperatures and an earlier than usual ice making navigation impossible. 30-day work shift with 15 days off quisition, Orgulf, a subsidiary of Mid­ deep freeze. So when grain traffic soared toward inbetween. land, absorbed Heartland Transpor­ On the Upper Mississippi, however, the end of the season, it led many The problem, according to St. Louis tation, ending the Heartland contract. north of Guttenburg, Iowa to above barge companies to stay until early Port Agent Mike Dagon, was that it And Orgulf became the first inland Winona, Min� .. 147 barges and 15 December to get one last grain cargo. was almost impossible to juggle the company with SIU members to insti­ towboats will remain tied up until "After a very slow year, there was two varying time slots. When a Boat­ tute a 30-30 schedule. springtime because they can't pass a feeling late in the season among man was ready to work, the worker "It was something SIU members through the thick ice there. grain owners to get the grain out before he should have replaced was not nec­ had asked for in their last contract," As of Dec. 16, only about 20 barges off-season carrying charges came into essarily at the end of his 30 days and said Dagon. "I really don't expect to remained in the Mississippi River sec­ effect.That pushed barge rates up and ready to leave the vessel. hear any complaints from our mem­ tion running from Guttenburg south then a lot of barge tonnage was at­ All that was changed with the latest bers," he said. to Hannibal, Mo., according to the tracted," said one owner. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Normally, the northern part of the The cold spell that caused the early Mississippi near Minneapolis-St. Paul, freeze developed gradually so most SONAT on AFL's Unfair List Minn. freezes in early December so operators on the Upper Mississippi barge companies try to leave the area were able to tie up their equipment at In December the AFL-CIO placed of tugboat workers from contract ne­ by Thanksgiving Day. But last year river ports such as Winona, Minn. and SONAT Marine, Inc. on the list it gotiations. While the issue makes its heavy ice developed on the river around Alma, Wis. keeps of companies who have engaged way through the courts, captains, Nov. 27 and has been thickening ever In 1983, a severe December freeze in unfair treatment of union workers. mates and barge captains who were since, catching the operators by sur­ trapped barges in river channels before It is circulating the resolution it passed reclassified as ''supervisors'' have been prise, the companies had a chance to navi­ against the company to small and large working without a union contract. Many "This was the earliest icing that gate to terminals. This year's tie-up is labor union locals, labor publications live with the fear that without a union anybody in the industry can recall," less serious, they said. and labor councils throughout the na­ contract they could be fired without tion. cause. Medical benefits and pensions, The AFL-CIO stopped short of add­ a structure forentering grievances and ing SONAT to its boycott list because the safety protections provided by their its services are sold to companies and membership in the SIU have been lost not readily available to consumers over by the workers. the counter, said a spokesman from Negotiations between the SIU and the union labels department of the SONAT for the IOT fleet are contin­ AFL-CIO. uing, and dates for talks concerning The AFL-CIO action comes after the Mariner fleet may be set soon. SONAT excluded several categories

Last U.S. T-2 Tanker To Be a Grain Barge The last U.S. T-2 oil tanker built will be converted into a 17,000-dwt Mississippi River hopper grain barge. The tanker Lompoc (Union Oil) in layup three years in Portland, Ore., was sold to American Gulf Shipping of the port of New Orleans and will be towed there. She was built in 1945 at Henry Kaiser's Portland Shipyard and christened the Jordan Valley. Her new name will be the American Gulf V.

Duluth Ends Sailing Season Dec. 20 The port of Duluth, Minn. ended its shipping season on Dec.20, loading a ship with donated bagged wheat and powdered milk cargo forthe Sudan from the Minneapolis Coalition for African Famine Relief. Earlier in the week, five ships were to load grain cargo and another scrap iron in the port. The last Laker to exit the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Locks was on Dec. 26.

More Jobs on James River Towing Mississippi Queen Hit by Tug More jobs for Boatmen in the port of Norfolk with the James River Towing Late last month, the $15.5 million sternwheeler Mississippi Queen (Delta Co. (Curtis Bay) were available this month with the company operating a Queen Steamboat Co.) was in the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans to repair couple of towboats to haul coal barges up to a Richmond, Va. powerplant. a 3-foot by 15-foot gash in her bow after colliding with a tugboat on the Mississippi River near Donaldsonville, La. The Queen's captain beached the steamboat carrying 272 passengers and Crescent Towing Harbor Tugs 159 crew on a sandbar following the Dec. 12 midstream crash at about 5:30 4 p.m. The tug, Crimson Glory (Agri Trans), was undamaged with 25 barges in at Savannah tow. Four Crescent Towing harbor tugs from the port of New Orleans will be Three persons aboard the Queen were treated for minor ailments while one doing docking work in Savannah, Ga. t�is month. of her crewmen was picked up out of the river by a passing tug.

January 1986 I LOG I 5 In Memoriam Legal Aid In the event that any SIU members have legal problems in the various ports, a list of attorneys whom they Pensioner Claude Andrus, 83, passed can consult Is being published. The away on Dec. 5, 1985. Brother Andrus member need not choose the recom­ mended attorneys and this llst Is In­ joined the Union in Port Arthur, Texas tended only for informational pur­ in 1964. He sailed as a tug captain for poses: Slade Towing from 1945 to 1968. Born NEW YORK, NEW YORK in Hayes, La., he was a resident of Schulman & Altman Sulphur, La. Surviving are his widow, 84 William Street, Suite 1501 Clara Emma and a son-in-law, Clifford New York, New York 10038 Kenney. Tele.# (212) 422-7900 BALTIMORE, MD. Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad Sun Life Building Charles & Redwood Streets Baltimore, Md. 21201 Tele. # (301) 539-6967

Pensioner Floyd Lamkin Turner, 77, CHICAGO, ILL. The King's Challenger was in Honolulu in November, refueling for a deepsea run to succumbed to heart failure at home in Katz & Friedman Wake Island .. (Photo by Patrolman Danny Keao) 7 South Dearborn Street l, Hobe Sound, Fla. on Dec. 1985. Chicago, Ill. 60603 Brother Turner joined the Union in Tele.# (312) 263-6330

1943 in the port of Philadelphia. He DETROIT, MICH. sailed as a deckhand and mate for lace and White Crematory, Stuart, 1961 sailing as a cook for the R.K. Victor G. Hanson Taylor and Anderson, the Independ­ Fla. Surviving are two daughters, He­ Davis Transportation Co. from 1946 19268 Grand River Avenue Detroit, Mich. 48822 ent Towing Co. from 1939 to 1940, the lene Blom of Cedarbrook, N.J. and to 1970 and for Allied Towing from Tele.# (313) 532·1220 Sheridan Transportation Co. aboard Joyce Patmore of Philadelphia. 1970 to 1974. He was a veteran of the the tug Ann Sheridan in 1942.He also U.S. Army before World War II. Boat­ GLOUCESTER, MASS. Orlando White sailed as a captain and harbor pilot for & ;t man Parker was born in Hertford, 1 Western Avenue Curtis Bay Towing from 1943 to 1969. Pensioner Lewis Parker, 78, passed N .C. and was a resident of Norfolk. Gloucester, Mass. 01930 Boatman Turner was born in Mary­ away on Oct. 31. Brother Parker joined Surviving is a sister, Ethel Parsons of Tele.# (617) 283-8100 land. Cremation took place in the Wal- the Union in the port of Baltimore in Norfolk. HOUSTON, TEXAS Archer, Peterson and Waldner 1801 Main St. (at Jefferson) Suite 510 Houston, Texas 77002 Tele.# (713) 659-4455 & Tele.# (813) 879·9842 Dispatchers Report for Inland Waters LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Fogel, Rothschild, Feldman & Ostrov 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2600 DEC. 1-31, 1985 *TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED **REGISTERED ON BEACH Los Angeles, Calif. 90036 All Groups All Groups All Groups Tele. # (213) 937-6250 Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Class C WILMINGTON, CALIF. Port DECK DEPARTMENT Fogel, Rothschild, Feldman & Ostrov Gloucester ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 239 South Avalon ... . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 New York ...... Wilmington, Calif. 90744 Philadelphia ...... 13 10 1 1 1 12 3 3 3 Tele.# (213) 834-2546 Baltimore ...... 12 0 1 12 0 0 12 0 1 . 12 ·Norfolk ...... 65 18 0 53 0 68 20 0 MOBILE, ALA. Mobile ...... 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 3 Simon Wood New Orleans ...... 4 4 1 2 0 0 17 7 5 & 1010 Van Antwerp Building Jacksonville ...... 4 3 17 2 0 12 6 6 26 San Francisco ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mobile, Ala. 36602 Wilmington ...... 4 2 14 0 0 0 1 3 10 Tele.# (205) 433-4904 Seattle ...... •.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Puerto Rico ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW ORLEANS, LA. Houston ...... 5 2 0 3 1 0 7 3 0 Gardner, Robein & Healy Algonac ...... 20 8 0 3 2 0 35 20 0 2540 Severn Avenue, Suite 400 . 1 1 2 2 0 11 1 10 St. Louis ...... 3 Metairie, La. 70002 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Piney Point ...... Tele.# (504) 885-9994 Totals ...... 118 41 45 82 17 16 163 64 65 NORFOLK, VA. Port ENGINE DEPARTMENT Peter K. Babalas & Associates, P.C. . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gloucester ...... Suite 700 Atlantic National Bank Bldg. New York ...... •...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 415 Saint Paul's Boulevard Philadelphia ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Va. 23510 Baltimore ...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Norfolk, Norfolk ...... 9 0 0 7 0 0 9 0 0 Tele. # (804) 622-3100 Mobile ...... 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 PHILADELPHIA, PA. New Orleans ...... 2 5 1 1 1 1 3 4 3 Jacksonville ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Kirschner, Walters, Willig, r s ...... 0 San F anci co . . . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Weinberg & Dempsey Suite 110 Wilmington ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1429 Walnut Street 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seattle ...... 0 Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 Puerto Rico ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tele.# (215) 569-8900 Houston ...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 Algonac ...... 10 7 0 2 1 0 33 12 0 ST. LOUIS, MO. St. Louis ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gruenberg, Sounders Levine Piney Point ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 & Suite 905-Chemical Building Totals ...... 24 12 1 11 2 1 48 17 4 721 Olive Street Port STEWARD DEPARTMENT St. Louis, Missouri 63101 Gloucester ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tele.# (314) 231-7440 New York ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Philadelphia ...... 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 Baltimore ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John Paul Jennings Norfolk ...... 12 0 0 7 0 0 10 0 0 Henning, Walsh & Ritchie Mobile ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100 Bush Street, Suite 440 . 12 0 0 1 New Orleans ...... 9 3 7 51 4 San Francisco, Calif. 94104 Jacksonville ...... •. 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 7 9 Tele.# (415) 981-4400 San Francisco ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 2 Wilmington ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SEATTLE, WASH. Seattle ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Davies, Roberts, Reid, Puerto Rico ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Anderson Wacker Houston ...... 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 & Algonac ...... 6 5 0 1 1 0 8 8 0 201 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 500 St. Louis ...... 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 Seattle, Wash. 98119 Piney Point ...... 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Tele. # (206) 285-3610 Totals...... 30 17 13 10 2 8 31 61 14 TAMPA, FLA. Hamilton & Douglas, P. A. Totals All Departments...... 172 70 59 103 21 25 242 142 83 2620 West Kennedy Boulevard • "Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month. Tampa, Florida 33609 Tele. # (813) 879-9842 •• "Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month.

6 I LOG I January 1986 New Pensioners

Charles M. Curtis, He was born in Norwich, N.Y. and is 62,joined the Union a resident of White Marsh, Md. in the port of Jack­ sonville in 1975. He 1 sailed as a cook for Tommy Ray Fillin­ Crowley Marine gim, Sr., 55, joined from 1978 to 1985. the Union in 1947 in Brother Curtis was the port of Mobile. J born in Candler, He sailed in both N.C. and is a resident of Orange Park, the deck and ste­ Fla. ward departments. Brother Fillingim hit Kenneth Alfred - the bricks in the 1946 Davis, 60, joined the General Maritime beef. He was born Union in the port of in Alabama and is a resident of Chick­ Norfolk SIU Rep Mike "M.P." Paladino (left) presents a first pension check of $1,000 to Philadelphia in 1960. asaw, Ala. Chief Engineer William "Bill" Edward Diggs, 63, who sailed for the Virginia Pilots Assn. He sailed as a mate, from 1952 to 1985. Brother Diggs joined the Union in 1966 and was a former member of captain and chief en­ MEBA, District 2. gineer for Gellethin Towing from 1950 to John Quiney Joyner, 79, joined the 1956 and rode the Union in the port of Norfolk in 1982 Christine E. (Marine Towing) from sailing as an AB and captain. Brother 1968 to 1977. Brother Davis began Joyner was born in the Isle of Wight sailing in 1946. He is a veteran of the Cty., Va. and is a resident of Hamp­ U.S. Navy during World War II. Boat­ ton, Va. man Davis was born in Showell, Md. and is a resident of Berlin, Md. Marble Ely Nel­ son, 62, joined the Floyd Frederick Deiss Sr., 61, joined Union in 194 1 in the the Union in the port of Baltimore in port of Mobile sail­ 1956. He sailed as a deckhand and ing as a captain. captain for the Curtis Bay Towing Co. Brother Nelson was in 1972. Brother Deiss is a veteran of born in Mobile and the U.S. Navy dur ng World War II. is a resident there. �

...... ___ .___ In the galley of the Calrice Transport are (I. to r.) Gentry Moore, SIU patrolman; Kaj SAFETY ON THE JOB Kristensen, SUP patrolman, and Stephen Akens, cook/steward.

Ca/rice in S. F.

These photos of the Catrice Trans­ port were taken on a recent stopover in San Francisco Bay. The vessel has a crew of 19; the two men in the steward department, however, are the only SIU members. Now in layup in Puerto Rico, the Catrice Transport usually carries cargoes of rice and grain-sometimes sailing to Africa; most recently returning from the Phil­ ippine Islands.

Russell Hawkins, steward utility The Calrice Transport, docked in San Francisco Bay.

January 1986 I LOG I 7 ister for their jobs by writing the Vice Presidents' steamship company and by keeping the SIU hall posted as to where they around a fairly sound high-tech and Overall, shipping remains fair on can be located. service economy, has been making the West Coast.Things, however, are gains in recent months against its com­ booming in Hawaii. The jobs gener­ petitors on the East and West coasts. ated by the two passenger vessels that The other, the traditional pillars of the this Union helped get redocumented midwest region-agriculture and man­ and the military transportation vessels ufacturing-unfortunately have not re­ that we have signed up have re lly gained their former strength. improved the shipping picture out there.; President Drozak has made the adoption of a national industrial policy That's it for this month. As they Gulf Coast one of this nation's top goals. Such a say in Hawaii, Hauoli Makahiki Hou. by V.P. Joe Sacco policy would go a long way in curing Happy New Year. the ills that presently plague this re­ eafarers in the Gulf Region are gion. waiting for District Court Judge S The state of the maritime industry Morey Sears to hand down a decision on the Great Lakes is tied to grain and on the sale of 14 National Marine tugs East Coast steel, both of which declined last year. V.P. to Compass Marine Propulsion. by Leon Hall As reported in last month's column, The sale of these tugs is nothing the General Accounting Office (GAO) more than a sham to break the SIU estimates that only 2.8 percent of all contract.As a result of this sale, more t was a busy Christmas and an even cargo carried on the Great Lakes is than 150 SIU Boatmen have lost their busier New Year's up and down the hauled by American-flag vessels. The I jobs. East Coast. Canadian maritime industry, which has I am, however, extremely hopeful On Dec. 27, fishermen in New Bed­ received substantially more support that the decision will be favorable. I ford braved freezing weather by call­ than its American counterpart, rides firmly believe that 1986 can be a good ing a strike against fishingboat owners high in this region. year for seamen in this region, but who had hoped to cut their wages by Still, the antiquated state of the St. only if we get a few decent breaks. as much as 25 percent (see story page Lawrence Seaway poses a problem Meanwhile, we keep plugging along. 1). for both the American and Canadian Our representatives are making sure Government Services In Philadelphia, negotiations were economies in the region. The SIU has V.P. that every piece of equipment gets by Buck Merce� continuing between the SIU and consistently supported attempts to serviced properly, which is difficult in SONAT Marine over the IOT contract modernize the Great Lakes ports, in­ the inland field since there often is no he Circular A-76 Program has now which expired in August 1984. Both cluding this year's port development fixed position for a tug or barge. come full circle with the 12 ocean­ the Union and the company also have plan, and such comprehensive ap­ T There is talk of reviving the U.S. ographic MSC ships being awarded to tentatively agreed to resume Mariner proaches as the "Stange land Plan," passenger vessel industry in the Gulf Lavino Shipping Co. of Philadelphia, negotiations. which was developed several years area. That is why we are keeping track Pa., which will operate them for the Meanwhile, in Washington, the SIU ago by Rep. Arlan Stangeland (R­ of the tax reform bill, which in its next three years. Three of the ships, was able to persuade the AFL-CIO to Minn .), who sought to "winterize" original form would have ended tax the USNS Chauvenet, USNS Silas place SONAT Marine on its "Unfair Great Lakes ports. deductions for conventions held on­ Bent and USNS DeSteiger, are from List" for the high-handed way that board American-flag passenger ves­ MSCPAC while nine are from the the company has treated its employ­ sels.(See page 25.) Atlantic Command. ees, most specifically for its unilateral In addition, we are opposed to at­ Reduction in force procedures are reclassification of captains, mates and tempts on the part of the mayor of expected to follow immediately in the barge captains as "supervisors." New Orleans to use foreign-flag ves­ Atlantic area though not in the Shipping has been fair or worse in sels in that city's much touted "Cruise MSCPAC command. Marine employ­ most East Coast ports, with the ex­ to Nowhere" scheme. ees who are temporarily hired are ception of Norfolk, which has gar­ The economy of the Gulf region has expected to be laid-off in order to nered a large share of the military been down recently as a result of a bring down the marine manpower ceil­ vessels that are being contracted out decline in oil prices.And talking about mg. by the Navy. oil, the SIU supports the AFL-CIO's Lavino was able to take over this These vessels are assuming an in­ campaign against Shell Oil for its treat­ contract in large part because of the creasingly important role in the job ment of black workers in South Africa. efforts of the SIU, who went to court security of this membership. The AFL-CIO is urging all Union to make sure that the provisions of Two years ago, the LOG carried a members who have Shell Oil credit West Coast the Service Contract Act applied.The story about the American Eagle, which V.P. cards to return them to the company. by George McCartney bottom line is that SIU members in provided sealift support during the One more thing: I urge all Seafarers the MSC fleetwill have a shot at more American invasion of Grenada. At that to make use of the facilities at Piney ineteen eighty-six promises to be jobs and better wages. time, 10 percent of all SIU jobs were Point to upgrade their skills. I believe Na busy year for the SIU. La vino Shipping Co.bid $2.2 million generated by these military vessels. that education is the key to thisUnion's more than the Marine Transport Line. That figure has since risen to 30 per­ future. Seafarers in the port of Seattle are The USNS Chauvenet is enroute to cent. Within the next few years, it is gearing up for a grassroots campaign. Japan where it will undergo a yard estimated that half of all jobs available Later in the year, there will be impor­ period. The USNS Silas Bent is in the to SIU members will be onboard these tant local elections, especially in King shipyard in Subic Bay, P.1., and the vessels. County, Wash. USNS DeSteiger is also in a yard in The Seafarers Harry Lundeberg Tacoma, Wash. School of Seamanship in Piney Point, We plan to continue our emphasis Other MSCP AC ships scheduled to Md. has played an important role in on training and education. Just this be contracted-out under the Circular helping the SIU gain these jobs.It has past month, we trained 17 more AB's A-76 Program include the USNS Ob­ constantly revised its curriculum to in the port of Seattle. servation Island, four tug boats: USNS keep up with rapidly expanding fields. Labor solidarity will continue to be Sioux, Catawba, Narragansett and Meanwhile, in the corporate board­ emphasized. A number of local strikes Navajo , as well as the Myer, Mizar, rooms of New York, Sea-Land, one Neptune Zeus. that we were supporting through the and of this country's most progressive and California state federation were suc­ With an additional nine ships from profitable shipping lines, was trying to cessfully completed. MSCP AC scheduled to go on the bid avert an unfriendly takeover. Great Lakes block, it is natural to assume that a Numerous unions have joined with by V.P. Mike Sacco In Seattle, we are trying to get group reduction in force will take place the SIU to oppose any takeover of rates for members who want to attend sometime near the end of 1986. This Sea-Land, including the International the 1986 World's Fair in nearby Van­ will affect about 350 non-officer mar­ Longshoremen's and Warehouse­ he Great Lakes are quiet now, as couver. And we are meeting with the iners. men's Union, the InternationalBroth­ Tthey always are around this time management at American Hawaii As these events take place and as erhood of Teamsters, the Masters, of year. Cruises to get vacation discounts for MSCPAC mariners are terminated from Mates & Pilots, the International There seem to be two midwest re­ our members who work onboard the their employment, they should follow Longshoremen's Association, and even gions evolving. One, which centers SS Constitution and Independence. reduction in force procedures and reg- AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland.

8 I LOG I January 1986 The United States Army Trains Crane Instructors at SHLSS

The U.S. Army Transportation School at Fort Eustis, Virginia sent nine instructors to a one-week Crane Instructor's Course held at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship (SHLSS). The Lundeberg School is the only Maritime Institution offering Crane Instructor Training along with seven other courses which involve tr arnrng relevant to Military Contracted Vessels and Personnel. The Army has the responsibility fo r military operations on board the T-AKR Military cargo comes in all shapes and sizes. SHLSS has examples of most of it to train with. Ships, which are the SL-7 conversion. All of these ships are equipped with Hagglund Cranes . The Army group received the training to prepare them for conducting their own courses when their Hagglund Crane is operational at Fort Eustis . Until that time SHLSS will work jointly Crane operation requires a lot of with the Army to provide training team work. MSG Phillip Lee in this very important program. discusses the next lift.

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f SGT Gale Vestal has a clear view of the cargo and vessel from the cab of the Hagglund crane.

Instructor Ed Boyer prepares a container for a lift.

Army Training Group

First row (I. to r.) Instructor Harry Alongi, Trainee Joseph Martyn, SGT Jeffrey L. Weakland, SSG Kermit D. Jones, SSG Gale A. Vestal, SFC Jessie Simon. Second row (I. to r.) SSG Robin Shackelford, MSG Phillip A. Lee, SSG Santiago Jose, Trainee Kevin Luck, Upgrader Martin Fox, SFC McArthur Brown. The USNS ALGOL is one of the Navy's converted SL-7's.

January 1986 I LOG I 9 Fireman/Watertender, Oiler Course To be Offered in March and September

The course of instruction Guard General Safety, Oiler and Watertender, Oiler course. leading to endorsement as Fireman /Watertender tests. All applicants for endorsement Fireman /Watertender, Oiler con­ The eligibility requirements are as fireman/watertender and oiler sists of classroom instruction and as follows : must have discharges showing six practical training. Topics covered All applicants for FOWT must months seatime as wiper. Any in the course include the parts of a have normal color vision. graduate of the Seafarers Harry boiler, engine room equipment, All applicants for FOWT must Lundeberg School entry rating fire fighting, safety procedures, have 20I 100 vision in both eyes program at Piney Point can engine room procedures, corrected to 20 I 30 in one eye and qualify afterthree months seatime operating auxiliary equipment, 20 I 50 in the other eye. as wiper. watchstanding, and starting and All applicants must pass a U.S.

securing main engines . This Coast Guard approved physical The length of the course 1S course prepares you for Coast before entering the Fireman / eight weeks.

Wayne Kinsey installs a camshaft in a four cylinder diesel block.

Instructor Bill Foley describes the assembly of a boiler gage glass. L. to r.: Bookwork is a large part of the FOWT course. Instructor Bill Foley, Wayne Kinsey, Crescencio Suazo, Charles Spielmann and Edwards Brooks.

SHLSS COURSE GRADUATES

Cook and Baker Steward Recertification L. to r. Gary Havrilla (Instructor), Michael Davalie, Henry First row (I. to r.): Revels A. Poovey, S.L. Amper, E.L. Edwards, Gregory Linkous, Daryl Dani, Veronika Cardenas, Charles Gooch, Liz Showbrooks (Instructor), not pictured: Johnson. Second row (I. to r.): Tobe Dansley Jr., Herlies Marine Electronics Evans, Joe Miller, C.F. Gardenhire. Th ird row (I. to r.): Manuel Basas. L. to r. Alan Hansen, Ron Klllas, Jeff Kinsman, Cardel Dunn. Alexander Reyer, Robert M. Kennedy, Virge Dixon, G. Sivley.

..lfi /@;; ru�lt-..11: QMED!:'1 ;; �11 Haywood Butler, Thomas Clark, Patrick Coppola, Martin Able Seamen Fox, David Hamilton, John Gener, Giiman Wiikins, First row (I. to r.): James Brady, Reggie R. Green, Larry Lee, DlenlEngine Woodrow Hesllp, Reginald Hood, Michael Hurst, Worcester Mercer V. Watkins, Robert Jones. Secondrow (I. to r.): John First row (I. to r.): Clay P. Mitchell, G. Vides, Joe Scuterl, Johnson Gregorio Madera, Joseph Mlspagel, Wayne !.. Hughes, James Petersen, Tiiiman Churchman, T. R. Benak, Mark Wiiiiamson, Laureano Perez, John Blegalskl. Second Molter, l"'aul Olson, Santos Pastorlza, Laureano Perez, Louis Uleskl. Third row (I. to r.): Jim Brown (Instructor), row (I. to r.): Chuck Jameson, Chris Benzenberg, Corbin Corbin Piper, Joe Pomranlng, David Simmons, Harmando Timothy G. Ward Sr., Rick Bumstead, Peter Victor, Daniel Piper, James McGlnty, Edgar A. Nattlel Ill, Eric Malzkuhn Salazer, Toney Smith, Cleveland Taylor, Wiley Yarber, Ticer. Not pictured: Phil Knowls. (Instructor), John Walsh, CeifJ. Williams. Joannis Hatziyiannis.

10 I LOG I January 1986 1986 UPGRADING COU RSE SCHEDULE Programs Geared to Improve Job Skills and Promote the U.S. Maritime Industry

The following is the current course schedule forthe 1986 school year at the Seafarers Harry Lundebers School of Seamanship. Deck Upgrading Courses For the membership 's convemence, the course schedule is separated Check-In Completion into six categories: deck department courses ; engine department Course Date Date courses; steward department courses; adult education courses; all department courses and recertification programs. License Mate (Third Unlimited • January 31 Apri l 11 Master Mate Freight Towing) August October Inland Boatmen and deep sea Seafarers who are preparing to upgrade & 1 10 are advised to enroll for class as early as possible. Although every effort Celestial Navigation April 11 May 16 will be made to fill the requests of the members, the classes are limited October 10 November 14 in size - so sign up early. Towboat Operator Scholarship May 23 July 18 The course schedule may change to reflectthe membership's needs. A three month updated course schedule will be included in every issue of Lifeboat February 24 March 7 March 21 April 3 the LOG. May 16 May 30 SIU Representatives in all ports will assist members in filling out the July 11 July 25 application. August 8 August 22 October 10 October 23 Engine Upgrading Courses October 31 November 14 Check-In Completion Able Seaman April 4 May Course Date Date 30 July 25 September 19 QMED ·Any Rating September 19 December 11 October 24 December 19 Third Assistant Engineer January 24 Apri l 11 Radar Observer January 10 January 24 February 17 February 28 Automation May 23 June 19 May 16 May 30 Marine Electrical Maintenance February 14 Apri l 10 July 18 July 31 August 22 October 30 November 14 November 28 Marine Electronics (LASH Crane) October 31 December 12 Simulator May 2 May 16 July 18 August 1 Hagglund Crane Maintenance Janua� 3 February 14 November 14 November 28 Apri l 2 June 6 Tankerman April 18 May 2 Refrigeration Systems Maintenance January 10 February 21 July 11 July 25 & Operations August 15 September 26 October 3 October 17 Refrigerated Containers Advanced February 21 April 4 Radar Observer (Renewal) March 7 March 14 Maintenance September 26 November 7 Apri l 4 Apri l 11 June 6 June 13 Diesel Engineer - Regular Apri l May 4 16 August 8 August 15 November 7 December 19 September 5 September 12 Diesel Scholarship April 4 June 13 November 7 November 14 December 5 December 12 Welding February 21 March 20 June 27 July 24 Adult Education Courses November 7 December 5 Check-In Completion Hydraulics July 25 August 21 Course Date Date Fireman/Watertender & Oiler March 21 May 16 For students who wish to apply for the GED, ESL, or ABE classes for September 12 November 6 next year, the courses will be six weeks in length and offered at these times: Conveyormen January 24 February 20 January 24 March 8 May 2 June 14 Steward Upgrading Courses August 1 September 13 Check-In Completion October 31 December 13 Course Date Date Seafarers who are applying for the upgraders Lifeboat classes and who Chief Cook January March 8 14 are either ESL or may need some work on basic skills, may take the March June 19 27 ESUABE Lifeboat course three weeks prior to the scheduled Lifeboat June October 25 3 class. These classes will be offered: October 1 Jan. 9, 1987 February 28 March 21 Cook & Baker January 29 May 9 June 27 July 18 March 19 June 27 September 19 October 10 May 7 August 15 June 25 October 3 The Developmental Studies Class (DVS) will be offered one week prior August 13 November 21 to some of the upgrading classes. They will be offered as follows: October 1 Jan. 9, 1987 Third Engineer November 19 Feb. 27, 1987 January 17 January 24 Conveyorman January 17 January 24 Chief Steward March 19 June 27 FOWT March 14 March 21 June 25 October 3 Diesel Regular March 28 Apri l 4 October 1 Jan. 9, 1987 Able-Bodied Seaman March 28 April 4 Recertification Programs Towboat Operator Scholarship May 16 May 23 Automation May 16 May 23 Check-In Completion Able-Bodied Seaman July 18 July 25 Course Date Date Hydraulics July 18 July 25 Steward Recertification Apri l 28 June 2 QMED September 12 September 19 November 3 December 8 Able-Bodied Seaman October 17 October 24 Bosun Recertification March 3 April 7 September 2 October 6

All Rating Upgrading Courses --- Important Notice -­ Check-In Completion Course Date Date Hotel Bill Payment Policy Changed Sealift Operations and January 10 February 7 Maintenance February 7 March 7 March 7 April 4 Effective January 1, 1986 all upgrader' s dependents staying at May 2 May 30 June 6 July 3 the Seafarers Training and Recreation Center at Piney Point will July 25 August 22 be required to pay their bill bi-monthly. This will help to lessen September 5 October 3 the burden of the cost of your stay. October 17 November 14 November 14 December 12

January 1986 I LOG I 11 Apply Now for an SH LSS Upgrading Course

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Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Upgrading Application

Name Date of Birth (Lisi) (lirsl) (Middle)

Telephone - �-��-----­ (City) (State) (ZipCode} (Area Code)

Deep Sea Member 0 Inland Waters Member 0 Lakes Member 0 Pac ific :.!

Social Security # ______Book # ______Sen iority ______Department ______

Date Book Port Presently

______Was lssued Port lssued Reglstered ln _____

Endorsement(s) or

_ Llcense(s) Now Held ______

Are you a graduate of the SHLSS Trainee Program : 0 Yes No 0 (If yes, fill In below)

_ __ Trainee Program: From ____ _� � to,...,,...,,..,....,...__ __ (dales attended)

Have you attended any SHLSS Upgrad ing Courses: 0 Yes N o � (If yes, fill in below)

_ Course(s) Taken ______

Do you hold a letter of comp let on for Lifeboat: D Yes No C Firefighting: :J Yes No 0 CPR: lJ Yes No

Date Available for Training ------

Primary Language Spoken ------

I Am Interested in the Following Course(s) Checked Below or Ind icated Here if Not Listed

DECK ENGINE STEWARD

T1nk1rm1n � FOWT L A11l1t1nl Cook AB Unllmll1d L. QM ED -Any R1tlng :J _ Cook Biker 'J AB Limited .-- Minne Ele tronic & c s _ Chief Cook ' AB Specl1I [" M1rlne Electrlc1I M1lnlenence :::::: Slew1rd Towbo1t Operator lnl1nd lJ Pumproom M1lnlen1nce & Operetlon [' _ Towbo11 lnl1nd Cook Aulomellon U Towboat Operator Nol More D Refrigeration Syalema Then 200 MllH i... Melnlenance u Towbo1t Operator (Over 200 MllH) &. Operations ..._ e I ADULT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LJ Cele1t11I N111lg1llon Ol 11 EnglnH Muter ln1pected Towing Ve11el A11l1l1n1 Engineer (Unlnapected C :::J Adult Buie Educellon (ABE) Motor Ve11el) C Mete ln1pecled Towing Ve11el High School Equlvelency � C e Engineer (Unlnspected :. 1st Cl111 Piiot hi r Third Mite Cele1tl1I N1vlg1tlon Motor V1111I Program (GEO) :: Third Asst. Engineer (Motor Inspected) il Third Mite Developmentel Studies ::: R1d1r Observer Unllmlted ' Relrlgereled Conl1lner1 English 11 1 Second Langu1ge (ESL) S mul1tor Course Ad111nced M1lntenence :J l ABE/ESL Lifeboat Preper1tlon [ Se1llft Operations & M1lnten1nce - M1rlne Electronics (LASH Crane) • Hydraulics

� Hagglund Cr1ne M1lntenance will No transportation be paid ALL DEPARTMENTS unless you present original receipts and successfully L Welding complete the course. Llleboetm1n S.1llfl Oper1llon1 & M1lnlen1nce

RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT TIME-(Show only amount needed to upgrade in rating noted above or attach letter of service, whichever is applicable.) VESSEL RATI NG HELD DATE SHIPPED DATE OF DISCHARGE

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12 I LOG I January 1986 Rover Saves 63 Refugees From Certain Death

Ten years after the fall of Saigon, ten about the courage and persever· thousands of Vietnamese are willing ance of the hundreds of thousands of to risk everything, even death, for Vietnamese refugees who fled their freedom. And American seamen are tragic homeland to become productive still rescuing them. citizens of the United States. Yet few The latest chapter in this continuing Americans know that these people saga was written on Dec. 13, 1985, in could not have made it to these shores the South China Sea, when the M. V. without the help of American seamen Rover picked up 63 Vietnamese refu­ and vessels. gees. The Rover is manned by Seafar­ The first wave of Vietnamese refu­ ers employed in the Government Serv­ gees came in the wake of the Com­ ices Division. munist takeover in 1975. They were, The refugees, who were crammed for the most part, carried on MSC into one small fishing boat, had made vessels which are manned by civilian their way past pirates and through mariners. turbulent seas. The crewmembers were Those first refugees were part of a moved by their heroism and did every­ makeshift freedom flotilla. Privately thing they could to help them. owned American-flag and MSC ves� "The crew donated clothing and (Continued on Page 15.) money to the refugees," wrote Business Agent Melvin Henline. "The cook and the steward worked many extra hours to prepare food for these tired and

This Vietnamese refugee gives a big smile for joy as he realizes that he is about to be hungry people. In fact, the whole ship rescued by the MIV Rover, which is crewed by Seafarers in the Government Services did everything possible to help them." Division. Below (right), a rescued woman hugs her child. Numerous articles have been writ-

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Starting with this issue, all news have been lost; little relief is in sight. including the impressive training fa­ pertaining to the Government Services The problems facing the American cilities at the Seafarers Harry Lun­ Division of the Seafarers International maritime industry are not confined to deberg School of Seamanship, this Union of North America will be car­ any one segment or region, bu.t extend Union's politicalconnections in Wash­ ried in the LOG. to all areas: Great Lakes, inland, fish­ ington, and the Union newspaper. "I believe that it is important for ing, government, deep sea, shipbuild­ "The LOG is an award winning this Union to speak with one voice," ing and maritime related industries publication," said Drozak. "Not only said SIU President Frank Drozak. "It such as wire and rope. "The only way does it accurately reflect the needs of is also important for everyone con­ to deal with the problems facing the this membership, but it is read by the nected with the SIU to have an un­ American maritime industry,'' said SIU politicians and government officials derstanding of the full scope of the President Drozak, "is through a com­ who establish a maritime policy that Union's activities." prehensive national policy." will affect the job security of all sea- "In a sense," said SIU Vice Presi­ While the Military Sealift Command men.'' dent Buck Mercer, "this completes has fared pretty well over the past few the 1981 merger between the old Mil­ years because of a massive defense itary Sea Transport Union and the build-up, a number of developments Seafarers International Union of North have occurred that need to be ad­ SIU Contests MSC Decision America." dressed. The 1981 merger, which was over­ The Gramm-Rudman bill that was whelmingly approved by both mem­ recently signed into law may mandate To End Free Medical Care berships, was undertaken to promote severe cuts in the Pentagon budget, the important but often elusive goal of especially in funding for the Military The Seafarers International Union it alleges can recover their costs under maritime unity. "The great tragedy of Sealift Command. is contesting the decision of the MSC the Civil Service Health Plans. the maritime industry,'' said SIU Pres­ At the very least, enactment of to end free medical care for civilian The MSC bases its decision on the ident Frank Drozak, "is that ship own­ Gramm-Rudman will probably accel­ mariners employed in its fleet. closing of the Public Health Service ers and the federal government have erate the process of chartering out ''The Union has directed a letter to hospitals in August 1981. "We don't been able to play one maritime union Navy work to the private sector. The the commander of the military fleet think that argument is valid," said against another." decision by the Military Sealift Com­ requesting that the MSC provide its Mercer, "especially since there has The decision to incorporate the sep­ mand to go down this road presents marine employees with free medical been a five-year periodthat has elapsed arate Government Services Division opportunities as well as potential pit­ care in overseas and/or foreign ports," since the closing of the USPHS hos� paper into the LOG comes at a pivotal falls for the members of this' Union. said SIU Vice President Buck Mercer. pitals." time for civilian mariners employed in As reported by Vice President Buck "This is in tune with the MSC's ob­ the Military Sealift Command and in Mercer in his monthly report, it gives ligation as a shipowner and/or char­ The SIU is particularly concerned the history of the American maritime the civilian mariners represented by terer and in accordance with prevailing about medical care in foreign ports. industry. It also underscores the suc­ this Union the chance to pick up some maritime practice." "In foreign ports," wrote Mercer in cess of the 1981 merger, and the prom­ extra work, such as the 12 oceano­ Earlier this year the MSC decreed the November 1985 issue of the Sea­ ise that it holds for the future. graphic vessels covered under circular that non�occupational related injuries, farer, "where medical or dental atten� The American-flag merchant marine A-76. illnesses or dental care. will no longer tion is often times badly needed, we has been reduced by more than one­ Obtaining this work involves mak­ be paid for by the MSC, but will be believe that the law of the seaman third since 1980. Thousands of jobs ing full use of this Union's resources, charged to individual mariners whom should prevail."

January 1986 I LOG I 1.3 USN� Bol'a,���'2fcJ��etires From Active MSC Duty After 18 years of faithful service to Chief Electrician Bill Brewer, a her country, the USNS Meteor has World War II Navy veteran, has sailed been retired fromactive service and is with MSCPAC for 23 years. Up until now part of the Ready Reserve Force Meteor's entry into the RRF in Oc­ (RRF) berthed in San Pedro, Calif. tober, Brewer had s�rved aboard the The RO/RO vessel spent much of ship since 1970. Like many others, 1985 in West Coast shipyards prepar­ Brewer hated to see the ship laid up. ing for her entry into the Ready Re­ "It's sad to say goodbye to her after serve Force. RRF ships must meet all these years," said the veteran elec­ certain requirements of the American trician. "It's like saying goodbye to Bureau of Shipping and the Coast an old friend." Guard beforeacceptance into the fleet. Brewer recalls the support Meteor First launched in 1965 by Lockheed provided to her customers with pride. Shipbuilding and Construction Com­ "Up until this year," he said, "the pany of Seattle, Meteor (initially named ship never missed a commitment. I USNS Sea Lift) formally began her think that's a damn fine record the service with MSC in 1967 . At the time. Meteor crew can be proud of. " she was one of the few new ships built The roll call of exercises the ship exclusively for the MSC. participated in reads like a military Designed expressly for the trans­ campaign history. There were the RE­ Captain Frank Ballard, the Meteor's last MSCPAC master, is flanked by Chief Electrician portation of vehicular cargo, the in­ FORGER (Return of Forces to Ger­ Bill Brewer and Bosun Marty Collins. Both have been strong SIU men for years. terior of the 21,700-ton ship resembles many) voyages to Europe ; the TEAM the interior of a municipal garage. SPIRIT loadouts for Korea; BEAR "Meteor is a good, strong, solid the ship go ," said Ballard when he Ramps connect the ship's five decks, HUNT exercises with the Marines in ship and I've been blessed by having was told of the comments made by allowing for fast and convenient ve­ the Far East; OPPORTUNE JOUR­ a competent crew that's gotten the job other Meteor crewmembers. "Those hicle movement throughout the ship. NEY shuttles between the islands of done. The shoreside support from words speak well for Meteor and the Vehicles are able to board or be dis­ Hawaii, and many, many more . Me­ MSCPAC was outstanding. The ship organization she worked for." charged from the ship by means of a teor also was one of the seven original always got what it needed. And there stern ramp, side port doors, or by vessels assigned to the Near Term was always good cooperation with our As a part of the RRF, Meteor re­ traditional cargo handling gear such Prepositioning Force in the Indian military customers. We always tried ceives regular maintenance by the as booms and winches. Ocean as part of the Rapid Deploy­ to provide them with the same coop­ Maritime Administration. The former In her heyday, the ship traveled ment Force. eration. MSCPAC ship is capable of being throughout the world. never staying "The ship was very versatile and "In a way, I'm sort of pleased to activated for sealift operations within in one port too long. Meteor's constant served a multi-purpose," said Third hear people say they're sorry to see five to 10 days. movement created a kind of nervous Mate Greg Musk, who served on Me­ energy and excitement of its own, teor the past two years. "With her qualities that endeared her to MSCPAC relatively shallow draft , she could nav­ mariners. igate rivers where larger ships are "I guess I liked this ship better than unable to go. Meteor is really what MSC Touts New Safety Program any other I've sailed because there rapid deployment is all about." were always new things happening and The ship's last MSCPAC master, everyone on the ship from the master new places to see." said Bosun Marty Capt. Frank Ballard , served aboard Te rrorist Activities on down to understand the new pro­ Collins, who served eight of his 43 Meteor her final two years with the gram and be aware of the importance civil service sailing years aboard Me­ command. The vessel is the only On the Rise of security onboard ships." teor. MSCPAC ship he's sailed on since his The MSC admits that the program Sixteen bystanders, including the "With her rigs and booms and other employment with MSC. has met some resistance, especially I I-year-old daughter of an American cargo gear, there was a lot of seaman· s "Man for man, the crew on Meteor since many people don't believe that correspondent, were killed as terror­ they are at risk, or because they find work to do on the ship," said Collins. has been as good if not better than ists simultaneously attacked airports any I've sailed with," said Capt. Bal­ they are already overworked. "We worked hard but we had a lot of in Vienna and Rome. The incidents lard , who's spent most of his career ''Trying to convince the ships they good times, too. The ship seemed to occurred at the end of a year that saw attract good people." aboard commercial ships." need to do more about security may a dramatic rise in the number of ter­ be (our) biggest challenge," read the rorist related incidents in WesternEu­ pamphlet. "MSC ships do not have rope and America. sufficient personnel to fully execute The incidents raised important and U.S. Navy standards for fire, rescue, troubling questions forAmerican sea­ assistance or physical security bills. " men, especially those who work on­ Yet maritime vessels are an attrac­ board vessels that provide strategic tive target to pirates and terrorists. sealift support forAmerican naval ves­ The International Maritime Bureau in sels. As a recent circular issued by London reported in October of last the Military Sealift Command (MSC) year there were 30 reported cases of stated, what's the state of your ship's piracy and armed robbery against mer­ physical security? chant ships worldwide in 1984. There The MSC has issued new and more were 28 such cases in the first half of detailed instructions on safety meas­ 1985 alone. ures that should be followed in order Most of the reported attacks are to deter acts of violence against MSC taking place clo�e to West Africa, chartered ships and USNS civilian Singapore and the Straits of Malacca. manned and contracted ships. It has also designated LCDR Werner Beier to head a special ship security pro­ gram . The program, contained in COMSC Instruction 5530.3, was issued July 25, Alertness Is 1985. It was conceived to be both flexible and comprehensive. Accord­ ing to a flyerput together by the MSC, The Key to the program "is responsive to chang­ Employees of MSCPAC, NSC Oakland and the Oakland Army Base toured the USNS ing threats, whether such threats in­ Regulus in October during a specialone-day open housefo r the three commands. MSCPAC volve terrorism, piracy or barricaded Vessel Safe ty personnel from the transportation office served tour guides to 350 people who went as captor or hostage situations. aboard the 946-foot ship berthed at NSC Oakland. Regulus is the fifth of eight former ''The key to ship physical security,'' SL-7 ships that now compose MSC's Fast Sealift Ship program. (Photo by Maricela Sandoval, MSCPAC) states the flyer,"is alertness. We want

14 I LOG I January 1986 Rescue at Sea

Sixty-three refugees crammed into one small boat to gain their freedom.

The turbulent seas rocked the small fishing boat.

(Continued from Page 13.) sels give this county the sealift capa­ bility to make possible such large-scale humanitarian rescues. One of the crewmembers onboard the Rover performed an extra special deed: he took pictures of the rescue, from the first spottingof the vessel to the outfittingof the refugees in clothes The refugees were carried on stretchers to the medical emergency area. The following donated by the crew. crewmembers helped our (I. to r.): Keith Elliot, AB; Maurice Askinazi, second mate; Ron Wolf, AB; Peter Pinksteaon (who is out of view), and Peter Lum, steward. He captures it all with his camera­ the look of pain and joy on the faces of Vietnamese refugees as they realize that their long journey is finaJly over; the concern of the crewmembers as they provide the refugees with food, medical attention and clothing; and the process of assimilation that began from the moment the boat was spotted by American seamen. The boat was barely visible.

Erine Harriss poses with this young Vietnamese refugee as his mother looks on fondly. The crew donated the clothes.

January 1986 I LOG I15 Getting to Diego Garcia Can Be Half of the Fun Around the MSC Fleet

USNS MISPILLION-Mr. Minix and USNS PONCHATOULA-It was re­ myself boarded the USNS Mispillion ported that while the ship was at sea by Raleigh G. Minix while the aircraft was being serviced. in Subic Bay, Philippines. No ship and under way on Nov. 14, 1985, a The only thing open was a snack bar. chairman was onboard. Assigned Mel­ seaman was put over the ship's side Raleigh G. Minix, this Union's Fa r A bottle of beer cost $3.50. They had vin Rivers to chairman job. Talked on a stage to sand, prime and paint East Representative, has been as­ hot dogs and snacks at about three with engine department crewmembers rust spots. This type of assignment signed to service the membership in times the price in San Francisco. and they stated no trouble in the engine violates all Navy safety regulations. I Diego Garcia. In this article he traces Our next stop was Yokota Air Base department. must admit the ship's hull and outer the steps that a mariner has to go (Japan). We were allowed to debark Deck also stated no trouble. Stew­ structures look good, but if this must through to reach the place that Ameri­ and had to remain in a holding area ard department had a few beefs. be accomplished by disregarding the can seamen have playfu lly dubbed while the aircraft was being serviced. safetyof a crewmember it is not worth "the Paradise of the Pacific. " (Yes, This stop was not bad because they t. Steam valve on copper in need it. Capt. Michael R. Melton was the they know it's in the Indian Ocean. had a TV area, cafeteria, etc. We were of repair or replacement; master. Capt. Robert A. Farr III re­ They'd just rather be in Subic Bay.) on the ground about an hour-and-a­ 2. Not enough ventilation in galley. lieved Capt. Melton as master of the Getting there, it seems, is half the fu n. half. Hardly any exhaust; Ponchatoula Nov. 29, 1985 . Minix relates that the MSC could Our next stop was Clark Air Base 3. Ovens need calibration; I read the answer to Irvin J. Levy's do a great deal to improve poor flight in the Philippines. At this stop the 4. Deep fat fryer shocks when in grievance and advised him that if he accommodations. Difficult travel con­ passengers were kept in a holding area, operation; desired to press his grievances further ditions are made worse by improper but were allowed to visit the cafeteria 5. Head in room #01-16-2 does not he should contact our office at #350 planning. At one point in his trip, at a time. Ten would go ; when they work. Has not worked in six to Fremont St., San Francisco. because of an administrative fo ul-up returned t 0 more could go. Most of months. on the part of MSC offi cials, Minix the passengers got to visit the cafe­ Crews will be reduced while others had a run-in with immigration offi cials teria. We were in Clark Air Base about will be put on ship leave. About 26 USNS HASSAYA MPA-Brother in the Philippines who "ordered me two hours. men are expected to stay for yard David Sitton is the ship's chairman. to get back on the aircraft and leave Our next stop was the paradise of period. Talked with engineer and was The ship came in very clean and with the country or go to jail. " the Pacific, "Diego Garcia." Flight told that the galley and head would be no beefs. There was a question about · Minix relates this all in good fu n, time-about 29 hours. Most of the worked on in the yard. Crews stated a delayed sailing that the master cleared especially in his conclusion ("The only passengers were so beat and happy to no CMPI forUnion delegate. Went to up. All crewmembers involved will be recreation on this trip was wine, beer get off the cramped aircraft that they the purser and Mr. Blanco did turn paid. Brother Sitton took some port and liquor. "). Yet he. knows that this said nothing. We were herded into an CMPI in to purser. Mr. Rivers now leave and we did not get a chance to is a problem common to all mariners airport holding area where the British has the CMPI. Crews stated they did discuss the trip with him. We did get and has drawn up a list of recommen­ informed us of the do's and don'ts of make good money on the last trip. a chance to talk to Captain Farr and dations to make the trip more pleas­ the island. The British then collected Ship looks rough; needs a lot of chip- his department heads prior to Captain ant. our passports, our shot records were ping and painting that will be done in Farr being relieved by Capt. Meloney. I arrived Oakland, Calif. Interna­ checked, and about an hour later we yard. It is a pleasure to service a ship with tional Airport about 10:00, 18 Nov. were instructed to collect our baggage Captain Thomas is back and the a crew this size that has come in from '85, and checked in at the MAC pas­ which was then checked by the British crew feels better for it. Crewmembers an extended voyage with no beefs. senger counter. There was no MSC customs people and their dogs. Later in the engine department still want PAC representative at the airport to the crewmembers were bussed to the their watch time back and stated it give crewmembers instructions. The boat landing and taken to various ships sure as hell is not fair. Bulletin boards O/S VIVIAN-No beefs on the ship, crewmembers who were joining ships anchored in the bay. All the boats seem to be well posted with messages but the crew wants the chief steward in Diego Garcia were instructed to see were used to fe rry crewmembers to from home port. to vary the menus. Also the crew a Mr. Johnson who I found out later their ships and bring back the ones Will board the Mispillion on her stated they need new mattresses and was a patrolman from the National that were being repatriated. There was return from cleaning tanks. Will let pillows. The Vivian and Alice will pay Maritime Union. no way forme to visit any ships in the you know any troubles that arise. offon Dec. 26. It took about fiveminutes fora Navy port. chief petty officerto check my baggage * * * and check me off on the flight list. I remained in Diego Garcia about cussed this problem with the master 2) Allow the seats to recline; This CPO informed me the airline 12 hours. As the returning crewmem­ sergeant in charge. He informed me 3) Follow the seat assignments on would be Arrow Air Line, boarding at bers were bussed to the air terminal, that the U.S. Navy customs people boarding passes; gate 6 at 12:30 p.m., flight no. 2666, they were lined up and their baggage should have had the passengers fill out 4) Show movies on this long flight; and that I had seat number 30 F, right was checked by British and U.S. Navy customs declaration forms in Diego 5) Have an MSC representative at window, smoking section. After a two personnel. Beforebeing allowed to go Garcia. This is called a pre-customs airport from reporting time until hour and 15 minute wait, we were into the airport holding area, their clearance. If this had been done, the the flight departs; allowed to board the aircraft. The carry-on baggage was checked by U.S. passengers would have been able to 6) Instruct MSC personnel in Diego aircraft was a DC-8 with a seating Navy Customs for liquor and fruit. use the cafeteria, and in the event of Garcia to have passengers fillout capacity of over 200. I must say the One bottle of champagne and two delay due to breakdown, etc., they customs and immigration forms accommodations were less than stand­ oranges were confiscated.The passen­ could have used anything on base. while waiting to board aircraft. ard coach class. The clearance be­ gers were very calm and waited about This also makes clearing customs in This procedure is called pre-cus­ tween most seats was about nineinch es, two-and-a-half hours to board the air­ the U.S. port of entry faster. I re­ tom clearance; and none of the seats would recline. craft . mained at the air terminal until the 7) Continue to check carry-on bag­ As we boarded the aircraft, the flight Our next stop was Clark Air Force flight departed. The Air Force master gage for liquor, etc.; assistants told everyone to disregard Base in the Philippines. Everyone de­ sergeant assisted me in clearing cus­ 8) Management and unions should the seating assignments on the board­ barked the aircraft and was taken to toms/immigration and helped me get check aircraft prior to letting bids ing passes and take any vacant seat. a holding area. This time everyone a room for the balance of the night. on what is standard coach class; This is when the first problem began. was allowed to visit the cafeteria all At 0800 the following morning the 9) Continue to have observers Some of the passengers had made this at once. I was due to terminate the same sergeant met me in the Yokota aboard these flights. flight before and knew which seats flight at Clark Air Base. I was not on Air Terminal and helped me get airline would give them more leg room. Some the manifest nor did MSC PAC give reservations from Narita International

of these passengers reported to the me any orders. The immigration peo­ Airport to Manila in the Philippines. * * * airport early and requested certain ple would not let me land in the Phil­ Arrangements were made for trans­ seat assignments. I heard some flight ippines. They ordered me to get back portation from Yokota to Narita In­ CONCLUSION: assistants tell some passengers, "we on the aircraft and leave the country ternational Airport-about a two-and­ are not going to move every one around or go to jail. After about two hours a-half hour bus ride. Under the conditions these mariners had to travel, they conducted them­ to please you." This was a constant we departed Clark Air Force Base for * * * beef until we arrive in Diego Garcia. Yokota Air Force Base (Japan). selves as ladies and gentlemen. The Recommendations to improve travel Mr. Woorley, the MSC PAC repre­ When we arrived at Yokota Air only recreation on this trip was wine, sentative who made the trip, discussed Force Base we were herded into a conditions on flights to Diego Garcia: beer and liquor. The flight attendants this matter. holding area and no one was allowed 1) Remove some of the seats on the served liquor anytime of the day or Our firststop was Anchorage, Alaska to leave. The passengers were not DC-8 type aircraft to allow more night and gave the passengers as much International Airport. We debarked allowed to use the cafeteria. I dis- leg room; as they could pay for.

16 I LOG I January 1986 I \:/u... r I OCll VI LI Iv IVlllllOI y vi ....,� Hundreds of New Jobs Boost SIU in Face of Shipping Slum�Membership Services Exp and obs! New jobs for SIU members pre-positioned ships which will store John P. Bobo (which can carry 1,400 Drug Rehabilitation Program at the Jon U.S. Armed Forces vessels was heavy equipment, armored vehicles, Army or Marine vehicles and tanks) Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of the name of the game in the year 1985 fuel and other supplies forrapid de­ followedby the Mjr. Stephen W. Pless Seamanship (SHLSS) Piney Point, Md. as the Union countered the ill effects ployment in case of military emer­ in April , the Pfc . Dewayne Williams In October the Union started an of Reaganomics. gency. Converted SL-7s, the fastest in July, the USNS Capella in August, Early Normal Lump Sum Buy-Out The year's job totals were 680 new cargo ships afloat, make up the TAKR the USNS Regulus in September and Pension Program which would end on jobs on 35 military-support ships. Mil­ Sept. 30, 1986. itary-contracted vessels now comprise Back on Aug. I, the Union began a 30 percent of the SIU's manned fleet. new trainee program at the SHLSS By June of this year, the SIU expects for the new military ships' jobs and to be crewing 45 military-support ships the hotel section of our contracted with jobs for 850 Seafarers. cruise vessels. The year also was marked by the On the Strike Front SIU instituting new programs for the On the inland strike front, 1985 was membership. They included a Pre­ notable forthe SIU settling a two-year ferred Provider Hospitals Program, beef with Dixie Carriers in the port of Drug Rehabilitation Program, Pension New Orleans, inking a new, three­ Plan Buy-Out Program and a new year contract on Jan. 29 for Dixie's SHLSS Trainee Program. unlicensed Boatmen. It's retroactive Other highlights of 1985 were the to Dec. 10, 1984. settlement of the two-year Dixie Car­ On April 26, a Baltimore NLRB riers strike, disputes with SONAT Ma­ judge ordered Outreach Marine-a rine and National Marine Service and creation of McAllister Brothers ther� some significant victories in Congress to reinstate 26 fired Boatmen with for the maritime industry. owed back pay. The military jobs were provided by In June the SIU hit the bricks, the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Com­ joining picket lines at airports around mand on their ships designated as the country in support of the striking TACS, TAGOS, TAKR and TAKX AFL-CIO-MTD Airline Pilots Assn. 's fleets. United Airlines pilots and Assn. of The T ACS fleet is composed of 11 Flight Attendants. heavy-lift crane ships, two SIU­ On Dec. 19, the Union and SONAT manned, the Gem State and the Key­ Marine's IOT inland fleet restarted stone State which took part in Under­ The crew of the Cove Liberty (Cove Shipping). contract negotiations which had been way Replenishment (UNREP) Navy stalled since July 1984 over the com- exercises in September-October off the coast of Virginia. or Fast Sealift Ship program. These T AGOS, the 12-ship surveillance ships are stationed around the country

fleet, will cost $41.7 million and run and can be ready to steam, fullyloa ded, . to Sept. 30, 1989. It will provide 144 in a matter of days. jobs. In April the Union crewed the In March, the fleet's SIU-crewed TAGOS USNS Stalwart (Sea Mobil­ flagship, the $200-million USNS Pfc . ity) and the USNS Contender in June. Eugene Obregon came on station with The TAKX program consists of 13 the USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak, 2nd Lt.

Naval officials touring the SHLSS training facility got a close-up view of practice trials in underway replenishment by students enrolled in the Sealift Operations and Maintenance course.

the I st Lt. Baldomero Lopez (Ameri­ pany's reclassifying their captains, can Overseas) in November. Three mates and barge captains as "seagoing more T AKX ships will join the fleet supervisors." in January, February and March 1986. In the same month at year's end , inland contract talks with National Marine Service in the port of New Orleans were taken to the courts for litigation. At both the February MTD Exec­ utive Board meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla. and the October MTD Convention Health & We lfare Plans in Anaheim, Calif. , SIU and MTD Last November the Union began a President Frank Drozak told the or­ Preferred Provider Hospital Program ganization's 8-million members in 44 at the Virginia Mason Medical Center national unions that Reagan's policy in the port of Seattle. The hospital has of free trade was crippling the mari­ agreed to provide medical services to ti1ne industry and that he again called Seafarers and their families for a ne­ for a "national policy which will gen­ During a brief hiatus in San Diego, Calif. in April, Earl Nelson Gray Jr., DEU, loaded gotiated reimbursement rate. erate a fair share of cargo forthe U.S. stores onto the Maj. Stephen W. Pless. The Pless is one of four TA KX vessels under military charter crewed by SIU members. On Jan. l, 1986, the SIU opened a merchant marine.''

January 1986 I LOG I 17 A Glimmer of Hope on the Hill Hostilities Force Maritime to Circle Th eir Wagons as Foes Make Heated Charge A month into the new year, it is still issues have even passed one or the too close to call the outcome of 1985's other house in Congress), no final legislative game. If the Congress au­ action has been taken. thorizes an $852 million build and CARGO PREFERENCE charter ship program for which it al­ ready has appropriated the money, The issue of cargo preference sur­ 1985 will be remembered as a good faced in the courts, the halls of Con­ year for the maritime industry. If it gress, the wheat fields and the mari­ doesn't, the year will be yet another time industry. Long a major source of · stalemate. the industry's cargo, and one of the The build and charter program (see few maritime promotional programs

Above, from left, SIU Legislative Director Frank Pecquex, SIU President Frank Drozak Rep. Ed Feighan (D-Ohio) talks to SIU Field Rep. Martain Vittardi (right) and SIU member Mitchen Santana during the Union's fight toprotect cargo preference. and Transportation Institute Legislative Counsel Jim Henry before the Senate convened hearings on cargo preference. story page 3) could be the cornerstone not gutted during the past five years, USDA Secretary John Block and But at the same time, agri-busi­ of new merchant fleetgrowth designed cargo preference came under its heav­ powerful agri-business companies be­ nesses and their allies in Congress to meet both the commercial and mil­ iest attack in years in 1985. gan a high-pressure campaign against began introducing dozens of bills which itary needs of the United States. It is The center of last year's contro­ cargo preference, blaming it for every­ would have stripped cargo preference patterned after the successful Mariner versy was the Department of Agricul­ thing from the trade deficit to the from the nation's laws. Program of the late 1950s. The Navy ture's (USDA) Blended Credit pro­ deaths of starving children. In mid-summer, a large group of would decide which type of vessels to gram. While the USDA claimed the The SIU undertook a large educa­ maritime interests, Jed by the SIU and build, tankers RO/RO's, etc., then program was not subject to cargo pref­ tion campaign on Capitol Hill and a coalition of many farm organiza­ desig_nate the builder and select the erence, the maritime industry said it throughout the nation's farm lands in tions, began meeting to see if some company to lease the ships. All the was.In February, acting on a suit filed an attempt to explain that cargo pref­ kind of compromise could be worked ships would be designed for quick by the Transportation Institute, a fed­ erence was not responsible for the out. Those meetings resulted in a new conversion to military use, and the eral district judge ruled that the pro­ farm crisis. plan that was beneficial to both sides. Navy could sell the ships after five gram was subject to cargo preference. SIU President Frank Drozak made­ The maritime industry would set aside years. The USDA, instead of complying with dozens of appearances before farm its claims to so-called government The program, introduced by Sen. the court's decision, simply decided groups outlining the problems shared commercial cargo (such as Blended Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), was just one to cancel the program and the $500 by both industries; a strong dollar, a Credit) but the percentage of U.S.-ftag small part of the omnibus spending million worth of cargo due to be massive trade deficit and high interest cargo forconcessional programs (such bill passed by both houses and signed shipped. rates. (Continued on Page 19.) by the president in late December. But there have been indications that some powerful CapitolHill leaders may throw a roadblock up and try to stymie the program later this year. Ifyou eliminate the build and charter program from last year's legislative equation, then 1985 becomes another year where the SIU and the maritime industry had to battle to maintain their own turf, and perhaps even gain a little ground. The big issues on the hill last year were once again cargo preference, Alaskan oil, passenger ships and tax reform. These issues were not con­ tained in just one piece of legislation, but in more than 100pieces of maritime legislation introduced. On most of the issues, the SIU was able to persuade Congress that our interests were the interests of the nation. Because Congress is in the middle of a two-year session, many areas of importance to SIU members have not been acted upon. Though legislation Speaker of the House of Representatives "Tip" O'Neill knows better than any leader bow the wind is blowing on Capitol Hill. As a guest designed to help the fishing industry, speaker at the MTD Executive Board meeting, he told delegates that it was time for a new beginning for the nation and for the labor movement. He asked: "Can we work together? It is time to put a premium on results rather than the process; on achieving our common the Great Lakes ports and the inland goals rather than satisfying selfish particular interests." Later, the speaker posed with MTD Executive Secretary Jean lngrao, MTD industry has been introduced (some President Frank Drozak and Steve Leslie, MTD vice president.

18 I LOG I January 1986 Support SPAD

In the week before Congress was to meet for a final vote on the farm bill, Seafarers came as to Wa shington and went door to door on Capitol Hill asking the nation's representatives for their support on the bill. Above, Seafarers found an audience in Brian Folkerts, ington · legislative assistant to Rep. Lynn Martin (R-UI.).

(Continued from previous page) PORT DEVELOPMENT This is another issue which has been as P.L. 480) would jump from 50 to simmering in Congress for several 75 percent during a three-year period. years. Both houses passed different Maritime opponents were making versions, but the SIU was able to help one last large-scale stand in Congress, trim back many of the user fee pro­ where approval of any such deal must visions. come from. In the fall, several bills and amendments were introduced FISHING which would have either eliminated Legislation designed to help ease cargo preference completely or se­ the burden of the high-cost of insur­ verely limited its scope. ance , protection from unfair foreign In response, the SIU gathered more competition and measures to improve than 50 rank-and-file members and safety were introduced but not en­ field representatives and brought them acted. to Washington. Their job was simple, convince enough representatives that No single issue was more important last year than cargo preference. Without having a . their support was needed to block the fair share of government impelled cargoes, American-flag shipping would cease to exist. anti-cargo preference amendments at­ But a farm bill up for a vote in Congress last year proposed to severely limit the application of cargo preference. It was the role of SIU President Frank Drozak to explain to the tached to the new farm bill. After nation's leaders, to reporters, and to people who packed hearing rooms to hear testimony several days of face-to-face lobbying, on the critical need to maintain a strong merchant marine for the nation's defense. their efforts paid off. By a 245-179 vote, the House of Representatives tion granted permission to export a defeated the anti-cargo preference small amount of Alaskan oil from the measures. Cook Inlet area which is not covered When the House and Senate got by the Act. The SIU will be watching together to iron out the differences in that situation carefully this year. their farm bills, the compromise worked out by the SIU and the farm groups TAX REFORM was included in the final version of the bill. It was signed by the president While the tax reform bill covered a iri December. It had been almost a wide variety of questions when it was year-long fight, but the SIU won. originally introduced, it carried sev­ eral provisions which could have been harmful to the maritime industry. Dur­ ALASKANOil. ing the legislative process the SIU was Another Jong-running fight on Cap­ able to make some changes in the bill itol Hill has been the battle over the which protected some important mar­ export of Alaskan oil. The oil from itime issues. the north slope of Alaska is the major Tax deductions forconventions held source of trade for U .S-flag tankers aboard U .S.-flag ships were retained and an important source of energy despite initial objections. The Capital security for the United States. Construction Fund was retained. Some Many attempts have been made dur­ tax loopholes were closed for U.S. ing the past fewyears to lift the export owners of foreign-flag ships. Taxes on ban. Each one has been met and de­ employees' fringe benefits were elim­ feated, but only on a temporary basis, inated. The tax bill passed the House because Congress could not agree on and will be taken up by the Senate the entire Export Administration Act this year. which covers a large range of issues. Last year the maritime industry was PASSENGER SHIPS SIU Legislative Director Frank Pecquex and SIU lobbyist Liz DeMato worked successful in retaining the prohibition closely with a contingent of Seafarers campaigning for cargo preference. Each day against the export of the oil forseven Several bills were introduced which Seafarers gathered for their assignments, then down the marble balls of the Senate years when Congress passed and the would have allowed the re-flagging of and House office buildings wearing their SIU white jackets and everywhere raising president signed the Export Admin­ some foreign-flag, but U.S.-built pas­ questions. In the end, Congress turned down the anti-cargo preference amendments. Because human faces speak louder to issues than to statistics on paper, perhaps istration Act. senger ships back into the domestic more than anything this explains why the SIU was successful in this campaign, and On the other hand, the administra- trade. None was enacted. why the legislative year belongs to the SIU membership.

January 1986 I LOG I19 Heroes, Volunteers and Exploding Boatman Seafarers Mark Year With Sacrifice, Dedication and For many in our Union, 1985 was a Young Piney Point trainees led a fu­ rafters of a playground jungle gym. A year of hard work and shared pride. neral procession of mourners to Sea­ woman 'spreads out a blanket beneath With the new military ships, the farers Haven Cemetery in Valley Lee, a tree. Several children go to her. The face of the maritime industry changed Md. On Jan. 12, 1985, Frank Mongelli teacher, like the young girls in her and the work of the Seafarers broad­ died following a prolonged illness. charge, wears the traditional dress of ened. Seafarers underwent security her church, a long pinafore skirt and Before a garden of winter-picked clearance checks and carried out clas­ blue bonnet. The men and boys wear flowers, they gently lowered his casket sified military exercises throughout the dark trousers, white shirts and bow and stood back to salute the man and world. Through a program designed ties. Out of a paper lunch bag comes the Union official who had done so by the Navy and the SIU, they prac­ a Mcintosh apple. And soda pop. A much to advance the lives of Seafarers ticed underway replenishment and basketball clears the hoop. through training and education. sealift operation procedures at the For 9-year-old Shiloh King, the only 72. Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Frank Mongelli was He had been thing missing from her old one-room loyal member of the SIU for years Seamanship. a 40 schoolhouse in comparison to her new In their new work roles, many Sea­ and had worked tirelessly to shape one are the bright yellow swings. farers excelled. Commendations from many of the programs in existence in Otherwise, there is much more forthe the Navy for a job well done seemed the Union today . children at the hall, more space to to be coming in weekly to SIU head­ As the vice president of the Seafar­ romp and enough room for desks for quarters. The first vessel under MSC ers Harry Lundeberg School of Sea­ 23 children attending the school. With charter to be stationed in the Medi­ manship, Mongelli had the distinction three rooms and separate film projec­ terranean, the S.S. Transcolorado re­ of directing and molding what has tion and reading lab areas, they now turned after a two-and-one-half-year­ become the largest maritime training take instruction in ABC's preschool long mission. facility in the nation. With his unwav­ class, kindergarten, elementary and But it was not only for new Navy ering compassion, he made certain intermediate grades. ass!gnments that the year will be re­ that students were given every possi­ Said reverend of their church, Steve membered. Food is again sailing to ble means of learning and then flour­ Skelton, of the donation, "It was a underdeveloped nations on SIU-con­ Godsend for us all." ishing in the merchant marine. His There was no greater loss to the SIU last year than �\, tracted vessels. Cavite City in the office was always open. His legacy and versatile officials of the Seafarers International * * * * Philippines has a new Little League remains in the minds of hundreds of labor movement under the leadership of past SIU R; Seafarers Training and Upgrading School-first baseball team, and orphans in the young men and women with dreams Henri Percikow, a member of the HI (right) and Hall were photographed attending one ol Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in 1971. ,

and plowed Picked cotton and com, My hands tore from the earth

Coal, copper, iron and gold ...."

Hands of Seafarers everywhere were busy last year. Lashing vessels to piers and making other preparations, Sea­ farers rushed to batten down the hatches as hurricanes shot up the East Coast and Gulf shores in record num­ bers. Hurricane Bob was first. Danny, Elena and Gloria followed. Then Juan and Kate. The nation held its breath. Damage fromthe hurricanes mounted. . x . And when it was all over, official estimates of the damage totaled $5 billion. Where Elena would touch down, no one seemed able to predict. She chose Mississippi, slamming ashore with 125 mph winds. Louisiana, Alabama and Florida were ravaged. In the Pensa­ cola area of Florida, the largest evac­ uation ever to be organized brought more than 1 million people to safer ground. Tugs like the GraceMcA llister provided employment for inland workers in 1985. The Grace was in operation 24 hours a day in and around From each of the four states, SIU the port of Norfolk. To keep up with a continuous flow of work orders, two SIU crews were hired aboard the Grace to work a day shift members spilled from SIU hiring halls and night shift. But between shifts there was always time to welcome aboard David 'Scrap Iron' Jones, SIU patrolman. Above, Jones is to work closely, many around-the­ pictured seated in the left corner of the galley dining booth, meeting with Grace crewmembers. clock, with the Red Cross Disaster Coastline Project. And their efforts Philippines' Subic Bay can now buy of findinga better way of life, a sense SIU, sang praises of America's work­ shoes with money donated by Seafar­ of accomplishment, discipline and a ers. In his poem, "My Hands," pub­ made a difference said Red Cross Dis- ers. In Baltimore, children resumed feeling of belonging to the brotherhood lished in the August issue of the LOG, aster Director Grover C. Adams. In a letter to SIU officials, Adams wrote, their studies in a new schoolhouse of the sea. his words elevate laborers up from "Your cooperation, and that of your courtesy of the Baltimore hiring hall. sweat shop factories and servitude to * * * * membership . . . have made a great Relief was given to hundreds of hur­ the honored position of builders of contribution, not only to the Red Cross ricane victims, and Seafarers on the As much as Frank Mongelli loved nations. disaster program but also to the re- LNG Ta urus rescued 17 Indochinese children, he would have cherished the covery of the disaster victims them- boat people when their small boat sight of children at play at the Balti­ "My hands, once straight and selves." capsized. Dozens of others around the more hall. In January, with their faces strong At the Lundeberg School, trainees world were brought to safety by Sea­ reddened by the chill of winter, they Raised girder upon girder, brick saw the flood waters approaching. farers' helping hands. And with med­ took recess on a playground just a upon brick Runofffrom the Appalachians brought ical assistance from the SIU Welfare short run from the schoolhouse they These now awkward trembling flooding to Pennsylvania, West Vir- Plan, one seriously ill daughter of a began attending several weeks earlier hands Anchored cables along river, over ginia, Virginia and Maryland. Muddy Seafarer took her first steps. Today, on the firstfloor of the Baltimore hall, 1 waters steam-rolled over entire towns, three-year-old Katie Calahan walks. the space donated by the SIU. mountain L Even as they are suspended upside­ Laid rail and wire that circle the and headwaters crested up to the na­ s * * * * down and a few inches away from land. tion' s capital. Just a matter of yards s But the year was also bittersweet. each other, they chatter from thebowed My hands welded, molded, seeded from the SHLSS, the St. Georges S4

20 I LOG I January 1986 �wards Around the World When high tide came in at 10 pm, trainees evacuated nearby residents, taking the Lundeberg school bus through rising waters. Families fleeing their homes were given shelter at the Piney Point Hotel. Trainees went back with a pick-up truck to retrieve pets families had not had time to collect.

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The SIU-contracted tug M/V Hinton (Marine Contracting) was a gas station in the Atlantic Ocean last year off South Carolina for a boat entered by Popeye's Fried Chicken in a race from Miami to New York City. The fa st food chain entrusted their boat to the guys who wear the SIU

,th ofFrank Mongelli, one of the most respected n. Mongelli came up through the ranks of the !Jt Paul Hall. Together they worked to form the '1yn and then in Piney Point. Above, Mongelli �artiest educational conferences at the Seafarers

River swelled and lunged over its banks and retaining walls. But SHLSS train­

ees kept a fleet of training vessels As winter thawed on the Great Lakes, SIU members appeared everywhere on open afloat in the SHLSS marina and kept scaffolding and on decks, ,_tting out vessels for another shipping season. Richard Louma the Dauntless, an historic yacht gave the Charles E. Wilson new life applying a fresh coat of paint to the ship's faded hull. moored at the school, from breaking loose from lines and washing up onto pilings.

Crews from many SIU-contracted cedure, the crew of the Countess did vessels received safety awards last not try to be heroes on their own. year, while safety survival suits be­ Though the vessel had several small came mandatory formost deepsea ves arms stored in the captain's quarters, Wheelsman Cliff Cadreau found employ­ sels. Topping the charts of safety con­ as do most ships under Military Sealift ment on one Great Lakes carrier last year. scious crews were Seafarers on the Command, not a shot was fired. The For lack of cargo, only half of the ships in LNG Capricorn. They celebrated their crew showed the type of restraint that the Lakes Beet were fitted out for the 1985 shipping season, and many other SIU mem­ third accident-free year. can save lives in the event of such an bers from the region had to seek employ­ "Safety contributes to the smooth attack, even as Seafarers were threat­ ment elsewhere. operation and to the productivity and ened with knives and the captain of lowered costs of a trip," SIU Vice (Continued on Page 22.) Presictent Angus "Red" Campbell caps, and their speedster finished sec­ commented on the award to the LNG ond in the race . carrier.

Making a 14-minute stop to refuel The SS President Grant received an at the Hinton, the speedboat also took award from 1984. American President on a relief crew flown in by helicopter Lines, after looking over the safety onto a barge lashed to the tug. But the records of its ships, proudly presented racers didn't take SIU members up on SIU workers with an award forachiev­ their standing offer of a free boat wash ing an accident-free year and for being with every fill-up of high-test gas. the safest ship for that year in the Another unusual assignmentfor SIU APL fleet. crews came when the Welland Canal, * * * * a vital link between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, was closed and could not Piracy on the high seas has become accommodate a vessel carrying an an increasingly serious problem for 18,000 ton GM auto stamping press mariners who sail through the Malacca destined for one midwestern auto in­ Straits, West Africa and Indonesia. dustrial park. A caravan of Great Lakes It' s become so serious that maritime tugs with SIU Boatmen made the de­ unions have gone before the United livery instead. Nations to ask for measures to be put Transferring the press to the decks in force to reduce the likelihood of of the barges, SIU members piloted pirate attacks. along an alternate route through the Pirates boarded the SIU-contracted oldest canal in the nation, the NYS Fa lcon Countess in the Straits of Ma­ Erie Barge Canal and into Lake Erie. lacca, brandishing knives and made The canal proved narrow, with shal­ off with $19,000 pried from the ship's ·two children members of the Church of the of low water and low-hanging bridges. safe . �us Christ like Shiloh King (left) and Jade A lesson learnedfr om this and other may continue learning their ABC's since the The trip had its dangers. But in 17 Katie Calahan, daughter of SIU member nated space for them to set up a working days the auto press was docked safe experiences is that ship crewmembers Thomas Calahan, learned to walk last year, >use on the first Door of the Baltimore hall. and sound at the terminal in Cleveland. should remain calm. According to pro- despite suffering from cerebral palsy.

January 1986 I LOG I 21 �1u t-'eop1e vvorKea, t-'1ayea ana Learnea

(Continued from Page 21.) vessel. There was a lot of commotion joined a carnivaland became a fearless the vessel bound and held at knife­ around O'Brien last year. But then, stuntman. point. there has been for years. Ever since That was 32 years ago. Today, he took his motorcycle aboard the O'Brien has a fan club that reaches * * * * It's probably a good thing that Sea- merchant vessel Cha;les McCormack, around the globe. He performs on farer Pat O'Brien was not aboard the got off at the port in Everett, Wash., television and at fairgroundsall across America, thrilling audiences as Capt. Dynamite with the World Champion Dare Devils of Amusement Enter­ prises, in Houston, Texas. What was his favorite stunt in '85? Well it was perhaps the one he per­ formed most. Sixty times last year he hunkered down in a wooden framed 'coffin of death' stretched with butch­ er's paper. Four sticks of dynamite at his head and at his feet were ready to explode. And each time they did, it

was a sight to behold as the captain - blasted through the air. As one of the greatest stuntmen the world over, and a Seafarer, O'Brien surely did not complain about 1985. Always he picks himself up after the explosions. Amid cheers, he brushes off the dirt and scorched butcher's paper. And next year he will be back to do it again.

* * * * Roberta Blum, a graduateof SHLSS trainee class #314, had a lot to smile about last year. She set a first at the SIU Boatman Pat O'Brien, alias 'Captain Dynamite,' has gained a reputation in Hollywood, travelling circus shows and at state fairs. In his dynamite act he blows himself up and Lundeberg School when she became lives to tell about it. He is one of the most accomplished stuntmen in the world. the firstwoman in the SHLSS nautical

Water survival suits became part of the standard safety equipment carried on most SIU-contracted vessels last year. Stepping into one of the suits, Seafarer Grif McRee demonstrates how the suit is designed to keep a seafarer alive for hours in the water if forced to abandon ship.

science certificate program. Last year, too, Blum was working to complete an Associate in"Arts degree.

* * * Katie Calahan, three-year-old daughter of Seafarer Thomas Calahan and wife Sarah, may be too young to appreciate 1985 but she will when she is older. Only through stories from loved ones may she then understand how special she made the year for thousands like her who will take with them for a lifetime the handicaps and the pain of cerebral palsy. For Katie hope came last year. As an adult, she may be able to walk unassisted by the heavy leg braces she now wears. Because last year she worked like an athlete in training the muscles in her legs, deformed by ce­ rebral palsy, until she could move, take one step, then another to walk. Word of Katie's struggle and accom­ plishment has spread. She has become a little legend to nurses, doctors, teachers and physical therapists who work with cerebral palsy victims. Rep­ resenting the Easter Seals campaign Sonat Marine Barge Capt. John M. Herina reads the names of those who died in Vietnam on the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in as a poster child in 1984, a photo of Manhattan, N.Y. This photo appeared on the front page of The New York Times last year as did a story aboutVietnam veterans. Because Katie was distributed nationwide. It Herina served in that war, he has veteran's status. But the irony is that had he been a Seafarer in Vietnam during the war years, his continues to bring thousands of dollars service to his country would bring him neither status as a veteran nor a monument to remember fellow Seafarers killed in the war. in donations so that some day a cure Nowhere are the names of Seafarers who perished then or in other wars inscribed in stone. Ve terans' status bas been denied Seafarers for may be found for treatment of the WWI, WWII and the Korean War also. But on Dec. 5, the Defense Department granted veterans' status to Seafarers participating in one condition, a condition that affects special mission during the invasion of Normandy. Two hundred are still alive to hear of the honor. In the second world war more than 6,000 members of the merchant marine lost their lives. 750,000 Americans.

22 I LOG I January 1986 In 1985

Because of the professionalism of SIU workers and persistent lobbying for jobs- by the SIU leadership, SIU members gained hundreds or jobs aboard military ships in the year just passed. Deck/engine utility James Dickens signed on the USNS Southern Cross, one or dozens of vessels under military contract with SIU crews.

Like many other SIU-contracted ships which areplaying key support roles for our nation's defense teams around the world, the Transcolorado earned commendations for the professional performance of her crew.

One or many ves.wls of the U.S. fishing Heet, the Tina & Vina, d� in all her finery­ carnations, streamers and Oags-for the Blessing of the Fleet ceremonies in New Bedford, Mam. Steward Assistant Leo Kinney and Manny the seafaring dog on the MlUfhaltmt Island bopper dredge. 1985-Welfare Plans Met Your Needs

This past year has seen many improvements in the Seafarers Welfare November 1985 LOG. Plan. The Plan is developing new programs and during the year has We have continued to provide college opportunities to our members and streamlined its claims departments. All of this is being done to make your their families through the Seafarers Scholarship Program. Plans more responsive to your needs. For our pensioners, the Seafarers Pension Plan approved a cash buy-out Here are some of the things that happened in 1985: program for eligible members to give them more flexibility in planning for We have centralized our computerized claims processing at our head­ their retirement. A full report on this program was published in the October quarters in Camp Springs so that we have been able to speed up the time 1985 issue of the LOG. it takes to process and pay your claims. And throughout the year, the Plan has published articles in the LOG to We have installed a toll-free "800" number at headquarters so that keep you informed and up-to-date on amendments to the Plan and on new members can get fast and accurate information on the status of their claims. programs to help you and your families deal with the harsh realities of With medical costs rising each year, we are instituting a program to sickness, accidents and death. monitor hospital bills-and you will be able to earn a cash bonus for taking part in this program. A full description of this program is being published ARC PROGRAM in this issue of the LOG. Be sure to read about it. At the request of the membership at the Crew Conference last year, we During 1985, your Seafarers Plans have helped many of our brothers and began a Preferred Provider Program to select hospitals in areas around the sisters begin the process of recovery from alcoholism. This program, which nation where our membership is concentrated. These hospitals and their has been in place at the Seafarers ARC in Valley Lee, Md. for nearly 10 out-patient clinics will be selected on the basis of their reputations for years, has helped hundreds of Seafarers become happy and useful persons. highest quality heahh care. These facilities will provide our members and Also in this past year, the Plans trustees approved a program to help their families with the best medical care available. those of our members who are addicted to other mood-changing drugs. This We already have established a relationship with the Virginia Mason program begins this month, and will be developed in the months ahead to Medical Center in Seattle, and we are in the process of contracting Preferred offer an ·avenue of hope to those of our members who want to kick their Provider facilities in other areas. A report on this development is in the addictions.

January 1986 I LOG I 23 Military Ships Steam Into SIU Job Picture

Last year marked a major change in job patterns for Seafarers. Jobs aboard military ships, most requiring specialized training in areas such as helicopter landing, crane work and underway replenishment, were the biggest game in town. While commercial shipping has been in a years-long slump, the SIU decided not to sit on its thumbs. Because of planning made several years ago , courses were developed and strategies outlined to make sure that this Union and its members could fill the job slots opening up on military ships. Currently military work accounts for about 30 percent of all seafaring jobs and could climb as high as 50 percent during the next year or two. ''You have to adapt to the times and accept the changes in the industry, and we have done that. We will always work to revitalize commercial shipping because a private merchant marine is essential to the country's trading. But we also must make sure that men and women of the SIU have a place to work, a place to use their skills," SIU President Frank Drozak said. Following is a list of the new military ships Seafarers crewed last year.

Type Name Crew Company

FOIFO MV American Cormorant 11 Pacific Gulf Marine RO/RO USNS Altair 26 Bay Tankers RO/RO USNS Denebola 26 Bay Tankers RO/RO USNS Pollux 26 Bay Tankers RO/RO USNS Regulus 26 Bay Tankers RO/RO PFC Dewayne T. Williams 21 American Overseas Marine

RO/RO 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo 21 American Overseas Marine RO/RO 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez 21 AMERSEA RO/RO PFC James Anderson 14 Exporter Transport From T-A GOS vessels (above) to break RO/RO PVT Harry Fisher 14 Extender Transport RO/RO 1st Lt. Alex Bonnyman 14 Expresser Transport bulkers like the (below) RO/RO 16 Waterman Southern Cross Major Stephen Pless and just about every type of ship T-5 Tanker MV Pa ul Buck 15 Ocean Shipholding inbetween, Seafarers worked hand-in­ T-5 hand with the military throughout the Tanker MV Gus W. Darnell 15 Ocean Shipholding T-5 MV Samuel Cobb 15 Ocean Shipholding world last year. It's a trend. It's where Break/ the jobs are. bulk Southern Cross 57 IOM T- l Crowley Tow & Trans­ Tanker Alatna 15 port T- 1 Crowley Tow & Trans­ Tanker Chattahoochee 15 portation T- l Crowley Tow & Trans­ Tanker Nodaway 15 portation IOM Craneship Gem StaJe 57 IOM T AGOS MV Contender 12 Sea Mobility T AGOS MV Stalwart 12 Sea Mobility T AGOS MV Triumph 12 Sea Mobility T AGOS MV Vindicator 1 2 Sea Mobility

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I I Seafarers on the Obregon and ships like her have proven they can be counted on as part of the country's national security posture.

24 I LOG I January 1986 • I + I I m as I ington I I Seafarers International Union of North America. AFL-CIO January 1986 Legislative. Administrative and Regulatory Happenings I I penses held onboard U .S.-ftag cruise ships and industry is nonexistent, and will remain so I Washington Report companies doing business in Puerto Rico. without the utilization of foreignbuilt vessels. " In order to protect the interests of its mem­ I None of those provisions was contained in Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Rep. bers in today's increasingly complex world, a I the final version of the bill, which marks an Helen Bentley (R-Md. ) also have introduced maritime union has to be able to operate on I important victory for American seamen and legislation aimed at reviving the once proud many different levels. workers. According to the AFL-CIO, "more passenger vessels industry. I The maritime industry is one of the most than a million postcards [protesting the pro­ I heavily regulated in the country. It is also one posed changes] were distributed [by labor] , I of the most volatile. In the space of 20 short along with some 650,000 brochures, 10,000 I years, seamen have had to adapt to far-reach­ Business Briefs posters and 60,000 legislative fact sheets." * Profits for the three major U .S.-ftag con­ I ing changes in their environment ( containeri­ It took two votes before the House passed tainer shippmg companies, including Sea-Land, zation, computerized engine rooms, reduced I the bill. Ninety-two percent of the House are likely to be down in fiscal year 1986, manning scales) as well as rapid and unpre­ I Republicans voted against the president on the according to a study commissioned by Alex dictable swings in world shipping markets. grounds that the bill was "anti-business." Brown, a Baltimore based brokerage firm. I People working in the maritime industry After a week of intense lobbying, the president * A quiet revolution is occurring in the I have their own special needs. They often are was able to persuade 50 members of his own shipping industry. Almost overnight, shipping I exposed to toxic chemicals and hazardous party to switch their votes. companies have moved to open their own rail I conditions. At the same time, they share the * Marad Authorizations Bill-H.R. 2965 , operations, thereby substantially cutting trans­ I same concerns as workers everywhere. They the Maritime Authorizations Bill for fiscal year portation costs. More than $200 million has are parents, homeowners, members of the 8 I 19 6 was signed into law. While a number of been spent in this area. In the forefront of this community. I important maritime programs will continue to development are such companies as Sea-Land, Life onboard ship must be monitored to I be funded, levels were lower than in previous which opened its own rail terminal in Tacoma, ensure continued health and safety. At the years. Wash. I same time, the American maritime industry The authorizations bill once was considered * The Journalof Commerce predicts a move I has to compete against owners who pay their to be the single most important piece of mar­ toward "equilibrium" for the American-flag I workers next to nothing and tolerate unsafe itime legislation. During the past five years shipping industry next year, but at a great I conditions onboard their vessels. fu nding for most maritime programs has been price. "The next two months undoubtedly will The aritime industry plays a little appre­ I sharply decreased or eliminated. This year's see more shipowners go out of business and ciated �but vital role in the defense of this I authorizations bill would probably be even others hover perilously on the brink of collapse country. Intimes of national emergency, troops I lower were it not for the fact that funding for before any real evidence of recovery emerges." and materials have to be transported overseas. the Operating Differential Subsidy program is * Two ocean incinerator vessels approved I That takes ships and merchant seamen. Airlift set for a fixed term. Yet even this important by the EPA have been caught up in bankruptcy I accounts for only 10 percent of this country's program is slowly being phased out by the hearings. The move stalls the development of I strategic transportation needs. administration. an important new American industry. I * Build and Charter-Thanks to the efforts * According to a report carried in The I of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), an $852 mil­ Washington Post, the supertankers that were I lion mariner build and charter program was built in the 1970s and early 1980s are no longer I Legislative Update included in a funding resolution for a number economically viable given today's depressed •• * Farm Aid Bill-President Reagan signed of federal agencies, including the U.S. Coast shipping market. ''They faceextincti on,'' stated into law a $52 billion farm aid bill that contains I Guard and the Department of Defense. This the article. a provision that will have far-reaching impli­ will mark the first newinf usion offederal funds I * A controversy is brewing over the future cations for the job security of seamen. into the depressed shipbuilding industry since of the Export-Import Bank. The administration I Under the terms of the bill, the cargo pref­ the Construction Differential Subsidy program wants to extend the agency's charter, which I erence requirements of the P.L. 480 program was eliminated in 1980. Before this money can expires Sept. 30. Congress, however, might I will be increased from 50 to 75 percent over be used, however, authorizing legislation will want to ''use the occasion for anovera ll review I a three-year period. At the same time, certain have to be passed by Congress. of the Ex-Im Bank," according to a report I so-called programs such as Blended Credit and Given the nature of the budgetary process, carried in Th e Washington Post. The admin­ I BICEP will be exempt from the cargo prefer­ federal funds have to be both approved and istration's goal of eliminating long-term loans ence requirements of the legislation. authorized. Usually Congress approves a pro­ I under the program has met with opposition on The compromise ends a bitter dispute be­ gram and then authorizes fu nds for it. In this Capitol Hill, where many people view the I tween the maritime and agriculture industries case, however, Congress has set aside monies Export-Import Bank as an important and un­ I that has waged unabated since Secretary of for a program before approving it. derused tool in formulating trade policy. I Agriculture John Block suspended the Blended * "Buy American" Amendment-The Budget I Credit program (see story page 1). The con­ Reconciliation package is pending action in I troversy became so intense that it threatened both the Senate and House. The House version the standing of both industries on Capitol Hill. contains an amendment offered by Rep. Doug Agency Briefs I Marad is seeking to implement a new SIU President Frank Drozak was one of the Bosco (D-Calif.) that would require 50 percent * system of monitoring subsidy payments, which I first people to sense the damage being done of equipment used in the production of oil and it contends will be "more efficient." I to both industries and to call fora compromise. gas to be constructed in the United States. * The State Department will hold an open I He emphasized that both industries were fac­ Noting the national security implications of forum on an upcoming UNCTAD meeting on I ing the same set of problems: heavily subsi­ the amendment and the economic benefits it the registration of vessels under national flags. I dized foreigncompetition, closed markets and would generate in terms of jobs, revenue and I an overvalued American dollar. taxes, SIU President Frank Drozak has made I * Tax Reform-In a dramatic showdown a strong pitch on Capitol Hill. between Reagan and the members of his own "The advent of foreign government subsi­ I Regional party, the House of Representatives passed dization below cost pricing," he wrote one * There is an increased competition be­ I H.R. 3838, a comprehensive tax reform bill. senator, "has assured that virtually no new tween American ports for cargo. Typical of I The proposal was substantially different from mobile drill rigs have been built domestically the new mood is this quote from a Baltimore I the one that the administration originally sub­ since 1982. Without a Buy American provision, port official that was carried in The Wall Street Journal: "The only way that we are going to I mitted to Congress. this trend will no doubt continue." _ thrive is to increase our share of the pie." I The original text contained a number of *Passenger V�I Industry-Sen. Ted I provisions that were opposed by the maritime Stevens (R-Alaska) has introduced S. 1935, * The St. Lawrence Seaway has closed industry and the labor movement. The provi­ legislation that would permit five foreign built down for the winter season. While business I sions included the following: taxation of fringe passenger vessels to be documented under was down from last year, the season ended I benefits, the elimination of the Capital Con­ U.S. laws. "The purpose of this bill," said later, in large part because of several accidents I struction Fund and an end to the tax deductible Stevens, "is to promote the development of a that tied up traffic. I status of state and local taxes, business ex- domestic cruise ship industry. Our domestic (Continued on Page 31.) I January 1986 I LOG I 25 na vva11cu 1 rv1 "' u1 vvv� In and Around Honolulu

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The C.S. Salernum (Transoceanic Cable Ships) readies to sail to Okinawa. Loading stores are ABs (I. to r. ) Jeff Hood, Greg "G-Man" Johnson and Mike Shanley.

Chief Cook Devlin "Maunakea" Wilson (I.) and Steward Assistant Jerry Hong share a few laughs in the Salernum's galley.

The bridge of the Ogden Yukon (OMI) at anchor in Honolulu. (Photo by Danny Keao)

Laura Gillespie (I.) and Nicolas Lopezare bothassistant crew cooksaboard the Constitution (American Hawaii Cruises).

Crewmembersaboard the Constitution meet with Patrolman Errol Pak (seated, second from left). They include: Melanio Domingo, chief electrician/educational director; Louis Zkizzo, bosun's mate; Roy Aldanese, 3rd steward; Richard Jim Hoeming, oiler aboard the Constitution. Connelly, AB, and John Kelly, AB.

26 I LOG I January 1986 Aooara rne 5. 5. 1naepenaence In Ha waii

David Millard is a room steward aboard Bartender Mike Minkler is always kept busy aboard the Independence. Sara Rotter, deck lounge stewardess. the Independence (AmericanHawaii Cruises).

Ernst Forbes (I.) and Damien Ta noi both work as assistants in the laundry. Tony Piazza Jr., assistant purser, and Fran Sakai, junior assistant purser, are usually the first people you'll see upon embarkation.

Jerry Johnson (I.) keeps the ship's engines working; Raymond Prall is a machinist onboard This happy galley trio includes (I. to r.) Roy Calo, assistant cook; Jens Jensen, executive the Independence. chef, and Doriana Schmeltz, 2nd cook.

January 1986 I LOG I 27 Help

A

Friend

Deal With

I CELESTIAL NAVIGATION I A SKILL ALL SEAFARERS 1=LJBJ� Alcoholics don't have friends.\ Because a friend SHOULD KNOW wouldn't let another man blindly tra•el a course that has \ to Jud to the destruction of his health, his job and his family. And that's where an alcoholic is headed. Enroll in the Celestial Navigation Course at Helping a fellow Seafarer who has a drinking problem is just as easy-and just as important-as steering a blind Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center SHLSS. It'll help you learn what you need to man across a street. All you have to do is take that I ;uu intcrt' 'tt•J in ;11tt•nding .1 \1\-wcc!._ pni!-'r;un al 1hc Ak••hl•1ii: Seafarer by the arm and guide him to the Union's R..:h;1t>il11aut1n Ct•ntcr. I umkr,tand (h;ll ,111 m� mt•ti lc:1I ;ind l'l•tm� ling know to earn the Ocean Operator Over 200 Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center in Valley Lee, Md. H' cnrJ\ u ill l:it• '-t'PI �lri<-11� i:onfidenfial. ;mJ tha! 1hc� "ill nnl ht' l.:1.•p1 Onco he's there, an alcoholic SIU member will receive ;1n� u.h1..·r\' t' \Ct'fll at Tl'it' l t' Olt•r. Miles License. And that means a better job and the care and counseling he needs. And he'll get the \i:llllt.' support of brother SIU members who are fighting the more money! same tough battle he is back to a healthy, productive I alcohol-free life. I Addr1.·" Contact your SIU Field Representat ive, or fill I The road back to sobriety is a long one for an alcoholic. I out the application in this issue of the Log. But because of ARC, an alcoholic SIU member doesn't I T NP I ckptwnc have to travel the distlll\ce alone. And by guiding a \fail IP I brother Seafarer in the direction of the Rehab Center, I Siar Roule Ro:\ 153-A I \"�lie� l,tt. Md. 20692 you'll be showing him that the first step back to recovery I is only an arm's length away. I Course Starts April 11 '--���L------

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS KNOW YOUR RIGHTS KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGA· Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District makes TIONS. Copies of the SIU constitution are available in specific provision for safeguarding the membership's all Union halls. All members should ohtain copies of this money and Union finances. The constitution requires a constitution so as to fam iliarize themselves with its con­ detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three tents. Any time you feel any member or officer isattempt­ months. which are to be submit1ed to the membership by ing to deprive you of any constitutional right or ohligation the Secretary-Treasurer. A quarterly finance committee hy any methods such as deal ing with charges. trials. etc .. of rank and fi le members, elected by the memhership. as well as all other details. then the mernher so affected makes examination each quarter of the finances of the should immediately notify headquarters. Union and reports fully their findings and recommenda­ EQUAL RIGHTS. All rnernhers are guaranteed equal tions. Members of this committee may make dissenting rights in employment and as memhers of the SIU. These reports, specific recommendations and separate findings. rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SlU Atlantic. the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District arc administered employers. Consequently. no mernher may he discrimi­ in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund nated against because of race. creed, color. -sex and na­ agreemen ts. All these agreements specify that the trustees tional or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union denied the equal rights to which he is entitled. he should and management representatives and their alternates. All notify Union hea dq uarters . expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made 11111n111111111tu1111R1111111n1111111111u1dlll1m1111111111111n111111n11u111n1111111n1111111n1111 SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust -SP AD. SPAD is a separate segregated fund. Its pro· fund financial records are available at the headquarters of patrolman or other Union offi�ial, in your opinion, fails ceeds are used to further its objects and purposes includ­ the various trust funds. to protect your cont ract rights properly. contact the ing. but not limited to, furthering the political. social and nearest SIU port agent. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and senior· economic interests of maritime workers. the preservation ity are protected exclusively by the contracts between the EDITORIAL POLICY - THE LOG. The Log has and furthering of the American Merchant Marine with Union and the employers. Get to know your shipping traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving improved employment opportunities for se amen and ' rights. Copies of these contracts arc posted and available the political purposes of any individual in the Union. hoatmen and the advancement of trade union concepts. in all Union halls. lf you feel there has been any violation officer or memher. It has also. refrained from publishing In connection with such objects. SPAD supports and of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the articles deemed harmful to the Union or its col lective contributes to pol itical candidates for elective office. All contracts between the Union and the employers. notify membership. This estahlished policy has been reaffirmed contributions are voluntary. No contrihution may be the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail. return re· by membership action at the Septemhcr. 1960, meetings solicited or received because of force, joh discrimination, ceipt requested. The proper address for this is: in all constitutional ports. The responsihility for Log financial reprisal. or threat of such conduct, or as a con­ Angus "Red" Campbell policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of dition of membership in the Union or of employment. If Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board a contribution is made hy reason of the above improper conduct. notify the Seafarers Union or SPAD ny certified 5201 Auth Way and Britannia Way may delegate. from among its ranks. one individual to Prince Georges County carry out this responsihility. mail within 30 days of the contribution for invest igation Camp Springs, Md. 20746 and appropriate action ;ind refund. if involuntary. Sup· PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to port SPAD to protect and further your economic. poli­ to anyone in any offic ial capacity in the SlU unless an you at all times. either hy writing directly to the Union tical and social interests. and American trade union official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circum­ or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. concepts. stances should any member pay any money for any reason CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avail· unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone If at any time a member feels that any of the above rights havt able in all Sl U halls. These contracts specify the wages attempts to require any such payment be made without been violated, or that he has been denied hisconstitutional right of and conditions under which you work and live aboard supplying a receipt. or if a member is required to make a accessUnion to recordsor information,he shouldImmedia tely notify your ship or boat. Know your contract rights. as well as payment and is given an official receipt. but feels that he SIU President Frank Drozak at Headquarters by certified mail, your obligations. such as filing for OT on the proper should not have heen required to make such payment. this returnreceipt The� requested. is 5201 Auth Wayand Britannia sheets and in the proper manner. If. al any time. any SIU should immediately he reported to Union headquarters. Way, Prince Georges County, Camp Springs, Md. 20746.

28 I LOG I January 1986 ----Book Review ---- Life on the Water Through a Woman's Eyes by Lynnette Marshall

Traditionally, seafaring has been a the nearest she had ever been to "per­ the distances and months of separation had cleared he did not avert his gaze. man's world. It has been a world fe ction." that tears at the life-fabric of the fam­ But as the tug cleared the channel, it where men are men , a place where ilies in the maritime trades were di­ was then the author explains that she experience in the hard knocks of street ''A fresh breeze began to blow off­ minished to a few short steps between saw in his face that "exhilaration of life has been a prerequisite to surviving shore, a fragrant reminder of lush decks for the Robsons-she working triumph." months at sea. The docks in the old summer crops, just past their prime, in the galley or on deck, he as captain days were a place where women could that stretched for miles on the other in the wheelhouse, where she later It was this triumph Robson herself not work. A woman's safety could not side of the salt marshes. I did not let would work after earning her license. would come to experience. She chron­ be guaranteed when she passed through myself think that it was in all proba­ icles her own achievements in carrying the chainlink fe nce separating the bility the last time I would have that From such a distance, observing her out physically demanding work and waterfront from the rest of the world. pleasure," she writes. In the distance husband's work, the author says she learning how to react to the crew. Women In the Wheelhouse, pub­ lone ships passed . And she was glad was able to first understand why any­ Some, she writes, did not care to see lished last year by Tidewater Press, is to drink in one last sky and the slow one would, knowing the danger of tug a woman working with them. But the a book about one woman's struggle to night-crossings of ships and waves work, choose the profession. There majority, she found, accepted her cross the divide and work in the sea- ebbing out across the bay like fine are scenes such as the approach to presence and helped her to gain skill and confidence in her own abilities.

It is the triumph that Robson writes most of. The reader is invited to share in the struggles of these workers. The reader can too sigh relief when a line is thrown in time to secure a barge without injury to a deckhand. Winter is especially hard fortugboat workers. There are smallachievements and large. And crews survive, even as tugs be­ come encased in ice. Hot tap water becomes a luxury in winter and frost­ bite and hypothermia constant wor­ ries. But when the cherry red stove heats up, after being overhauled, and a warm meal can then be prepared , the author celebrates the talents of crewmembers . A description of a tug so frozen by ice that it becomes, "a Nancy Ta ylor Robson learned life on the water aboard the tug Progress (above). In her years aboard this and other boats, she went from crystal palace that threatened to an­ relief cook to mate. chor us all in the Chesapeake ," sends faring world. In the process, author silver strands. In the moon's light the Hell Gate, a treacherous portion of a shiver up the spine. And just as an Nancy Taylor Robson uncovers life strands seemed suspended from the the East River in New York leading intense fe eling of dread and cabin fe ver on the water few outside the maritime bay's rolling banks and the tug sus­ under the Triborough Bridge . As her begins to try the crew, the author industry have had the opportunity to pended as well, swaying just as a husband Gary stood at the wheel, lines describes workers prying doors open observe firsthand . sleeping sailor's hammock sways strung from a barge in tow broke loose . Rob­ with ice picks and then darts into With gentle prose, Robson brings from the open deck on hot summer son spun the wheel first this way, then spring. A small bird perches on the the reader to the other side of the nights. that as the barge threatened to ram sill of the deckhouse, inches from fe nce, to the warmth of the galley , Today on cold sunny days, Robson the shores on either side of the narrow Robson. The two watch each other. where lives of seafarers unfold over now 34, zips up children's snowsuits slice of river channel . Giving enough The author can feel the sensation of mugs of black, inky coffee. Tugboats, for walks out of doors . Matthew is 3 play in the steering, he kept the barge the bird breathing; its breath so close leading barges precipitously in tow, and Abigail 10 months old. Her home swinging, back and forth, without such brushes her cheek. Then the bird, thread their way, along narrow pas­ is in Galena now, a hamlet where force that the lines remaining would hearing the call of a fellow winged sages of inland waterways, through people of the water live and work and snap and send the barge up over the creature , skitters offto the deck below harrowing storms at sea. Images flyto the Sassafras River flows into Kent tug and into the rocks. Until the tug and takes flight. the senses. Starry nights and sunsets, County, Md. It is a quaint settlement mist rising on rivers are not easily with gardens rimming houses and where forgotten as Robson describes the Robson is comfortable raising her chil­ overwhelming beauty of the water­ dren. She still waits though for her ways , scenes so beautiful that the husband, Gary , to return from his heart aches to be there ..And when journeys as a tug captain. And longs Robson takes a leave of absence to to be sailing at the helm with him as raise her family, one is sorry to see third mate. her go, because, of course , that is Spending weeks at a time in the when the book ends. galley as a cook and deckhand, then It was a round harvest moon that in the mate's quarters of tugs, Robson cast the Chesapeake Bay in light as entered the seafaring profession to be Nancy Taylor Robson climbed up to with her husband. "I had gradually the wheelhouse of the tug Quaker to discovered that it was a rare thing to assume her watch for the last time . meet a seaman over 35 who was mar­ That she has found home in the sea­ ried to his original spouse ... We faring world was something she had hoped that ifwe could share our work­ not expected in 1976 when she began ing lives as well as our home, our sailing. "It had seemed to me at the marriage would have a better-than­ time that tugs were greasy, inhospit­ even chance," she writes. able mountains of metal," Taylor wrote Through her husband's efforts, they of her first impression. But this night, were able to work and to be together. sailing from the Chesapeake Bay into When a relief job opened aboard a tug Tangier Sound in a steamy August of on which Gary Robson was working, The PFC James Anderson is one of the many new military ships which he would let her know. She would bas 1982, was to be her last. She would provided hundreds of jobs for SIU members. Above, Norfolk Rep Mike leave the industry the next morning to apply. With his aid, she was able to Paladino (left) and Billy Dickens, assistant cook/utility, pose for a picture in prepare for the birth of her first child. break through what had been years of the Anderson's galley. And she was to write of this night as discriminatory hiring practices. And

January 1986 I LOG I 29 Check Your Medical Bills-New Plan's Program Could Pay You

For many months now you have information provided by the em­ It is also a way we can make sure dicated on a hospital bill was actually heard Union and WelfarePlan officials ployee, the Plan will reward that em­ that the hospitals bills are fair and performed or necessary. Just a little tell you about rising medical costs and ployee by paying a bonus of 25 percent justified. Lastly, it can provide nice effort on your part can save all of us overpayments and errors which have of the amount saved. bonuses forall eligible employees who money and enable the Welfare Plan to been found in bills submitted by doc­ * * * * take the time to audit their bills and go on providing quality care for Sea­ tors and hospitals. All of these costs This program has great potential. It who find errors or discrepancies. farers and their families. your Welfare Plan money. can help your Welfare Plan save a lot * * * * Ifyou have any questions about this Well, the Seafarers Welfare Plan is of money which could then be used Just remember, you are in the best new program, call the Plan's Claims now in the process of researching and to provide benefits for others. position to know if the treatment in- Department for full details. implementing various programs in an effort to contain medical costs while at the same time maintain the type of benefits and care that you have all been accustomed to receiving. As a first step, the trustees have adopted a plan which will reward em­ ployees for policing hospitals that have provided inpatient services. The plan is very simple. After a hospital confinement, all eligible employees should carefully re­ view their hospital bills. If there are any charges indicated which the em­ ployee feels are unjustified because the service or treatment was either never perfo rmed or unnecessary, the employee should notify the Plan's medical auditor in writing as quickly as possible providing all relevant in­ formation such as: the hospital, the dates of services, the procedure or Sea-Land's new facilities at the port of Tacoma, Wash. wore winter well last year. Draped in its first white cloak of snow, the treatment involved, and the charges. terminal was a November wonderland for crews sailing into the port aboard the Sea-Land Independence and Galveston, above. Ifthe Plan then succeeds in getting (Photo courtesy of Marine Digest) the hospital bill reduced due to the

Thief Steals Seafarer's Christmas, but Has Change of Heart

"My neighbors said everything had Ben Bolli labored hours from a step­ yuletide cheer. But in the early hours with their Christmas. looked so nice. My children loved the ladder stringing tinsel and Christmas of Dec. 10, as Bolli and his family "Here it is almost Christmas," Bolli decorations." lights, draping his home, fence and slept unaware, the spirit of the Grinch said, "a time of love, sharing and As he had for 10 years; Seafarer evergreen tree in his own version of of Christmas Past came and ran away giving. And they rip offmy Christmas lights. I couldn't believe it," he told a reporter for the Atlantic City Press. Bolli decided to air his heartfelt Are You Missing Important Mail? commentary on the theft to the Gal­ loway Township neighborhood where We want to make sure that you receive your If you are getting more than one copy of the he resides in New Jersey. He cut out copy of the LOG each month and other important LOG delivered to you, ifyou have changed your a large sheet of plywood, attached a mail such as W-2 Forms, Union Mail and Welfare address, or ifyour name or address is misprinted post to make a placard that could stand Bulletins. To accomplish this, please use the or incomplete, please fill in the special address in his front yard, and painted a mes­ address form on this page to update your home form printed on this page and send it to: sage . He painted a sprig of holly leaves address. and berries in the left comer of the SIU & UIW of N.A. sign. When finished, the placard was Your home address is your permanent address, Address Correction Department eight-feet square and read: "To the and this is where all official Union documents, 5201 Auth Way thief who took all our Christmas dec­ W-2 Forms, and the LOG will be mailed. Camp Springs, Maryland 20746-9971 orations from our yard, Is this what Christmas is supposed to mean to my ------kids?" A giant red question mark at

HOME ADDRESS PLEASE PRINT Date: ______the end served to emphasize his point. Several days later as the neighbor­ hood came alive for weekend errands Social Security No. and chores, Bolli found his message answered. In a brown paper bag left on the lawn, Bolli, with his children, Phone No. ages 2 and 5, and his wife Susan, Your Full Name Area Code discovered his Christmas ornaments in the bag. There was not a clue as to who had taken them (but then grinches Street Apt. or Box # City State ZIP work in strange ways). "I went to a lot of trouble decorating my house, but the thieves went to a 0 SIU 0 UIW 0 Pensioner Other ------Book Number lot of trouble taking all of them down," he told the reporter. He said he was UIW Place of Employment ------just glad they were returnedand thought his sign may have made the thieves think over what they had done. This will my permanent all offlclal Union malllngs. be address for "I think lights are just a way of Thia address should remain In the Union file unless otherwise changed by me personally. telling your neighbor Merry Christ­ mas," he said. "And that's what I am telling everyone with my lights ...

------� Merry Christmas."

30 I LOG I January 1986 1vaar1e vors1gua, veteran Seafarers WelfareandPension West Coast Seafarer Dies Plans West Coast seamen this month rating of stewardess, with an occa­ 1985 mourned the death of veteran Seafarer sional trip as a nurse. Benefits Paid-November Marie Corsiglia, whose seagoing ca­ In the early '50s she joined the then MEMBER'S BENEFITS reer spanned nearly half a century. AFL Marine Cook.s & Stewards and Nwnber Amount Bornin San Francisco in 1908, Marie helped greatly in the reorganization of

first went to sea in 1934, at the age of the West Coast steward department. Death ...... 5 $ 41,000 26, as stewardess on the passenger Then, in 1958, she went to New Hospital & Hospital Extras ...... 3,012 852,963 ship SS President Madison (Dollar York where she helped the A&G Dis­ Surgical ...... 242 170,693 Line). From then until 1942 she sailed trict organize the crew of the SS At­ Sickness and Accident @ $8.00 ...... 132 17,555 on a wide variety of passenger ships lantic in that hard-foughtbattle. When SpecialEquipment ...... 10 3,200 such as those sailing for the old Alaska she returned to the Pacific she contin­ Optical ...... 46 1,m Line, Matson Lines, Oceanic Steam­ ued to sail steadily. As Matson, Amer­ Supplemental Medicare Premium ...... 23 2,212 ship Company and others. ican President Lines and Pacific Far Dental ...... 465 11,218 East Lines withdrew from passenger service, she switched to the four liners TOT AL Benefits for Members ...... 3,935 $1,100,618 of Prudential-Grace and then Delta Lines. Since the closing of the United States Public Health Hospitals on Octo­ In 1969, at the age of 71, she became ber 1, 1981; a total of $52,534,638 has been paid out for member benefits. the oldest seafarer to qualify for a lifeboat ticket, having gone through Dependents ofMembers the same course as seamen a fraction Nwnber Amount of her age. Hospital and Hospital Extras ...... 712 $ 442,368 Finally, just five years ago, at 73, Doctors' Visits in Hospital ...... 189 . 29,139 she decided to call it quits; but only Surgical ...... 223 119,960 because of declining health. As she Maternity ...... 16 29,735 said, the spirit was still willing but the Optical anddental surgery ...... 41 2,133 flesh was too weak. And so she died, just before New Year's. TOT AL Benefits for Members' Dependents .... l, 181 $ 623,335 Only last summer Marie proudly told SIU Executive Vice President Ed Pensioners and Dependents Turner that during her 46 years at sea Number Amount Marie Corsiglia she had sailed on every American-flag passenger liner that sailed during those Hospital and Hospital Extras ...... 1,172 $ 346,551 When stewardesses were removed years on the West Coast. Doctor's Visits & Other Medical Expenses . . . 988 59,562 from the big liners at the outbreak of It is a record not likely to be sur­ Surgical ...... 53 36,009 World War II, Marie took nurse's passed by anyone. She will be missed Optical ...... 40 1,560 training so she could continue to sail not only by her family, but by hundreds SpecialEquipment ...... 19 3,555 on what were now troop ships. After of seamen who fondly remember Marie Dental ...... 5 1,542 the war she returned to her favorite Corsiglia. Supplemental Medical Premiums ...... 19 2,606

TOTAL Benefits for Pensioners and Dependents 2,796 $ 451,385 Personals -----

James L. Camp Jr. Norman Brent Gerock MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAMS...... $ 48,306

Please contact your parents, Rt. Anyone knowing the wherea­ TOTAL Seafarers WeJfare Plan Benefits Paid .... $2,223,644 1, Box 163, Mooresboro, N.C. bouts of Norman Brent (Zookie) 28114 or call (704) 657-6649. Gerock should contact his sister: TOTAL Seafarers Pemion Plan BenefitsPaid .... $1,410,332 Diane Forbes, P.O. Box 1092, Beaufort, N.C. 28516. Michael J. Cassidy J.C. Mahaffey or "Bill" Michael J. Cassidy (or anyone knowing his whereabouts) should There are serious illnesses here contact his brother, Edward J. at home, and we felt you needed Cassidy, 3541 Palm Valley Circle, to know. Please notify Eddie at . Monthly Oviedo, Fla. 32765, or phone (305) (704) 248-2539. Very urgent! 365-3046. -Rhonda & Eddie Lawson Membership Meetings Deep Sea Washlnpon Report Lakes, Inland Port Date Waters (Continued from Page 25.)

Piney Point ...... Monday, February 3 ...... 10:30 a.m. Military ducers as Japan, Singapore and South New York ...... Tuesday, February 4 ...... 10:30 a.m. Korea. * Philadelphia ...... Wednesday, February 5 ...... 10:30 a.m. Pentagon officials are worried * Canada is going ahead with plans about the effects that the recently Balti more ...... Thursday, February 6 ...... 10:30 a.m. to deregulate its maritime industry. enacted Gramm-Rudman bill will have Norfolk ...... Thursday, February 6 ...... 10:30 a.m. * Various departments in the fed­ on the military budget. They are re­ Jacksonville ...... Thursday, February 6 ...... 10:30 a.m. eral government are fighting over who fusing to commit themselves to many Algonac ...... Friday, February 7 ...... 10:30 a.m. will have the deciding input in deter­ Houston ...... Monday, February 10 ...... 10:30 a.m. new programs, including a request by mining what improvements or alter­ New Orleans ...... Tuesday, February 11 ...... 10:30 a.m. the congressional delegation of Mas­ nate plans will be made to the Panama sachusetts to "assess the concept of Mobile ...... Wednesday, February 12 ...... 10:30 a.m. Canal. converting cruise ships to troop car­ San Francisco ...... Thursday, February 13 ...... 10:30 a.m. riers" by subsidizing the construction Labor Wil mington ...... Monday, February 18 ...... 10:30 a.m. of three new passenger vessels in Mas­ Seattle ...... Friday, February 21 ...... 10:30 a.m. * The SIU is on strike to protect San Juan ...... Thursday, February 6 ...... 10:30 a.m. sachusetts shipyards. - the interests of the fishermen that it St. Louis ...... Friday, February 14 ...... 10:30 a.m. represents in New Bedford, Mass., Honolulu ...... Thur sday, February 13 ...... 10:30 a.m. International the largest fishing port in the country. Duluth ...... Wednesday, February 12 ...... 10:30 a.m. The strike is expected to cost the city Gloucester...... Tuesday, February 18 ...... I0:30 a.m. * There has been a severe decline $1 million a day (see story page 1). Jersey City ...... Wednesday, February 19 ...... 10:30 a.m. in the world shipbuilding market, which . *SONAT Marine has been put on has even affected such leading pro- the unfair list of the AFL-CIO.

January 1986I LOG / 11 ru ::SL \JUI1 1�, r11 ::SL v�I v�u Piney Point Offers Qualified Pensioners Housing

Rooms Available 50 At Union's Center Form No. P-125 Original l/86 arc being opportunity for hous­ SEAFPENSIOARERSNER HOUBENEFITSING APPLICATION at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg the Seafarers Lundeberg School of Seamanship School of Seamanship in Piney Point . in Piney Point, Maryland Md. Fifty large rooms have been set aside for eligible pensioners. and ap­ plications are being accepted on a first­ For Further. information, or for help with this form, contact Seafarers Pension Department, 5201 Auth come, first-servedbasis . The 50 avail­ Wa y, Camp Springs, Md. 20746 or call: (301) 899-0675. able rooms will be available for single pensioners and for pensioners with Note: Fill this form out completely. Be sure to sign this fo rm. their spouses. The program includes room and

I. Pensioner's Name: ------Soc. Sec. No. board and unlimited use of all recre­ (Please Print) D D D DD DODD ational facilities. All rooms are large

Address ------doubles and include cable television. Street Apt. or Box N. City State ZIP The housing program is available to all pensioners except those on De­ What type of monthly pension benefit are you receiving? 2. ferred Vesting Pension and those who have accepted the Lump Sum Buyout. D Early Normal D Normal D Disability Pensioners who qualify forthe pro­ gram will be required to sign over two­ Note: Individuals who are receiving deferred vested pension benefits, or who have opted thirds (2/3 ) of their monthly pension to receive a lump sum pension benefit are not eligible. payments and two-thirds (713) of their monthly Social Security payments to the Seafarers Pension Plan. Because 3. Are you presently married? D Yes D No this will not cover the fu ll costs of the housing, the Seafarers Pension Plan If "Yes," please provide your spouse's name: ------will cover the expenses with a supple­ (If you have not already provided the Seafarers Pension Plan with a copy of your marriage certificate. please attach a copy to this form.) mental payment to the SHLSS. For an application to take advantage

4. What is the amount of your current monthly pension benefit from this Plan? $ ______of this new housing program. pension­ ers should write to: Pensioner's Hous­ ing, Seafarers Pension Plan, 5201 Auth What is the current amount of your monthly Social Security check') $ __ _ Way, Camp Springs, Md. 20746. (Please attach a copy of your most recent Social Security check.) For fu rther information on the pro­ gram , call TOLL FREE: l-800-345- If you wish to take advantage of this benefit you must agree to sign over two-thirds (2/3) 21 12, or call (301) 899-0675. of the monthly pension benefits that you are or will be receiving from the Seafarers I ,/I Pension Plan, and two-thirds (2/3) of the monthly benefits you are or will be receiving '®'"U"o from the Social Security Administration. If you agree to these conditions and are interested ..,_,o;,• TH£ '>""�,.,. .. in applying for this benefit, please sign and date the statement below. i

I, , hereby agree to have two-thirds (2/3) of my monthly pension benefits and two­ thirds (2/3) of my Social Security benefits apply toward the costs of my room and board at the Seafarers Training & Recreation Center, located at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point. Md. Do You Have Claims Questions? If you have any questions about your Welfare claims,

When completed, mail this application to: contact your port representa­ Seafarers Pension Dept. tive, your area vice president, Seafarers International Union Signed ------· ----- or call this toll-free number: 5261 Auth Way 1-800-345-2 112. Camp Springs, MD 20674 Date

(Continued F' rom Page 1.) New Bedford Strike Shuts Harbor catch. On draggers, which are rela­ hours for weeks at a time for practi­ "The captain told us, 'You're not "We told them that we'd go to the tively large, they receive 58 percent; cally nothing. supposed to be getting this, but here wall for them, and we have," said on scallopers, that figure is 64 percent. Thomas Callahan, who was on the is $100,'' said Mr. Callahan, who has Caffey. "At the same time that this The uncertainty of this method has line the first day of the strike, told a been a fishermanfo r eight years. Re­ strike is occurring, the SIU is working raised some problems. "We are not New York Times reporter about a 16- flecting on being paid $100 fo r the on many different levels to protect the sure if the owners are paying their day voyage from which he had just entire trip , he said: "You should av­ interests of the fishermen here. workers their fair share , or even if returned. erage at least $100 a day. Then it "We have a Washington staff that they are making adequate contribu­ "Callahan ... said he was doing works out to a minimum wage deal. " is closely monitoring the situation in tions to the pension and welfare plans, 12 hours l�f work and taking six hours During the course of this strike, the the fishing industry," said Caffey. "The which are also based on a percentage <�fl The boat l he was on/ returned SIU has picked up support. It has Commerce Department recently ruled of the catch,'' said SIU Port Agent with a cargo of about 5,000 pounds, taken pledge cards on 14 new vessels. that the Canadian government was Joe Piva. a poor haul. Aft er the j(Jod, fu el and This comes after a two-year period unfairly subsidizing its fishing indus­ The boat owners want to reduce the ice were paid fo r and the owner's when the SlU tried to organize the try. Well, this Union's research staff percentage of profits that fishermen percentage deducted, there was nearly fishermen in this historic fishing port, was coming up with the figures to receive from the catch. Yet as it is, nothing left fo r the crew of six to who were represented by a union that show this. It was a number one prior­ some fishermen are working long, hard divide.'' had few, if any, ties to the sea. ity."

32 I LOG I January 1986 SIU Streamlines Benefit Application Process r------, Form No. P-116 I Rev. 8/85 I Faster Payment, APPLICATION FOR BASIC AND MAJOR MEDICAL BENEFITS­ I HOSPITAL-SURGICAL-MEDICAL-MEMBER OR DEPENDENT I Better Service I SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN, 5201 AUTH WAY, CAMP SPRINGS, MARYLAND 20746 I I To Membership 1

SEAFARERS BENEFIT APPLICATIClaim No.(ON______) : The Seafarers Welfare Plan is tion 1. To be co plet.ed b Member or Depend t I I continuing to update and mod­ s . . o. OOD DD O OOD: ernize its Claims Department so I that medical payments to doc­ ·------' tors and hospitals can be han­ I dled quickly and efficiently. 2. ------·· I Two things are being done. Date y u first w rtcd for I I All claims are now being proc­ I /Inland Company ------Date Employment Terminated ______...... I I essed by computer so that we I I t 3. ELlOIBILJTY: Attach proof of 120 day car and Ida worlted in od lnl nd I can more accurately and quickly I prov;de pay u � beauachcd for p I I I process the claims of SIU mem­ COMPANY VE EL DAT 0 DATE FF I . bers and their dependents. I t We have streamlined the I SEAFARERS BENEFIT AP­ I I PLICATION form to make it

tc: _ __ easier for our members to fill 4. Patient' Name --- Birth Mo. - Day Year ., S.S. No. 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 out, and quicker to process. dd All ofthis will mean that med­ Relali nship to Member ------ical bills will be processed and I authorize thereleaseof any � 5. Have You Filed Previously for This Claim yes noO paid in a much shorter time. 0 Information necesaafytoprocese. thlS claim. 6. Is p tient covered by any other Medical Health Insurance yes 0 no 0 You Must Use the N ------If yes, advise: ame of Insurance Carrier New Form ' 7. Is claim foran accident? yes 0 no 0 ------I I Effective October I , 1985, SIU How and where did it happen? ------�-- I members must use the new I ------SEAFARERS BENEFIT AP­ .1 or Member Dependents ignatUre Date I PLICATION form. The new forms will be available in all Section 2. Physician's statement. (Complete this statement in all cases.) SIU halls. I. Patient's Name ------S.S. No. O DD DD DDDD To make it easier, all that you 2. Date patient first treated for present disability ______19 __ Home __ Office__ or your dependent need do is fill out the top half of the form. 3. Diagnosis ------(Please furnish essential details) But, make sure you include all 4. ls disability a result of pregnancy? yes D no D information, including PROOF 5. ln your opinion, is disability caused by the patient's employment yes D no D OF ELIGIBILITY.

If so, please explain why ______If you have any question about 6. ls this person under your professional care at present� yes D no D If not, release�------19__ your claim, contact your SIU 7. (a) Give dates of treatment at Hospita.______Port Representative, or your

(b) Give dates of treatment at Home or Office______Area Vice President, or call this Toll-Free Phone Number: 1-800- Charge per call $.______Total medical charge $.______345-2112.

Physician's Name ------Date ------19 ____ _ (Please Print) Address ------Two Thin You Must Do No. Street City State Zip Code Telephone Number______Physician's Signature______• All claims mu t be ubmit­ . ted within 180 day from th Federal I.D. No. ------Physician's S.S. No. ------· . date of di charg from the ho - . COMPLETE IF HOSPITAL CONFINED pitaJ · and Entered ------at __ AM ____, ___ 19__ and left at __ AM ___, ___ 19 __ 8. , You mu t 611 ut I • Section 9. If hospital charges exceed $5,000.00admission HOSPITAL TOTAL CHARGES $,______of thi claim includ­ and discharge summary is required . PAYMENT CREDITS-PATIENT $______mpl telydeep, PAYMENT CREDITS-OTHER CARRIER(SJ $.______ingproo/of eligibility di charge and pay tub · in� BALANCE DUE ______$, land-pay tub . COMPLETE IF SURGERY PERFORMED OR EMERGENCY ROOM TREATMENT 10. Nature of Operation Here Are Your Operatio,..______by Dr. ______SIU Area Vice Presidents II. Number of swures �accidental iajury ______East Coast: Leon Hall, (7 18) 12. Date of 499-6600. Operatio.�_ _ /__ 19 __ Where? Home__ Office __ Hospital.__ Gulf Coast: Joe Sacco, 1-800-

Amount of your charge for this operation $______325-2532. West Coast: George Mc­ NOTE: If more than one surgery performed, show charge for each. Cartney: (4 15) 543-5855.

13. Remarks ______Inland & Great Lakes: Mike - Sacco, (3 14) 752-6500 �------�

January 1986 I LOG I 33 born in Westfield, Mass. and was a sister, Jennie Sczypiorski, all of Phil­ ident of Oklahoma City, Okla. Surviv­ Deep Sea resident of Russell, Mass. Surviving adelphia. ing are his widow, Betty Jean; his Pensioner Anas­ are his father, Joseph of Westfield; a parents, J. M. and Margareta Roberts tacio Pascua Bar­ brother, Richard, an.d two sisters, Pensioner Niko­ of Hancerville, Ala.; an uncle, Henry roga, 84, passed Donna Sue Foley of Westfield and dem Olen, 73 , passed L. Bonner of Montgomery, Ala., and _ away on Nov. 27, Lillian M. Kuczynski of Russell. away on Dec. 2, a cousin, Bobbie J. McCouck of Rising 1985. Brother Bar­ 1985. Brother Olen Fawn, Ga. roga joined the SIU joined the SIU in in the port of Seattle Pensioner San- 1944 in the port of Pensioner Clilford F. Udell, 75 , passed in %5 sailing as a tiago M. Laurente, I New York sailing as away from pneumonia in the Ferry ', cook. He first sailed 89, passed away from a bosun. He worked Cty. Hospital, Republic, Wash. on on the West Coast in 1960. Seafarer natural causes in the on the Sea-Land Sept. 20, 1985. Brother Udell joined Barroga was born in the Philippines .· Lutheran Medical ::� Shoregang, Port Elizabeth, N.J. from the SIU-merged Marine Cooks and and was a resident of Seattle. Surviv­ Center, Brooklyn, 1966 to 1968. Seafarer Olen was on Stewards Union in the port of San ing are his widow. Eulalia of Acoje N.Y. on Oct. 27, the picket line in the 1946 General Francisco in 1957 sailing as a porter. Mines. Zambales, P.I. and a son, Ro­ 1985. Brother Lau­ Maritime strike. Born in Poland, he He first sailed on the West Coast in meo of Lipay, Santa Cruz, Zambales. rente joined the SIU was a resident of fovemess, Fla. Sur­ 1942. Seafarer Udell was born in Sul­ in 1947 in the port of Baltimore sailing viving are his widow, Vera; three tan, Wash. and was a resident of as a chief cook. He hit the bricks in daughters, Kathryn, Christine of New Wauconda, Wash. Cremation took Pensioner Be- the 1946 General Maritime beef. Sea­ York City and Eleanor, and another place in the Hennessey Smith Cre­ .. nigno Cortez, 75, died farer Laurente was born in Aklan, P.I. matory, Spokane, Wash. Surviving are on Dec . 15, 1985. relative, Mrs. N. Olenwrites, also of and was a resident of Brooklyn and his widow, Mary; a son, Richard of Brother Cortez New York City. Malima Capis, P.I. Burial was in the Medford, Ore., and two daughters, joined the SIU in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Sur­ Nola Enos and Mary Brusha. 1944 in the port of vivin3 is his widow, Caridad. Antonio Oouendo, 63 , succumbed to Philadelphia sailing arteriosclerosis at home in Los An­ Webster Garfield Williams, 61, died as an AB. He began geles, Calif. on Nov. 16, 1985. Brother on Dec. 11, 1985. Brother Williams • sailing in 1940. Sea­ Pensioner Clodis Oouendo joined the SIU in the port joined the SIU in the port of Boston, farer Cortez hit the bricks in both the Marceaux, 76, suc­ of San Francisco in 1953 sailing as a Mass. in 1955 sailing as a recertified 1946 General Maritime beef and the cumbed to a liver ail­ room steward. He last shipped out of chief steward. He graduated from the 1947 Isthmian strike. A native of Puerto "' ment in the Provi- the port of Wilmington, Calif. He was Union's Recertified Chief Stewards Rico, he was a resident of Nuevo Rio dence Hospital, born in Puerto Rico. Burial was in the Program in 1981. Seafarer Williams Piedras, P.R. Surviving are his widow, Mobile on Nov. I, Angeles Abbey Cemetery, Compton, also sailed during the Vietnam and Maria and two children. 1985. Brother Mar­ Calif. Surviving is his widow, Alice. < Korean Wars. Born in Chelsea, Mass. , ceauxjoined the SIU he was a resident of Mobile. Surviving ...a\ 1 in 1949 in the port of Pensioner William are his widow, Helen and his mother. Leland Creamer died on Nov. 30, Mobile sailing as an AB. He was born Reid, 68 , died on Elizabeth of Mobile. 1985. Brother Creamer joined the SIU­ in Kaplan, La. and was a resident of Nov. 24, 1985. merged Marine Cooks and Stewards Bayou La Barte, La. Interment was Brother Reid joined Union in the port of San Francisco. in the South Memorial Cemetery, Bi­ the SIU in the port He retired in 1966. Seafarer Creamer loxi, Miss .. Surviving is his widow, of Tampa, Fla. in was a resident of San Francisco. Sur­ Marie . 1958. He sailed as viving is his widow. deck maintenance. Great Lakes Pensioner Stephen Seafarer Reid was a Pensioner Joseph Joseph Mosakowski , veteran of the U.S. Navy during World "Joe" Cuccia Jr. , 60, 69, died of a heart War II. A native of Parish. Fla. he succumbed to can­ . • ) attack in the North- was a resident of Palmetto, Fla. Sur­ viving are his mother, Nora and a Pensioner David Henry, 79, passed cer in the St. Charles ;I• east Hospital, Phil­ , sister, Rosa Mathews, both of Pal­ away on Dec. 1, 1985. Brother Henry Hospital, New Or­ , adelphia on Nov. 14, metto. joined the Union in 1943 in the port leans on Dec. 8, 1985. . 1985. Brother Mo- sakowski joined the .. of New York. He sailed as an oiler Brother Cuccia . . for Kinsman Marine. He last shipped joined the SIU in the ·· SIU in 1940 in the Hafford Wright . out of the port of Buffalo, N.Y. in port of New Orleans port of New York sailing as a bosun. · Roberts, 60, died on in 1950. He sailed as a bellboy, laun­ He walked the picket line in the 1946 Dec. 9, 1985. Brother 1973. Laker Henry also worked as a butcher. Born in Ireland, he was a dryman, waiter, linenkeeper and night, General Maritime beef. Seafarer Mo­ . .,...... ,_...... Roberts joined the deck, smoking room and passenger sakowski was born in Philadelphia and SIU in 1944 in the naturalized U.S. citizen and a resident bedroom steward. He also sailed for was a resident there. Burial was in the port of Mobile sail­ of Buffalo. Surviving is a brother, John Whitman Towing, Coyle Lines from St. Peter's Cemetery, Philadelphia. ing as a QMED. He of the Bronx, N.Y. 1947 to 1948 and worked on the New Surviving are his mother, Petonela was born in Ala­ Orleans Delta Shoregang from 1966 to Figlewski; a brother, Edward and a bama and was a res- Pensioner Samuel Olaf Lysdal, 84, 1970. Seafarer Cuccia walked the picket succumbed to heart failure in the Ala­ lines in both the 1946 General Mari­ chua Hospital, Gainesville, Fla. on time strike and the 1947 Isthmian beef. Oct. 30, 1985. Brother Lysdal joined And he was a former member of the the Union in 1942 in the port of Frank­ MAW, Local 653. Cuccia was born in fort, Mich. He sailed for the Ann New Orleans and was a resident of Arbor (Mich.) Railroad Car Ferries Harvey, La. Cremation took place in from 1942 to 1963, the year of his retirement. He was born in Frankfort the Tharf-Southen Crematory, New Orleans. Surviving are his widow, and was a resident of Inglis, Fla. Cremation took place in the Roberts Shirley; two sons, Guy and Merrill; Crematory, Ocala, Fla. Surviving is a four daughters, Debra Karl of Harvey, Pamela, Donna and J .J. Cuccia, and daughter, Agnes Clark, also of Inglis. his mother, Anna of New Orleans. Pensioner Andrew Rebrik, 73, passed away on Oct. 26, 1985. Brother Rebrik Chester Walter Gietek, 62, died on joined the Union in 1947 in the port Nov. 26, 1985. Brother Gietek joined of Detroit sailing as an AB and wheels­ the SIU in 1943 in the port of New man. He began sailing during World York sailing as an AB and in the War II. Laker Rebrik was born in Pennsylvania and was a resident of steward department. He helped to or­ Funeral services were held Sept. 9 aboard a Sea-Land Service ship for Julius Bielski, OS. ganize the tug Sheridan (Sheridan Attending the ceremony were (counterclockwise from top left): James Boss, 3rd cook; Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Surviving is a sister, Transportation). Seafarer Gietek was Don Ikert, AB; John Glenn, bosun, and Dave Scott. Ann of Wilkes-Barre.

34 I LOG I January 1986 I exas c..;1ty, I exas this trip. A motion was stressed the importance of contributing to made to have a microwave oven in the SPAD for job security. "It is the only thing crew's lounge; another to keep all areas helping us keep any ships at all." One Dllaes� of Shllps llee�llnas nice and clean; another to exchange mov­ suggestion was made to improve the qual­ ies this trip as they have been aboard for ity of the food. It was suggested that the over six months. A vote of thanks was MEBA food list, dated 1964, be followed given to the steward department for a as a guide. The steward reported that the wonderful Thanksgiving Day dinner. Crew­ luncheon menus were requested by the members observed one minute of silence captain but that he did not have any ob­ LNG AQUARIUS (Energy Transpor­ Brother Silva, for his job of representing in memory of our departed brothers and jection to a larger menu if that would satisfy tation Corp.), November 30-Chairman the members throughout the voyage. An­ sisters. Next port: Texas City, Texas. the crew. The steward also said that he Donald L. Rood ; Secretary L. Conlon; En­ other vote of thanl

January 1986 I LOG I 35 Eugene victor uayoen, t>4,Jomea the SIU in the port of New Orleans in 1956. He sailed as a steward utility, steward delegate and ship' s delegate . Brother Hayden began sailing in 1947 out of the port of Tampa. He was born in Pass Chris­ Deep Sea tian, Miss. and is a resident of Biloxi, Miss. Reuben C. Blackburn, 63, joined the SIU in the port of San Francisco Charles Maurice Hill, 67, joined in 1951. He sailed as a recertified the SIU in the port of Norfol k in chief steward and as a chief cook 1964 sailing as an AB . Brother Hill for 35 years. Brother Blackbum was born in Nebraska and is a was graduated from the Union' s resident of Norfolk. Recertified Chief Stewards Pro­ gram in 1980. He is also a graduate of the University of California. Sea­ farer Blackbum is a veteran of the U.S. Army during World War II. A native of Wilkesboro, N .C., he Tom Endel Kelsey, 60,joined the is a resident of San Francisco. SIU in the port of Philadelphia in 1950 sailing as an AB and recertified Fishing has been good for Reino J. Pelaso (P-8) bosun. Brother Kelsey graduated of Vallejo, Calif. He caught 15 salmon (6 to 22 lbs. each) as well as lots of rockfish and sturgeon. Jimmie Dale, 70, joined the SIU from the Union' s Recertified Bo­ Pensioner Pelaso wishes to say hello to all his old suns Program in 1957. He last sailed in the port of New York in 1967 shipmates. "I hope everyone has a Merry Christ­ sailing as an AB. Brother Dale be­ 1 out of the port of San Francisco. mas and that the New Year will be good to all my gan sailing in 1942. He is a wounded ·· Born in Estonia, U.S.S.R., he is a friends." World War II veteran of the U.S. naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Army' s 4th Combat Engineers Bat­ Sparks, Nev. talion. Born in the Philippine Is., Brat Lakes James "Blackie" Martin, 67, he is a naturalized U.S. citizen. August Sakevich, 65 , joined the joined the SIU in 1947 in the port Dale is a resident of Camden, N .J. Union in the port of Buffalo, N.Y. of New York. He sailed as a FOWT tr r-8- in 1964. He sailed as a coalpasser and chief pumpman. Brother Mar­ for Kinsman Marine in 1961 and tin worked on the Sea-Land Shor­ Daniel Dean, 76, joined the SIU 7 h i s 1 egang, Port Elizabeth, N .J. from · in 1943 in the port of New York. c e r o a r 1970 to 1978. He is a wounded l !� � �:�� �; �:�;� �� � � ��;:� He sailed as an AB and cook for porter, deckhand and FOWT for veteran of the U.S. Army during the Sea-Land Shoregang, Port Eliz­ the Boland and Reis Steamship the Korean War. Seafarer Martin abeth, N.J. in 1972. Brother Dean companies. In 1944 he began sail­ was born in Scotland, is a natural­ hit the bricks in both the 1946 Gen­ ing, first out of the ort of Duluth, ized U.S. citizen, and resides in p eral Maritime beef and the 1947 Minn. and lately out of the port of Oakridge, N .J. Isthmian strike. He was born in Philadelphia. Laker Sakevich is a Newark, N .J. and is a resident of Patrick Ignatius Rogers Sr. , 56, veteran of the U.S. Army's Infantry Neptune, N.J. joined the SIU in 1947 in the port Corps during World War II. A na­ of New York sailing as a QMED. tive of Scranton, Pa. , he is a resi­ Brother Rogers last shipped out of dent there. William James Dunnigan, 78, joined the SIU in the port of Jacksonville. He walked 1945 in the port of Baltimore sailing as a chief the picket lines in both the 1946 Gerald Francis Scott, 62, joined electrician. Brother Dunnigan began sailing in 1934. General Maritime strike and the the Union in the port of Buffalo, He was born in Maryland and is a resident of 1947 Isthmian beef. Seafarer Rog­ N. Y. in 1961 sailing as a deckhand Baltimore. ers was born in New York City and and oiler for the Great Lakes Dredge is a resident of Titusville, Fla. and Dock Co. from 1957 to 1985. Brother Scott rode the tug McGuire Aquilino Villariza, 66, joined the (Great Lakes D.& D.) in 1976 ano Dennis Harold Gibson, 65 , joined SIU in 1947 in the port of New worked as an inspector for the Re­ the SIU in the port of Wilmington, York sailing as a cook. Brother public Steel Co. from 1955 to 1957. Calif. in 1956 sailing as an AB. Villariza was on the picket lines in He also was a former member of Brother Gibson last sailed out of both the 1946 General Maritime the Teamsters Union, Local 336, the port of Jacksonville. He was strike and the 1947 Isthmian beef. driving a truck from 1948-1954. born in Stonega, Va. and is a resi­ Laker Scott is a veteran of the U.S. dent of Jacksonville. He last shipped out of the port of San Francisco. Born in Iloilo City, Army during World War II. Born P.I., he is a resident of San Fran­ in Cleveland, Ohio, he is a resident cisco. of Parma, Ohio.

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36 I LOG I January 1986 CL -Company/Lakes Directo ry of Ports L -Lakes NP -Non Priority Dispatchers Report for Great Lakes Frank Drozak, President DEC. 1-31, 1985 *TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED **REGISTERED ON BEACH Ed Turner, Exec. Vice President All Groups All Groups All Groups Joe DiGiorgio, Secretary Class CL Class L Class NP Class CL Class L Class NP Class CL Class L Class NP Leon Hall, Vice President Port DECK DEPARTMENT Angus "Red" Campbell, Vice President Mike Sacco, Algonac...... 5 19 6 6 37 16 4 6 5 Vice President Joe Sacco, Vice President Port ENGINE DEPARTMENT George McCartney, Vice President Algonac ...... 2 6 1 21 3 5 0 Roy A. Mercer, Vice President Port STEWARD DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS Algonac ...... 2 3 0 13 3 0 2 0 5201 Auth Way Port ENTRY DEPARTMENT Camp Springs, Md. 20746 Algonac ...... 13 14 11 0 0 0 3 15 8 (301) 899-0675 Totals All Departments ...... 10 42 18 8 71 22 8 28 13 ALGONAC, Mich. *"Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month . 520 St. Clair River Dr. 48001 **"Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month . (313) 794-4988 BALTIMORE, Md. 1216 E. Baltimore St. 21202 (301) 327-4900 Dispatchers Report for Deep Sea CLEVELAND, Ohio 1290 Old River Rd. 441 13 DEC. 1-31, 1985 *TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED **REGISTERED ON BEACH (21 6) 621 -5450 All Groups All Groups Trip All Groups DULUTH, Minn. Class A • Class B Class C Class A Class B Class C Reliefs Class A Class B Class C 705 Medical Arts Building 55802 Port DECK DEPARTMENT (21 8) 722-41 10 Gloucester ...... 6 5 0 2 1 0 0 9 5 0 GLOUCESTER, Mass. New Yo rk ...... 58 7 1 64 19 0 0 104 27 0 Ph iladelphia ...... 12 6 0 5 4 0 0 14 12 0 11 Rogers St. 01930 Baltimo re ...... 15 11 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 (61 7) 283-1 167 No rfolk ...... 11 8 1 9 5 1 0 28 29 0 Mobile ...... 13 6 0 9 2 0 0 25 8 0 HONOLULU, Hawaii New Orleans ...... 60 6 4 35 23 8 0 105 17 8 636 Cooke St. 96813 Jacksonville ...... 41 7 1 43 42 1 8 71 23 0 Sa n Francisco ...... 34 13 1 21 5 0 2 68 23 1 (808) 523-5434 Wilmington ...... 16 6 0 15 5 0 4 49 9 0 HOUSTON, Tex. Seattle ...... 34 4 0 23 6 0 1 60 7 0 Puerto Rico ...... 17 6 0 14 5 0 0 34 1 0 1221 Pierce St. 77002 Ho nolulu ...... 7 25 3 6 18 0 7 5 19 4 (713) 659-5152 Housto n ...... 43 5 0 3 11 0 4 86 8 0 St. Louis ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . Piney Point ...... 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 2 2 0 331 5 Liberty St. 32206 Totals ...... 367 117 11 262 150 10 26 660 190 13 {904) 353-0987 Port ENGINE DEPARTMENT JERSEY CITY, N.J. Glouceste r ...... 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 New York ...... 51 10 0 33 4 0 0 107 15 0 99 Montgomery St. 07302 . Ph iladelphia ...... 7 4 0 2 1 0 0 12 6 0 (201) 435-9424 Baltimore ...... 13 1 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 Norfolk...... 7 9 0 6 2 0 0 18 16 0 MOBILE, Ala. Mobile ...... 10 4 0 4 1 0 0 14 7 0 1640 Dauphin Island Pkwy. 36605 New Orleans ...... 38 10 1 31 12 1 0 83 12 2 Jacksonville ...... 25 5 0 26 7 0 5 44 8 0 (205) 478-0916 Sa n Fra ncisco ...... 27 5 2 10 2 0 2 149 10 5 NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Wilmington ...... 13 8 0 12 6 0 6 35 21 0 Seattle ...... 17 9 0 12 4 0 1 41 15 0 50 Union St. 02740 .. . . . ·Puerto Rico ...... 16 2 0 11 1 0 0 19 3 0 (617) 997-5404 Honolulu ...... 4 16 2 4 8 2 4 3 20 4 Houston ...... 27 4 0 16 5 0 3 57 4 0 NEW ORLEANS, La. St. Louis ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 630 Jackson Ave. 701 30 Piney Po int ...... 3 5 0 2 1 0 0 3 5 0 Totals ...... 258 94 6 176 56 3 21 586 146 11 (504) 529-7546 Por t STEWARD DEPARTMENT Toll Free: 1-800-325-2532 Gloucester ...... 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 NEW YORK, N.Y. New York .... 19 4 0 30 22 0 0 44 8 0 675 4 Ave., Brooklyn 11232 Philadelphia ... . 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 Baltimore ...... 11 9 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 (71 8) 499-6600 ...... Norfolk ...... 7 5 0 3 5 2 0 11 4 0 NORFOLK, Va. Mobile ...... 9 5 0 6 1 0 0 16 12 0 New Orleans ...... 25 3 1 18 11 2 0 60 19 0 115 Third St. 23510 Jacksonville ...... 19 4 0 16 21 1 4 23 6 0 (804) 622-1892 Sa n Fra ncisco ...... 40 6 1 34 7 0 4 99 10 1 Wilmington ...... 7 1 0 17 1 0 4 21 10 0 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. . Seattle ...... 15 6 2 35 5 0 0 38 12 2 S. St. Pue rto Rico ...... 6 3 0 6 2 0 0 9 4 0 2604 4 19148 Honolulu ...... 8 53 41 20 154 220 53 5 29 33 (215) 336-3818 Houston ...... 17 0 0 15 2 0 2 28 1 0 PINEY POINT, Md. St. Louis ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Piney Point ...... 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 St. Mary's County 20674 Totals ...... 185 105 46 205 236 225 67 356 121 36 (301) 994-0010 Port ENTRY DEPARTMENT SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Gloucester ...... 1 2 0 1 7 0 New Yo rk ...... 26 40 2 49 75 9 350 Fremont St. 941 05 Philadelphia ...... 7 10 0 13 9 0 (415) 543-5855 Baltimore ...... 3 4 0 0 0 0 No rfol k ...... 4 8 3 11 21 0 SANTURCE, P.R. Mobile ...... 3 8 0 5 14 0 1057 Fernandez Juncos St. New Orleans ...... 17 20 5 248 48 10 Jacksonv ille ...... 24 18 1 29 31 5 Stop 16 00907 Sa n Fra ncisco ...... 41 14 0 116 25 4 (809) 725-6960 Wilmington ...... 10 9 0 33 31 0 Seattle ...... 20 15 3 38 44 5 SEATTLE, Wash. Puerto Rico ...... 17 10 0 19 16 3 Ho nolulu ...... 13 181 242 11 125 161 2505 1 Ave. 98121 Houston ...... 12 7 0 24 16 1 (206) 441-1960 St. Louis ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Piney Po int ...... 0 3 0 0 7 0 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Totals ...... 198 349 256 0 0 0 0 597 469 198 4581 Gravois Ave. 63 116 (314) 752-6500 Totals All Departments ...... 1,008 665 319 643 442 238 114 2,199 926 258 SUBIC BAY, Rep. of Philippines *"Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month. 34 21st St., W. Bajac Bajac **"Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month. Olongapo City C-2201 222-3533 Shipping in the month of December was up from the month of November. A total of 1,437 jobs were WILMINGTON, Calif. shipped on SIU-contracted deep sea vessels. Of the 1,437 jobs shipped, 643 jobs or about 45 percent 408 Avalon Blvd. 90744 were taken by "A" seniority members. The rest were filled by "B" and "C" seniority people. A total of 114 (213) 549-4000 trip relief jobs were shipped. Since the trip relief program began on April 1, 1982, a total of 2,053 jobs have been shipped.

January 1986 I LOG I 37 "The SIU-A Great Start . . . '

I have been meaning to write for a long time to thank the SID for a great start in my professional career. I joined the Union in 1971 and later got my "A" book and QMED ratings. SHLSS was very good [to me ] ... I later received a Logan scholarship and got a B.S.M.E. at the University of Virgin.ia in Charlottesville. I sat for my 3rd asst. license and got it, thanks to all I learned in the SID and at Piney Point ... To The Since I stopped sailing in 1979, I have worked for Newport News Shipbuilding, American Bureau of Shipping and Bailey Controls (a ditor division of Babcock & Wilcox). I am currently planning to obtain a Professional Engineer's license as mechanical engineer in Virginia. The test will be rough, but I'll give it my best shot! This is no ''bull": you people have a great, progressive organization with a very astute president and executive board. Look at the other unions as they bite the dust because they can't adapt. Go to the Point and learn all you can. You don't have to be an Einstein to get a degree or a license-you just have to study, ask questions and pay attention. I was so happy when I got the license, I was naturally "high" for a 'The Merchant Marine and Veterans' month.I Who needs drugs? Benefits ...' You have got a hell of a Union-be proud of it ... I miss not going to sea, but I will always remember my seafaring the LongviewDs.ily News, Friday, Dec. 1985, th.ere was an In 6, days and all the great shipmates. Maybe I'll take a cruise with you all article mentioning th.at seamen who were involved in Operation sometime! Mulberry on the "Block" ships during WWII are entitled to apply for service d1scharge certiflcates which will make th.em el1gible for such veterans' beneftts as home loans, medical care and burial in a national .&..:a.''W oottr'Woodhouae W-10&8 cemetery. Bewport Bewa, Va. The criteria for this entitlement is that they served under direct military control, performed a uniquely military mission in a combat zone-a mission that is not considered a mission of the merchant marine. 'Bncouragement Pays ' I know th.at the SID has been seeking this type of recognition for Off ... seamen, but I haven't heard of such being applied to those involved in I would like to express my thanks to the faculty and staff at SHLSS similar operations. Two which I was personally involved in were the for their patience and assistance during my stay th.ere. Murmansk run and the invasion of Saipan. Those who were sailing in Aft.er completion of the sea.lift. course in August, I entered the tail­ those days will recall that we were compelled by the military to take end of the 3rd mate's course and took celestial navigation and radar gunnery practice, which I don't consider a mission of the merchant observer courses. During th.at time, with the encouragement of marine. instructors Jim Brown, John Mason and many others, I began testing for an ocean license. At this time, I'm happy to say, I have passed all the exam sections and need only qualify in Morse Code. I could not J"raternally yours, have done it without their help. l'red '1'. Killer I would also like to acknowledge the sta.:trat the hotel, especially canJ.e Bock, Wash. Eddie Gildersleeve, who made our stay a plea.sure. My wife and I were made to feel at home by everyone we came in contact with. Thanks again to the SID and everyone at SHLSS.

'Veteran Status for Seamen • • • ' WWII 'l'hom.aa Mylan. M-2460 Enclosed is an article from TheSun (Bremerton, Wash.), Dec. 6, 1985. What is the veteran status for the remain.ing merchant seamen who sailed during WWII? Or is there a status? It would seem this might be 'New System Proves Effective ...' a wedge in the door .... I want to thank our Welfare Plan for the newly-installed system Enclosed is a modest contribution to SPAD. which made the reimbursement of our drug expenses faster than it used to be. Sincerely, I know that other "old timers" on pension join me in this sentiment. Barl Robert caughie

Bellair, Wash. Yours fraternally, P.M. B.eyes Jlobile, .Ala. 'Proud of the SIU ...'

This is to let you all know that I still fe el very proud of the SID, and any time you may need anything from me, I am at your service. 'Greetings and Thanks from the I want to say hello to Frank, Red and all the boys th.at I worked with Garners ...' in my 29 years of sailing and working with the SID. I also want to say hello to all the shipmates I had through the years. At 73, I still fe el I would like to express my sincere young. thanks in regards to the insurance payments on my wife's hospital bill for Enclosed is a $25 donation to SPAD. the birth of our son, Joshua. There are ,, really no words that can tell you how Jose s. Coils C- 11 grateful I am. Santurce, P.B. A special thanks to Red, Joe, Mike and George for talking with me on the phone concerning myjo b and insurance.

'A Note of Ap preciation ...' Jimmie Garner Gadsden, Ala. I know th.at the Alpena General Hospital received money from the Seafarers Welfare Plan. My debt is payed and I am very grateful. I hope expresses sincere appreciation to all of you folks. this my Joshua. Wizy ne Garner Merry Christmas-Happy New Year. lO months

Bichard J. Piasbowski P.S. Joshua said to say thank youfor the $50 savings bond-and Merry Alpena, Mich. Christmas!

38 I LOG I January 1986 SPAD Editorials ''That's a good question '' One letter has more influence in Washington, it has been said, than petitions or any other form of communication to members of Congress, Keeps Us Playing bureaus and committees. While it is difficult to believe such a statement, a recent breakthrough for With th e Big Boys merchant mariners who now have veteran's status for Operation Mulberry , was the result of letters as reported in The New York Times, Dec . 6, 1985. Raymond Carreau of Tacoma, Wash. wrote several letters on the subject of veteran's status, and his perseverence paid off. He wrote his first letter Political action donations are com­ Should the structure of PAC dona­ in 1982. It took three years to get results, but it was worth it . We all owe ing under increasing fire because some tions be reformed? When we look at Carreau a vote of thanks. critics charge these donations (which the $19.3 million from NCPAC, a vir­ totaled $113 million during the last ulent and rabid anti-labor organiza­ The question that remains unanswered is, "Why has only this one group election cycle) buy influence. tion, the answer might very well be of D-Day participants in World War II received veteran's status?" Capt. If that is true, a look at who is yes. But until changes are made in the Miles Wiley of the Air Force was asked this question and he replied, "That's spending the most money to promote game's rules, the SIU has to play at a good question. I don't have an explanation." their agendas for the nation is scary. the best of its ability, and that means Operation Mulberry , which consisted of constructing a sea-wall from 30 SPAD. The National Conservative Political sunken ships to make a protective harbor for the D-Day invasion forces, We must counteract the millions and Action Committee (NCPAC)- $19.3 affords the seamen who were on those ships veteran's status. Everyone is millions of dollars that flow from these million. delighted with this great news, this progress, but we are also concerned wealthy, conservative anti-labor PACS. Fund for a Conservative Majority­ about the other merchant seamen who were in the D-Day invasion and all We can't do that with corporate do­ $5 .4 million. of those who were wounded or died on sunken ships elsewhere. Only 200 nations and tax write-o(fs from mil­ National Congressional Club (or­ of the 1,000 in the Operation Mulberry group are still living. Even though lionaires. We have to count on each ganized by Sen. Jesse Helms)- $5.3 many others are dead, they should receive the honors due them, and the member of the SIU for a few dollars million. other living merchant mariners should also be given similar status. here and a fe w dollars there. Fifty The list goes on with organizations cents a day, $1 or $2 a day can mount General Dwight D. Eisenhower said during the war: whose views seldom agree with or­ up. "Every man in the Allied Command is quick to express his admiration ganized labor; the American Medical If politics were a game of fairness for the loyalty, courage, and fortitude of the officers and men of the Association, the Realtors PAC , the with everyone on equal footing, the merchant marine. We count on their efficiency and their utter devotion National Association of Home Build­ SIU and organized labor might be able to duty as we do our own ; they have never failed us yet, and in all the ers and other business-oriented orga­ to count on old-fashioned persuasion struggles yet to come we know that they will never be deterred by the nizations. and debate on the issues. danger, hardship or privation. When the final victory is ours, there is no At the SIU, the Seafarers Political We need your help and your money. organization that will share its credits more deservedly than the merchant Action Donation (SPAD) is our arm In the political game the SIU is the marine." for donating money to our political basketball player under six-feet tall , friends. We don't believe that a the 175-pound wide receiver sur­ Eisenhower's intentions were admirable , but nothing was done to expedite congressional representative or a sen­ rounded by 300-pound defenders. But these sentiments during his administration or any other administration over ator can be "bought" for a fewthou­ just like sports, the little guy, if he's the past 40 years. His words of praise can be found "buried" in the sand dollars at campaign time. But we dedicated enough and works hard, can Smithsonian Maritime Exhibit. They are there for all to see, but that is not do believe that these SPAD donations win. enough. help us open the door to politicians. Make sure to set aside that little bit How many more letters will it take before the DefenseDepartment comes SPAD gives the Union a chance to from your wages-50 cents a day the ' to terms with the facts in this case. It is not the case of small sections of make its pitch, to explain its goals and price of a i;up of coffee. In the end, the merchant marine, but of all of this group of Americans who gave their promote legislation in the best interest those pennies a day can make a big all in World War II. of the SIU and organized labor. difference. The Heavy Cost of Substance Abuse

By Phillip L. Polakoff, M.D. crime. And that $89.5 billion figure is children and adolescents are alcoholic, other drugs, such as alcohol , mari­ Press Associates, Inc. for one year. according to the American Psychiatric juana, sedatives, hallucinogens or am­ Drug abuse annually drains an es­ Association. These victims, on the phetamines. About half of those who Alcohol and drug abuse afflict an timated $46.9 billion in direct and in­ average, will die 10 years earlier than abuse the drugs develop a dependence estimated 25.5 million Americans. An direct costs from workers, business nonalcoholics. or addiction. additional 40 million people are af­ and industry and the economy in gen­ Drug abuse afflicts more than 12.5 Successful treatment of drug and fected if we count members of the eral. million Americans. Of those, seven alcohol abuse includes a variety of abusers' families and people close to Alcoholism is a progressive disease million use addictive prescription drugs therapies geared toward abstinence. those injured or killed by intoxicated that generally first appears between without a doctor's supervision; five Psychotherapy often helps patients drivers. the ages of 20 and 40, usually after million abuse cocaine, and half a mil­ understand their behavior and moti­ Substance abuse victims can't con­ five to 15 years of heavy drinking. It lion are addicted to heroin. vations, develop higher self-esteem trol their use of alcohol or other drugs. takes a much shorter time, perhaps Abuse of sedative-hypnotics or bar­ and cope with stress. Self-help groups They become intoxicated on a regular measured in months, foran adolescent biturates most often begins either as such as Alcoholics Anonymous also basis-daily, every weekend, or in heavy drinker to become alcoholic. a prescription for insomnia among are effective for many. periodic binges-and often need the Some alcoholics, upon sober reflec­ middle-class women between 30 and The only medication for alcoholism drug for normal daily functioning. tion, say they probably were alcohol­ 60, or as a recreational experiment requires daily use of disulfiram (An­ Substance dependence victims suf­ ics from their first drink; that lack of among men in their teens or early 20s. tabuse) which induces violent physical fer all the symptoms of abuse ;-!us a control-a key indicator-was evident Often, abusers regularly take heavy reactions to alcohol. Drug addiction tolerance tor the drug so that increased from the start. daily doses and develop an addiction. has been treated with various sub­ amounts of it are necessary to get the Although drinking habits vary widely, Abuse of opiates, such as morphine stances which substantially reduce or desired effects. Alchohol, opiates and in general abuse occurs in one of three or heroin, generally follows abuse of block the effects of the abused drug. amphetamines can also lead to phys­ patterns: ical dependence in which the person develops withdrawal symptoms when • Regular, daily intoxication; he or she stops using the drug. • Drinking large amounts of alcohol The human tragedy of this is incal­ at specific times, such as every culable. The measurable costs are ap­ weekend; palling. The total dollar cost of alco­ • Binges of heavy drinking that may holism is estimated at $89.5 billion­ last for weeks or months after for treatment and indirect losses such relatively long periods of sobri­ as reduced worker productivity, early ety. death, and property damage resulting from alcohol-related accidents and Ten million adults and three million

January 1986 I LOG I 39 S the school season 1986 begins, it's not too early Don't Wait! Apply Now For Afor high school seniors to start thinking about September and college. For depend­ ents1986, of Seafarers and Boatmen, the financial burden of college can be greatly eased if they win an SIU scholarship. The awards, known as the Charlie Logan Scholarship Program, are given each year under the auspices of the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan. For de­ pendents, four schol­ arships are offered$10,. 000 But the Scholarship Program is not exclusively for depend­ ents. A award and two $1scholarships0,000 are avail­ $5,able000 to active Seafarers and Boatmen. Also, when there are exceptionally qualified Seafar­ ers and Boatmen, the Board of Trustees of the Welfare Plan may grant a second award to an active member.$10,0 00 The Scholarship Program was begun in to help members and their 19children52 achieve their educational goals. Several years ago it was named after Charlie Logan, a labor consultant and arbitrator who died in He 1975. helped establish the Seafarers 1986 SIU College Scholarships Scholarship Program and then worked hard to keep it strong Deadline - April 15 and growing. Medical are eligible to apply for Must Take SAT or ACT Princeton, N.J. or Box a dependent's scholarship up to For both active members and Berkeley, 08540Calif. Seafarer Requirements the age of the dependents of eligible mem­ 1025 94701 , 25. whichever is closest to your Each applicant for a depend­ bers, the scholarship grants are mailing address. Seafarers and Boatmen who ent's scholarship must: awarded on the basis of high For upcoming ACT test dates are applying for scholarships Be unmarried at the time school grades and the scores of and applications contact: ACT must: • application is made. either College Entrance Exam­ Registration Union, P.O. Box Be a graduate of high school • Be under or years of ination Boards (SAT) OR Amer­ Iowa City, Iowa or its equivalent. • age (whichever19 is applic25 able). ican College Tests (ACT). 41Scholarship4, program52243. appli­ Have credit for two years • Be eligible for dependent The SAT or ACT exam must cations are available to active days) of employment with • benefits under the Seatare rs be taken no later than February members or their dependents at an(730 emplo yer who is obligated to Welfare Plan. to ensure that the results any SIU hall or through the Sea­ make contributions to the Sea­ Be a graduate of high school reach1986 the Scholarship Selection farers Welfare Plan, Auth farers Welfare Plan on the em­ • or its equivalent. Committee in time to be evalu­ Way, Camp Springs, Md520. 1 ployee's behalf prior to the date The applicant's parent must: ated. For upcoming SAT test Scholarship winners will20746. be of application. Have credit for three years dates and applications, contact announced in May The Have one day of employ­ • • days) of employment with the College Entrance Exami­ deadline for submission1986. of ap­ ment on a vessef in the six­ (1,095 an employer who is obligated to nation Board at either: Box plications is April month period immediately pre­ make contributions to the Sea­ 592, 15, 1986. ceding the date of application. farers Welfare Plan on the em­ Have days of employ­ • ployee's behalf prior to the date ment on a vessel125 in the previous of application. calendar year. Have one day of employ­ Pensioners are not eligible to • ment in the six-month period receive scholarship awards. immediately preceding the date of application. Dependent Requirements • Have days of employ­ Dependents of Seafarers and ment in the12 previ5 ous calendar Boatmen who apply for a schol- year. -· arship must be unmarried, under The last two items above cov­ years of age, and receive ering worktime requirements of sole19 supportfrom the employee the applicant's parents do not and/or his or her spouse. Un­ apply to applicants who are the married children who are eligible children of pensioners or eligible for benefits under Plan Major deceased employees. # 1

40 I LOG I January 1986