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Sj- V,' .•:••••'i '•••: ;':''. V •;• • iTir-fffT." ' a' Page Two SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967 |j ^ ill Seafarer Turk Wins Govt Award Report of For Bravery by Merthant Seaman International President by Paul Hall Although potentially significant steps toward the revitalization of the United States merchant marine have been taken with the presenta­ tion in Congress of bills outlining a national maritime policy, such a policy is still in the future and far from realization. Plans, no matter how ambitious, are of little value unless they are implemented. And plans on a national scale cannot ultimately be - 1 carried out until opposition to them at the highest level of government— either direct or indirect—is overcome or at least neutralized. While taking note of the solid and continuing accomplishments of other countries in the area of shipping activity, we in maritime labor can take little comfort from the fact that a workable plan for such accomplishments in our own country is still not out of the discussion stage in which it has languished for many endless months. Meanwhile, we must watch the speedy progress in shipping capa­ bilities of other countries whose government leaders recognize the value of a strong and competitive merchant marine. Among the free nations of the world, Japan has made tremendous advances in her merchant marine. She has already left this' country behind in tanker capacity and is rising rapidly in other vessel categories as well. Of still greater importance is the fact that Japan was able to carry more than one-third of all its own exports and almost half of its vast Seafarer Alfred D. Tuck and family are shown with officials of government, union and company after cere­ imports in Japanese-flag bottoms during 1965, and is expected to in­ mony in Washington honoring Seafarer's heroism in Vietnam harbor. From left: Robert McElroy, chief crease its self-contained carriage to 55 percent of imports and 63 per­ clerk of House Merchant Marine Committee; Acting MARAD Administrator James Gulick; Fred Tuck; cent of exports within the next four years. Mrs. Lausita Tuck; Tuck and daughter; SlUNA Vice President Robert Matthews and Ed Terres of Isthmian. This while only a little over seven percent of America's combined total of experts and imports moves in U.S.-flag ships today. Seafarer Alfred D. Tuck has been awarded a U.S. Coast Guard citation and the Merchant Marine Maritime growth behind the Iron Curtain is as dangerous to the Meritorious Service Medal, for heroically preventing the destruction of several merchant ships and a United States and the freedom of the seas as it is impressive in statistics. major South Vietnamese harbor, as well as saving the lives of several hundred seamen. As the most powerful nation in the Communist world, the Soviet Union The Meritorious Service has fully acknowledged the economic and political advantages of a Medal is one of the highest the smoke-fllled engine room to pier in Qui Nhon Harbor, the strong merchant marine and more than doubled the size of its fleet awards the Government can be­ assist in securing the fuel serv­ Margarett Brown was surrounded in only five years. stow upon a merchant seaman. ice pump, and volunteered to go by five other vessels, including the According to a recent report by the U.S. Maritime Association, I above the starboard boiler to close SlU-contracted Makato Victory. At the award ceremonies, held further Russian maritime growth is expected at a rate of a million tons the bulkhead steam valves pre­ The Hoosier State was carrying a year until 1970—and we can be sure it won't stop there. Reports out November 22 at Maritime Ad­ venting the possibility of further supplies of plastic explosives and ministration Headquarters in of East Germany indicate that Moscow is so intent on gaining suprem­ explosion and serious fire. The napalm and a power-supply ship, acy on the seas that it is willing to risk the disfavor of its satellites. Washington, D.C., Acting Mari­ engineer on duty was injured, and docked 200 yards away, had a full time Administrator James Gulick The bulk of shipbuilding facilities in East Germany and much of that in although he was quickly pulled load of oil. Bulgaria, Poland and others, is committed to the upgrading of the praised Brother Tuck's selfless out from beneath the debris, suc­ action, by quoting the Citation: An Army official, said Tuck, Soviet merchant fleet—despite protests from these countries that they cumbed to his injuries. had estimated that a second ex­ are losing money in the process. "During the early evening of "Mr. Tuck, in entering the en­ plosion aboard the Margarett February 24, 1967, the Margarett gine room at a time when it was In the face of these facts and with the sad state of our own fleet Brown would have set off a chain clearly apparent, the United States cannot afford any more vacillation Brown was docked in Qui Nhon not known that a fire or further reaction, blowing up 'the pier and on enacting a maritime program which will once again put *his harbor, Vietnam, alongside the SS explosions might occur, and ini­ all the ships in the area and kill­ country in a competitive position on the high seas. Hoosier State. Suddenly there was tiating immediate action to pre­ ing 400 working in the near vicin­ a flareback and explosion at the clude further casualties, displayed ity. Margarett Brown's starboard outstanding courage and devotion On Behalf of Crew boiler furnace. Mr. Tuck, off to duty in keeping with the high­ S/U Creiv Rescues 21 Seamen watch, ran to the engine room est traditions of the United States Tuck accepted the awards on door, but gaseous fumes, steam, Merchant Marine." behalf of the "many other men and smoke prevented him from Tuck told the LOG that sev­ who were involved." He specifi­ From Ship Ablaze Near Guam entering. With no apparent re­ eral other seamen who rushed to cally praised chief engineer Am­ Seafarers aboard the Coeur D'Alene Victory (Victory Carriers) gard for his own safety, he im­ the engine room to help were brose White, the members of the ship's emergency crew. Seafarers helped rescue 21 crewmembers aboard the frei^ter San Jose, when mediately descended the shaft equally deserving of the awards. that vessel caught fire off the coast of Guam on November 11 and alley escape trunk ladder, entered Docked by an explosive-laden Virgil Lambert, John Scully, Pete Prevas, and Dick Whittely, and had to be abandoned by the O" the chief and first Engineers of the crew. ing 32 crewmembers, the Coeur Hearings On Ship Disaster Continue Hoosier State, Roy Boyett and E. Frank Bose, electrician on the D'Alerfe closed in on the other. Neelson, who scrambled onto the Coeur D'Alene Victory, reported The rescue operation was com­ Margarett Brown from the Hoo­ that his ship was 90 miles west of pleted without injury and in a sier State which was moored Guam and ten miles from the comparatively short period of alongside. In a letter to Paul scene of the fire when they re-* time, said Bob Davis, AB and the Hall, president of the SIU, Tuck ceived a distress signal. "We got ship's delegate. "Bosun Joe Cash said, "As for myself, I will accept the signal at 1930 hours", Bose did an excellent job trying to hold (the award) on behalf of the men said. "When we onto the lifeboat, but lost it due on the Margarett Brown, who re­ arrived at the to the heavy seas", Davis reported. sponded to the General Alarm scene, we saw The Coeur D'Alene had to alter and who no doubt gave of their that the San Jose it's course after picking up the own selves not knowing from one was on fire amid­ San Jose seamen in order to moment to the next, that that mo­ ships. avoid the typhoon, whose winds ment may have been their last." Shortly after had reached 150 knots. The ves­ The nomination for the Mer­ the fire broke out, sel had to head north, until they chant Marine Meritorius Service the San Jose had could reverse course and head Medal was made in May by Rep­ south for Guam, Davis reported Bose lost her power, resentative Edward Garmatz, (D- including the to the LOG. Md.) who chairs the House Mer­ emergency power, said Bose. "We put the San Jose seamen chant Marine and Fisheries Com­ "This made things difficult, since ashore at Guam, then proceeded mittee and Senator Daniel Brew­ signalling had to be done with to Vietnam," Davis said, "and the ster (D-Md.), who is a member flashlights," he reported. Navy Destroyer put the other of the Senate Merchant Marine The SIU vessel spotted two crewmembers ashore at Subic Al Bernstein (left), SlU Director of Welfare Services and Social Bay." and Fisheries subcommittee. In lifeboats at approximately 2140 Security, discusses the Pan Oceanic Faith sinking with the Coast his recommendation, Brewster hours. Rescue afforts were not The skipper of the San Jose sent Guard inquiry panel chairman. Rear Admiral Chester R. Bender. said that "There is no question in only hampered by heavy seas, a radiogram to the Coeur D'Alene Hearings on the sinking continued last week in San Francisco. Bern­ my mind but that he ^uck) de­ hut "typhoon Gilda was due to Victory praising the efforts of her stein reported that Bender "was impressed by the coolness of the serves this medal. In a society hit the Southern tip of Guam the officers and crew. Another radio­ gram was received from the com­ men and the seamanlike way they went about their activities pre­ which is increasingly devoted to next morning", Bose said. self-service, this mariner unsel­ mander of MSTS commending the paratory to abandoning ship," and "by the fact that there was an fishly took his life in his own No Injuries Reported rescue effort. In addition, the men excellent relationship not only between the officers themselves but hands to prevent further explo­ Also on the scene was the Navy of the Coeur D'Alene donated between the crew as well." (Photograph by C. H. Meyer PHC; U.S. sions which might have killed his destroyer, Hissem. As the Navy $205 to their counterparts aboard Coast Guard Official Photo, 12th C, G. District, San Francisco, Calif.) shipmates." ship approached one lifeboat hold- the San Jose. December 8, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three

AFl-CIO President Addresses Opening Session 200th Seafarer Licensed After Engineer's Upgrading Fleet Detiine 14 National Disgrace,'

The 200-mark was reached by the engineer's training program, Meany Charges at MTD Convention jointly sponsored by the SIU and District 2 of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, with the graduation on November 21 of MARtTl^lF TBAKS nFWlRflMifNT Seafarer Clarence Riggins, Jr. 'TIME ADMlNISTPflTinMi and sailed as FOWT before earn­ f6 -rvviAL cn- • TIMTIOIV Having successfully com­ ing his engineer's license. pleted the intensive course of Before joining the Union, he study prescribed by the School had spent 20 years in the U.S. for Marine Engineering operated Navy and retired as a chief radio­ by the two unions, and passing the man after 16 years in that rating. U.S. Coast Guard examination for In addition to his other accom­ Third Assistant Engineer, Riggins plishments, Seafarer Riggins is was presented with his new third's also the holder of a first class ticket by Commander William D. telegrapher and telephone opera­ Derr, USCG, at Coast Guard tor's license from the Federal headquarters in New York. Communications Commission. Riggins said that he may return to New York soon to continue his studies and stand for a standard marine radio operator's license.

Several hundred delegates to biennial convention of AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department listen to Sen­ r iMf ^ ator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.), who said "Great Society" requires "adequate maritime strength." Kastenhuber Riggins Seven additional Seafarers BAL HARBOUR, Florida—AFL-CIO President George Meany has sharply assailed passed their exams and received the government's "stupid policy" in starving the nation's merchant marine, except in time new engineer licenses before the Butts Hernandez of emergency. Speaking at the opening session of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ 200-mark was reached. They are ment's Biennial Convention, James Reaume, Paul Brinson, Ronald Spencer, director of the Meany said the present con­ Judiciary Committee, addressed pointed out that "99% of our Richard Carter, Lucien Butts, the convention and asked, "Why engineer's training program, de­ dition of the maritime indus­ trade moves out of U.S. ports." Alfred Kastenhuber. Isabel Her- scribed Riggins as ''an excellent do we seem unable to support a As the LOG went to press, dele­ student with an average in the try is a national disgrace—and viable merchant fleet in peace­ gates to the MTD Convention "it can't be justified under any time when we can so readily ap­ were preparing to deal with a circumstances." preciate the crucial role that the number of vital issues affecting The labor federation head merchant fleet plays, and must in­ the future of the maritime indus­ told several hundred delegates at evitably play, in time of war?" try and the welfare of the mem­ the MTD convention that, "We Governor Roberto Sanchez berships of the various affiliated need an American merchant ma­ Vilella of the Commonwealth of organizations. A full story on the Puerto Rico stressed his island's rine, we need American ships convention will appear in the next dependence on shipping and issue of the LOG. built in American shipyards, man­ Reaume Graham ned under the American flag by Brinson Carter American seamen." nandez and Eschol Graham. Riggins, who will celebrate his 90s" and called him a fine exam­ "If this calls for the expenditure 52nd birthday later this month, ple of the high caliber of licensed of large sums of public money, so be it. Public money could not be joined the SIU at Norfolk in 1964 (Continued on page 11) spent for a better cause. I think in the final analysis it would cost as much to do this job right as it costs us to finance crash programs SIU Action Prompts Review every few years," Meany added. Heads List of Speakers Of Cargo Preference Rates Meany headed a long list of la­ bor, congressional, government WASHINGTON—A tripartite committee of maritime, labor, and industry officials who ad­ management, and Maritime Administration representatives have dressed the delegates from 38 na­ begun a review of the ceiling rates for U.S.-flag vessels carrying tional and international unions foreign aid cargoes. and 32 maritime port councils in The committee was set up at er vessels. The rate in this class the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. a meeting called by Maritime previously has been 20 percent less. Administrator James Gulick at Senator Warren G. Magnuson which ship operators, unions and • Rates Inadequate (D.-Washington), the chairman of In his discussions with the the Senate Commerce Committee, AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany (second from right) and Gov. Roberto Administration staff members di.s- Sanchez Vilella of Puerto Rico (right), speakers at convention, are cussed establishment of machinery Commerce Department, Hall em­ also addressed the convention and to review the ceiling rate structure phasized that the new rates were said it was obvious that the "Great shown with MTD Pres. Paul Hall and Sec.-Treas. Peter M. McGavin. revisions made by the federal inadequate and steps should be Society stops at the water's edge." agencies several weeks ago. taken immediately to put them at He explained that 34 months ago compensatory levels. He advised the Administration promised a These developments followed that all interested parties, both new maritime program, but that talks by SIU President Paul Hall, shipping management and labor the White House "has never sub­ Commerce Secretary Alexander representatives, be given an oppor­ mitted such a plan." The United B. Trowbridge, Under Secretary tunity to meet with MARAD rep­ States "cannot have a Great So­ Howard Samuels, Maitland Pen­ resentatives to review the existing ciety if we do not enjoy adequate nington, Chief of the Agency's rate structure with the view to es­ maritime strength." Cargo Promotion, and Gulick. tablishing fair and reasonable rates Senator E. L. Bartlett (D.-Alas- Hall requested those attending that would be adequately com­ ka), chairman of the Senate Mer­ the meeting to help correct in­ pensatory. chant Marine Subcommittee, told equities to U.S. shipping resulting As a result, a call for such a delegates that the maritime pro­ from the Maritime Administra­ meeting was made by the Mari­ gram submitted last month by tion's rate revisions. time Administrator for November Senate and House leaders was "a Under the recently amended 28 in Washington. good program—a program behind rate change so-called smaller ves­ Some 75 shipping company rep­ which all segments of the mari­ sels up to 15,600 tons were given resentatives along with representa­ time industry could and should a 10 percent increase in the ceil­ tives of various maritime unions unite." The Senator expressed the ing rate allowed in the transport participated in the initial discus­ hope that nothing would be al­ of U.S. foreign aid shipping. sions at which the tripartite com­ lowed "to shatter the industry's Intermediate ships—over .15,- mittee was set up. The union unity" on the maritime program. 600 tons—were given a ceiling of representatives on the committee Representative Emanuel Celler Vice President Hubert Humphrey talks with Representative John Dent 25 percent under the newly estab­ are Hall and Hoyt Haddock of (D.-N.Y.), Dean of the House (D.-Pa.) and AFL-CIO Vice President James A. Sutfridge (center) at lished guideline rate for the small­ the National Maritime Union. and Chairman of the House MTD's convention reception. MTD delegates convened in Bal Harbour. December 8, 1967 Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Vice President Humphrey to Address Seven More Seafarer Veterans Seventh Biennial AFL-CIO Convention Atided to SlU Pension Roster WASfflNGTON—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and several Cabinet members have ac­ cepted invitations to address the AFL-CIO's seventh biennial convention opening December 7 at the Americana Hotel in Bal Harbour, Fla., Federation President George Meany has announced. The date of the Vice Presi- ^ dent's address has not yet been Handicapped, and Administrator determined, Meany said. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Health, Educa­ William Gaud of the Agency Meany also announced that the tion & Welfare John W. Gardner, for International Development. AFL-CIO Executive Council will Secretary of Transportation Alan Speakers set for December 12 Ward Seymour Kaelep Babb hold a one-day meeting December S. Boyd and American Legion include Director Willam Simkin of 6, preceding the convention. The names of seven Seafarers have been added to the list of those Commander William E. Gal- the U. S. Mediation & Concilia­ The convention will recess over men enjoying retirement security with the aid of SIU pensions. braith. tion Service, NAACP Executive the weekend of December 9-10 Director Roy Wilkins and Prime The latest additions to the SIU's pension roster include: Otho Babb, for meetings of convention com­ Rusk to Speak Minister Hugh Shearer of Ja­ Leo Entringer, Norman Gillett, Luciano Ghezzo sailed as bo- mittees.' Among speakers scheduled for maica. the second day are Secretary of Luciano Ghezzo, Hubert Sey- sun. He joined the SIU in the port The AFL-CIO General Board, The two fraternal delegates made up of 29 Executive Council State Dean Rusk; Attorney Gen­ mour, John Ward and Oskar of Philadelphia. A native of Italy, eral Ramsey Clark; Betty Fumess, from the British Trades Union Kaelep. Ghezzo makes his home in Brook- members and a chief executive Congress, who will address ses­ officer of each affiliated national the President's assistant for con­ Otho Babb sailed as steward 'y"' sumer affairs; Director R. Sargent sions on dates to be annornced, and international union and trade are General Secretary Lord and joined the Union in New and industrial department, will Shriver of the Office of Economic York. He was born in Suffolk, Opportunity; Chairman Harold Cooper of the National Union of meet December 9. General & Municipal Workers N.Y., and lives in Brooklyn with Major speakers on the opening Russell of the President's Com­ and Assistant General Secretary his wife, Delia. Babb last sailed day of the convention include mittee on Employment of the H. R. Nicholas of the Transport on the Transglobe. & General Workers Union. Leo Entringer joined the Union Vice President William Lady- in the port of Detroit and sailed SlU Fishermen's Unions Rap man of the International Brother­ as fireman. Born in Wisconsin, hood of Electrical Workers, who he is a resident of Green Bay. also will speak on a date to be Ghezzo GOlett Entringer was set, is the fraternal delegate from U. S.-Soviet Fisheries Pact last employed by Hubert Seymour was born in the Canadian Labor Congress. Mississippi. He lives in Mobile Other guests of the AFL-CIO the Reiss Steam­ and was a member of the steward scheduled to address the delegates ship Company. department since joining the SIU Norman Gillett in that port. are Secretary-General Aharon joined the SIU in Becker of Histadrut, Secretary- New York and John Ward joined the SIU in General Arturo Jauregui of the sailed in the deck New Orleans in 1940. Born in Inter-American Regional Organ­ department. He is Alabama, Ward's last ship was the ization of Workers (ORIT), Sec­ a native of Jersey Del Norte. He sailed all ratings retary-General Harm Buiter of Entringer City, N.J., and in the engine department. the International Confederation of makes his home in North Bergen, A member of the deck depart­ Free Trade Unions, and Secretary- N.J., with his wife, Elizabeth. Gil­ ment, Oskar Kaelep shipped as General Andre Bergeron of the lett was employed by the New bosun. He is a native of Estonia French Force Ouvriere. York Central Railroad. and now lives in Miami. Building Trades Pledge All-Out Aid

Representative James A. Burke (D-Mass.) reads one of 4,000 letters For Program to Rebuild U.S. Cities delivered to his Washington office by SlU Atlantic Fisherman's Un­ ion President James Ackert (right) and SlUNA representative Joseph BALL HARBOUR, Fla.—^America's 3.5 million building tradesmen will give their "full coop­ Algina. Letters, like current campaign of SlUNA's Fish and Cannery eration, know-how, resources and manpovyer" to the task that offers the greatest opportunity of Conference, urge new legislation to bolster U.S. fishing industry. their careers—the job of rebuilding American cities under new federal housing programs. Presi­ dent C. J. Haggerty of the AFL-^^ BOSTON—Officials of the SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic Fisher­ CIO Building & Construction To help solve the urban crisis, Congress to permit on-site picket­ men's Union and New Bedford Fishermen's Union have sharply Trades Department pledged "we enthusiastically supported the ing by a building trade against an criticized the fisheries agreement recently announced in Moscow here. legislation" which helped create unfair contractor "represents one under which the Soviets would t for all kinds of concessions "we "This will be a vast program un­ the new federal Department of of the sorriest demonstrations" of be allowed to fish to within never should have granted." precedented in the history of the Housing &. Urban Development, the failure of Congress to permit six miles of the Long Island and Haggerty recalled. Noting that a vote on a pending bill. "I can Equally vocal on the matter was world," Haggerty told delegates at New Jersey coastlines, while lim­ HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver assure you," he told the delegates, Austin Skinner, secretary-treasurer the opening session of the depart­ iting their catch of industrial fish would be a convention speaker, "that this department has not and of the New Bedford Fishermen's ment's 54th convention. "This is Haggerty promised the fiill co­ will not abandon the fight." —red hake, silver hake, scup and Union. not a job for amateurs. The re­ fluke—in the agreed area south of operation of the building trades "As usual, the Russians wound building of America will require Recognize Commitment Cape Cod off the Middle Atlantic in the "vast program of rebuilding up with all the marbles," he said. the best talent the B&CTD and its On the subject of the war in coast. The Soviets won't fish in 18 unions can mobilize," he de­ our cities." that area from January 1 through Boycott Meetings Southeast Asia Haggerty said that clared. A few days earlier, he noted, building trades delegates, as prac­ April 1 next year. Skinner noted that the heads of Haggerty noted that employ­ Weaver announced that plans for tical men, "clearly recognize our Captain James Ackert, presi­ the SIUNA fishermen's unions ment of disadvantaged persons and (ebuilding will begin soon in 63 commitment in Viet Nam. They dent of the Atlantic Fishermen's had boycotted the Moscow ses­ training of youth from each af­ demonstration cities under the Union, said the American nego­ sions. realize we are dedicated to the fected area are "both major con­ model cities and housing acts. Of principle that the destructive tiating team headed by Donald L. "We didn't want to be associ­ siderations" in the demonstration this Haggerty said: McKernan, special assistant for ated with this even by attendance," forces of communism shall not be cities program. He advised local "I suggest our local unions and permitted to crush helpless people fisheries and wildlife to Secretary said Skinner, adding, "We could unions to "consider accepting into councils make every effort to be in any part of the free world." of State Dean Rusk, "came back see how this was going to turn out membership" area residents who represented on all planning com­ President Johnson sent a mes­ from Moscow with a big bag of and our worst fears have been re­ are qualified as journeymen crafts­ mittees for all phases of the pro­ nothing." • alized. This is just another sellout men, and who want to work in that gram in their area. sage to the conveniton saying that "The Russians," asserted Ack­ by the State Department." capacity. He urged, too, that lo­ building tradesmen can "take great ert, "won all the concessions such The entire field of urban renew­ Both Ackert and Skinner an­ cals "institute learner or trainee al and rehabilitation "will for years pride in a long and honorable his­ as broaching our 12-mile limit. nounced plans to seek government programs for those area youths continue to grow . . . and the time tory of service to this country" As for their agreement to limit support to extend the U.S. terri­ who show an interest and an apti­ is right now for us to get into and concluding "I know the na­ their catch in an almost extinct torial waters to the end of the tude." every phase of the work as it ex­ tion can count on your sustained fishery, a fishery they clobbered Continental shelf to protect the Urban Crisis pands." The program, Haggerty help in ensuring that the high into the bottom, they'll only add coastal fisheries from Russian fish­ declared, "means not only a better goals we share for America are this Mid-Atlantic fleet to the fleet ermen. As practical men, Haggerty already fishing Georges Bank. The They were particularly dis­ said, building tradesmen have way of life for millions of Ameri­ fully realized." pressures on Georges is going to turbed that the agreement did not long warned that the innumer­ cans" but also continued employ­ Talks by AFL-CIO President be harder than ever now." cover Georges Bank where, they able and complex problems fac­ ment for present and future union George Meany, SIU President Ackert further charged that the say, the Russians have been "giv­ ing our cities would, if unat­ members. Paul Hall and Weaver are sched­ Russians swapped an almost ex­ ing the U.S. fishermen the busi­ tended, explode into an urban On the subject of situs picket­ uled during the convention pro­ tinct fishery in the Mid-Atlantic ness." crisis. This now has happened." ing, Haggerty said the failure of ceedings. December 8, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five

Hie Atlantic Coast Brazil Government Offers New Plan

by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Areaj For Carriage of Nation's Exports It is not suqjrising that Administration figures released recently WASHINGTON—Apparently ending an international dispute between the United States, Brazil, show that this country's balance of payments deficit is up for the and 17 shipping companies, the Brazilian Maritime (Commission has proposed a new Inter-American third quarter of this year and shows every indication of going Freight Conference which will give Brazilian and American shippers an increased share of carriage as high as $2.5 billion dollars by the time the complete totals of Brazilian export cargoes to are in. the United States. Prior to pres­ dealing with exports from Brazil, riers filed strong protests with the Once again, experimental gov- f entation of the new Conference who now consist of Uruguayan U.S. Federal Maritime Commis­ ernment economies aimed at low­ Philadelphia plan, now under study by the U.S. and Argentinian companies only, sion which was still studying the will initially receive their share of program. In addition, they insti­ ering the deficit appear not to Edmund Abually is registered Federal Maritime Commission, a have achieved their goal. Brazilian Government decree allo­ cargoes from the percentage al­ tuted a $72.9-million damage suit and ready to go. His last job was lotted to Brazil. in Federal court against the Amer­ Increased American-flag shipping as bosun aboard the Glohe Car- cating sharply reduced cargo ican and Brazilian lines, contend­ could go a long way toward bal­ rier. quotas to American shippers had Stormy Developments ing that the agreement violated ancing this trade deficiency but Philip Huss has been on the brought threats of stiff reprisal In the stormy history of the U.S. anti-trust laws. there is still no inclination on the beach for awhile and is now set from the Senate floor and the Brazilian export cargo quota sys­ The U.S. Justice and Trans­ part of the White House to give to go again. He sails in the black FMC, and had aroused the op­ tem, three different plans, includ­ this sound method a try. A closer gang. position of many European ship­ portation Departments also op­ ing the present one, have been posed the (Conference on the look by Administration officials at Ready to go is John Shannon of pers whose Brazilian export trade set forth since June 1967. At grounds that it might be detri­ what a revitalized merchant ma­ the deck department. His last job was also limited. that time, Admiral Celso Soares rine could do in this area is called was aboard the Ames Victory. mental to America's commerce. The president of the provi­ Guimares, the Brazilian maritime At this point, seeing that the for now more than ever before. sional committee of the proposed Puerto Rico administrator, initiated an Inter- legal hassle might obstruct ap­ Conference, Amaro Soares de American Freight Conference, Boston Work has resumed at Sea-Land proval by the FMC for years, Andrade, explained the main ob­ under which 80 percent of cargoes Brazil reversed its position and Angelos Antoniou had to leave terminal here after maintenance jectives of the new plan: To carried from Brazil to the U.S. the Cities Service Miami due to workers walked off the job to pro­ reached an accord with Scandi­ establish 65 percent as the mini­ would travel on ships showing navia but did not consult the the serious illness of his wife. We test the companies laying off 21 mum initial quota for Brazilian the flag of those countries. workers. American lines, and then infuri­ are happy to report she is im- export cargoes carried by the Bra­ Though a few Latin American Tom Rainey decided to take ated the American carriers and zilian national line, Lloyd Brasili- and two British lines were per­ some time off in San Juan after a the FMC by imposing the same ero, and American lines (presently mitted to join the program, third- long stay as cook and steward "take-it-or-leave-it" restrictions on consisting of the SlU-contracted flag shippers (who had been carry­ aboard the Borincano. As the Ra­ the U.S. companies. Delta Lines and another com­ ing over 33 percent of such car­ The move brought Delta Steam­ phael Semmes passed through on pany; this figure is to rise to 80 the way to the coast and Vietnam, goes) were generally ignored in ship Line president Captain John percent over the next 10 years; the agreement, and were assigned Clark to complain to the FMC we had a chance to say hello to and to establish 35 percent as the George Burke, "Boots" Peura, a 20 percent limit by the Brazilian that the new Conference could maximum participation of Euro­ Government. shut United States operators out Emil Wagner, Joe Hilton, and Joe pean (or "third-flag") carriers at Atchison. When the European companies of Brazilian trade altogether. the present, and to reduce this objected, Brazil issued a decree Senator Russell B. Long (D- Norfolk figure to 20 percent within the which stipulated that European La.), declared that serious coun- A. Sawyer J. Sawyer next decade. Julian Sawyer last shipped as lines—and other lines—refusing termeasures would be in order Such a system, at the outset, to accept the new quotas would proved and he will be looking for AB on the Transsuperior. After unless the Brazilian stand was attending to some business, he will will provide American shippers be banned from carrying any changed. Such countermeasures an AB's job soon. We wish her a Brazilian export cargoes. The complete recovery. ship out shortly after the first of with approximately 45 percent of would include restrictions on im­ the year. the 65 percent allocation, since Europeans refused to comply, and ports of Brazilian coffee, a ban on Antone Pacuinos told us he was Alfred Sawyer, bosun on the the Brazilian merchant fleet is cur­ were barred from carrying any disappointed the Seatrain Mary- Brazilian ships carrying U.S.-fi- same ship, will spend the holidays rently capable of handling only northbound Brazilian cargoes, as nanced cargoes, and a review of land laid-up. He had a good OS with his family and sail shortly about 20 percent of Brazil's ex­ of August 10. job. the entire program of foreign aid afterwards. ports. South American carriers As a result, the third-flag car- to that country. Elmer "Blackie" Grose was BR In addition, the Federal Mari­ on the Maryland and said he must time Commission considered in­ be bad luck because his last two voking Section 19 of the 1916 ships laid-up. Elmer will take the Shipping Act, which would have first job to hit the board. Metal Trades Hold Convention; required the Commission to take , Baltimore measures against ships of any na­ tion that discriminated against Fred Laplant just arrived from Organizing Cited as Malar Goal American flag vessels. Thailand and Vietnam aboard the Employment of such measures Carroll Victory. A 29-year SIU BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—Delegates to the 53 rd convention of the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department voted new four-year terms for their 11 top officers and set new objectives for the would have cost Brazil hundreds veteran, Fred believes in a nice of millions of dollars. rest between trips. department's 22 affiliated unions in the fields of organization, bargaining and legislation. Lewis Francis, AB, has been on President B. A. Gritta set the tone of the convention by re­ since the department itself has no cuss union objections to the pro­ the beach awhile and is ready for independent organizing staff. posed changes. a long trip. He's a 23-year vet­ porting that unions afiiliated SEAFARERS^#LOG Labor Secretap^ W. Willard AFL-CIO Secretary - Treasurer eran. with the department made sizable Wirtz, in a major speech, an­ William J. Schnitzler reported gains in the last two years, notably Dec. 8, 1967 • Vol. XXiX, No. 24 that the federation has added in the federal wage board or "blue nounced that a presidential com­ mittee which heard testimony re­ more than 1.5 million new dues- Official Publication of the collar" field, but warned that the Seafarers International Union paying members to its roster in biggest job of organizing lies cently on proposed changes in of North America, Ci/Am 'Blacklist' the last three years—an increase ahead. Executive Order 10988, govern­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes ing organization and bargaining of almost 11 percent. and Inland Waters District. Metal Trades unions have won AFL-CIO Adds 5 Ships exclusive recognition agreements rights of federal employees is now Chairman John W. Macy of the WASHINGTON —Five addi­ "summing up" in preparation for Executive Board from 38 major federal installa­ U.S. Civil Service Commission PAUL HALL, President tional foreign-flag merchant ves­ submitting its recommendations to tions—up 14 since the 1965 con­ announced that "it is only a mat­ CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD sels have been added to the Mari­ vention. But there are 400,000 the President. ter of days until the basic policies Exec. Vice-Pret. Vice-President time Administration's list of ships still unorganized blue collar work­ Commenting on a convention for a new coordinated federal AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS ineligible to carry U.S. govern­ ers in the federal service, Gritta resolution charging that the De­ wage system" covering 700,000 See.-Treae. Vice-President ment-financed cargoes because partment of Labor has proposed government blue collar employees ROBERT MATTHEWS said. Vice-President they have called at (2uban ports. He reported that the Metal "restrictive" regulations on the will be made public. Editor Barred in the latest MARAD Trades Etept. and its unions "es­ years-old system of apprenticeship President-Emeritus Lawrence MIKE POLLACK report, issued last month, are; tablished a fine record" of collec­ training sponsored by labor and Raftery of the Painters swore in the British-flag East Sea (9,679 tive bargaining achievements, in management, Wirtz said "I read department officers for the new Staff Writers your resolution" and "I agree it PETER WEISS gross tons); the Protoklitos, Cy­ grievance handling and in con­ term. Besides Gritta, they are HARRY WITTSCHEN prus (6,154 tons); the Isomeri, ducting leadership training pro­ is wrong that your committee on Secretary - Treasurer Clayton W. FRANK MARGIOTTA Finland (3,576 tons); the Aragon, grams for more than 2,000 stew­ apprenticeship was not consulted" Bilderback and Vice Presidents STEVE STEINBERG Staff Photographer Somaliland (7,201 tons) and the ards—a record achieved with the before the regulations were pub­ Gordon M. Freeman, Internation­ ANTHONY ANSALDI Lebanese vessel, Atticos (7,257 aid of the AFL-CIO unions and lished. al Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ tons). ers; Gunnar Hallstrom, Pattern rikllihtd kistikly at 810 Rksds lilaiid AISBIS the federation's Departments of "I believe in the apprenticeship N.E., Waihlnttsn, D. C. 20018 ky tks Ssatar- Since it was begun on January Organization and Education. system," the secretary declared. Makers; William A. Lazzerini, sn latsmatlonal Union, Atlantic, Gall, Lalss u« iBlaBd Watcn Dlitrict, AFL-CIO, 675 1, 1963 a total of 216 ships of The convention adopted a pro­ "It's a solid achievement." Assur­ Molders; John H. Lyons, Iron Fonrtk Aycnat, irsoklyn, N.T. 11232. Tel. all flags—with an aggregate gross gram calling for stepped-up orga­ ing the delegates that "we're going Workers; Russell K. Berg, Boiler HVailntk 9-6600. Siosni clau awtsfc »aM at Waihlniton, D. C. tonnage of 1,558,872—^have been nizing efforts not only in the fed­ to protect the standards, the tradi­ Makers; Hunter P. Wharton, Op­ nSTMASTEII'S ATTENTION: Fans 3579 placed on the Maritime Admin­ eral service but also in private tion and proven principles of erating engineers; P. L. Siemiller, carOi iksaM kc Mat la Scafararc latiraatlaaal Ualan. Atlantic, Galf, Lakes aa< lalanO Watcn istration's Chiban "blacklist." With industry. It emphasized that the trade unionism and of apprentice­ Machinists; William E. Freden- District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fairtk A«cnH, Break- the exception of Communist Po­ program is capable of achieve­ ship systems," Wirtz announced berger. Firemen & Oilers; S. Frank lyn, N.T. 11232. land, only free world shipping is ment only with the assignment of that he will meet with presidents Raftery, Painters, all presidents of covered , by the reports. money and manpower to the job. of major unions January 6 to dis­ their unions. Page Six SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967

Brazil Maritime Workers Visit SlU ^Inland Watorf DtfliHlii From Nov. 16 to Nov. 29, 1967 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Boston 3 0 7 0 1 11 3 New York 72 24 43 28 15 203 113 Philadelphia 6 1 2 2 1 27 8 Baltimore 34 15 20 9 11 120 63 Norfolk 17 9 7 4 15 38 23 Jacksonville 7 10 7 5 4 11 7 Tampa 19 8 4 4 0 19 8 Mobile 27 22 22 17 3 76 35 New Orleans .... 35 88 33 16 18 156 84 Houston 78 63 73 67 4 122 58 Wilmington 20 14 9 12 17 24 0 San Francisco ... 29 47 43 40 32 61 22 Seattle 14 15 4 3 8 53 11 Totals 361 316 274 207 129 921 435 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH All All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Boston 1 0 0 1 1 6 2 New York 50 47 37 28 13 115 92 Philadelphia 3 1 0 4 2 12 5 Baltimore 24 18 15 13 10 56 81 Norfolk 7 9 2 2 9 21 26 Jacksonville ..... 7 11 4 10 5 7 6 Tampa 6 10 1 4 0 4 10 Mobile 17 23 ' 15 18 4 43 29 New Orleans 39 40 31 37 21 87 73 Houston 66 66 56 51 5 85 73 Wilmington 12 7 9 5 7 16 1 San Francisco ... 35 29 36 30 33 67 24 Seattle 17 10 8 9 8 31 15 Totals 284 271 214 212 118 550 437 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A CUssB Boston 1 0 1 0 2 6 1 New York 41 12 21 15 12 165 35 Philadelphia ..... 5 6 4 1 6 15 6 , Baltimore 17 10 13 7 9 95 48 Norfolk 4 9 4 3 14 20 19 Jacksonville 5 4 4 4 7 7 5 Tampa 13 2 4 3 1 9 2 Discussion of worldwide maritime industry problems was the topic of Mobile 28 9 18 13 5 73 23 New Orleans .... 42 25 33 25 21 128 87 discussion at SlU Brooklyn Headquarters recently when members Houston 67 34 49 19 3 85 60 representing Brazil Maritime Workers Trade Unions met with SlU Wilmington 9 5 6 4 3 13 0 International Representative Charles Taibi. The unionists represented San Francisco .. 38 36 31 25 17 35 21 Seattle 12 7 4 4 4 31 7 a cross-section of seafaring unions from shipbuilders' to stewards. Totals 282 159 192 123 104 682 314 ii Five Children Perish in Fire YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH in Condemned Migrant Shack Seafarer's Guide to Better Buying PILESGROVE TOWNSfflP, N. J.—Five small children burned to death in a squalid, condemned migrant-worker's shack here last week while their mother was picking leeks in a field for her employer-landlord. ^ Oatmeal, that last stronghold of low-cost of dehydrated apples you ever saw. ilie tragic example of callous years old. Their bodies were found cereals and standby of large families, now The real fallacy, from your point of view, exploitation of migratory labor­ close to a still-burning coal stove has gone the way of the dry cereals. The is that you are paying at the rate of 77 cents ers by employers occurred only in the bedroom. An overturned supermarket shelves have become loaded a pound for the added sugar. weeks after the entire farm work­ electric heating unit was on the with fancied-up presweetened versions con­ You also better look at the weights and ers' camp in which the shack was floor nearby. taining bits of apple, raisins, maple flavor, prices of all the new cereals before you grab located was condemned by state Fire Unexplained and other ingredients. Too, you now can them off the shelf. Of three packages which authorities. Two migrant workers rushed buy "quick" oatmeal, "instant" oatmeal and seem to be the same size, one may provide Following an investigation by to the shack when the fire broke what can be described only as "instant in­ 8 ounces, another 10, a third 12, at prices the New Jersey Department of out at 11 a.m., but were forced stant." ranging from 33 to 43 cents, and costs per Labor and Industry, Jill Brothers back by heavy smoke and flames. —one of the largest growers in The new pre-flavored, super-convenience serving from 3.3 to 5.4 cents. This is what By the time the firemen arrived, hot cereals show the fallacy of "conven­ they call the new math. Salem County—^had been issued the front half of the building an ultimatum to construct new where the victims were was com­ ience." You actually can make more money Comparing prices and servings at least buildings at the camp by April 1, pletely destroyed. Officials were stirring oatmeal than you can by going out is a little easier now. Most of the cereals 1968, or face a $2,000 fine. unable to explain how the fire to work. For example, ordinary Maypo oat now show the net weights on the front face Fined $100 started. cereal takes one minute to cook four serv­ of the package and in larger type than be­ Also, the Jills had been fined Aides of New Jersey Governor ings. The "Instant" Maypo takes a. half- fore. $100 on September 20 for viola­ Richard . J. Hughes circulated minute. For four servings of the "Instant" Nutritionally, plain oatmeal does provide tions in some of the run-down quickly through the Assembly and you pay 3.6 cents more. a little more protein than the other cooked Senate chambers in Trenton "as wooden structures which included In case you think pennies don't count, cereals like farina, and almost twice as over-crowding plus failure to pro­ soon as news of the deaths reached vide vented heating and adequate the capital. note that the extra price for the half minute much as corn flakes,*and three times as much per ounce as pre-sweetened dry cereals. fire resistant materials. "If this doesn't do it, nothing you save adds up to $4.30 an hour compared When he arrived at the scene ever will," one of them said as to the typical industrial pay of $2.80 an These, without the added milk, get close to of the fire, migrant labor bureau they launched a renewed admin­ hour. the point of worthlessness in protein value. chief Charles Yersak said an in­ istration effort for legislation to The addition of a few inexpensive ingre­ Otherwise, as convenience food, the pri­ spector's report on the camp, filed clean up the state's squalid mi­ dients and flavoring can quadruple the cost vate brands of some dry cereals now are October' 19, did not include the grant labor camps. of your cereal—^raising the price from as less expensive than the "instant" types of fire violations and they were as­ When Mrs. Taylor's husband, little as 1.2 cents an ounce to as much as 4.8. cook cereals. For example, the "wheat sumed to have been corrected. Isaac, 37, returned to the camp Some of the extra ingredients are even de­ shreds" sold by the consumer cooperative "This never should have hap­ stores, come to approximately 1.5 cents an pened," Yersak declared as he from nearby Philadelphia in the ceptive. The new Oatmeal with Apples and climbed through the charred ruins. evening, he could just stand in Cinnamon, or Raisins and Spice, actually ounce, and appear to be the best value of "We never would have permitted front of the bumed-out building contains more added sugar than apples, all dry cereals, and better value than most this," and shake his head silently. raisins or spice. lUs is shown in the list of the new cooked types. Sudh "Shredded The five children of 32-year-old The couple have two other chil­ of ingredients (which the Quaker company wheat cereal has almost as much protein Mrs. Annie Marie Taylor ranged dren who were in school at the puts on the bottom of the package). The as oatmeal and about one-third more than in age from seven months to seven time of the fire. added "Apples" consist of the tiniest chips cornflakes. December 8, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven Use of Convicts for Harvest A Migrant Workers Christmas Enjoined by Calif. Court

SAN FRANCISCO—Superior Court Judge Robert J. Drewes issued a preliminary injunction barring the assignment of convict labor by the state to harvest the crops of private growers. The judge's action was hailed by State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary- Treasurer Thomas L. Pitts as a victory for both the state central labor body, which had brought suit for the injunction, and for California's "grossly underpaid farm workers." The suit charged Republican Governor Ronald Reagan with violating the state constitution when he authorized the use of some 300 state prison convicts to harvest figs and grapes in Merced and San Bernardino Counties. Judge Drewes agreed with the AFL-CIO's contention that Reagan's authorization of the use of convicts to harvest private crops did not follow the rules of the work furlough program. "It does not resemble a rehabilitation program in any important respect," the judge said. Noting that the work furlough program is one that allows an inmate to work individually and "to enjoy his freedom during regular hours of work," Judge Drewes pointed out that the state's farm program for convicts "requires that the prisoner work as a member of a gang or crew . . . under guard and isolated" from other employees. Moreover, the judge said: "The legislature has provided that pris­ oners may be required to perform labor on public works and ways and in the suppression of forest fires. They may also be required to work on parks and grounds under the control of park commissioners. These activities concern the public interest. Here the state owned neither the crops harvested nor the land upon which the work in question was performed, nor did it pay the workers. The interests of the growers are private, not public, and the work performed, therefore, was not done within the meaning of" the state constitution. Commenting on the decision, Pitts said that in view of the express language of the constitution and the "blatant irregularities" in the Reagan administration's assignment of convict labor, "I don't see how the judge could have reached any other decision." He added that, "hopefully ... the court's decision may help awaken California's taxpayers to the realization that any time the state or federal government abets industry or agriculture in obtaining a cheap labor force—whether they are convicts, welfare recipients or aliens— the effect is to deny jobs at decent wages to thousands of other workers, with the upshot that many of those so disemployed wind up on the welfare rolls. Although the ruling will have no immediate effect since the grape harvest is already concluded, Pitts said that a permanent injunction will be sought to prevent the use of state prison labor in all fields.

Whether on a federal or a state level, it been corrected as ordered. Because they were seems more often than not to require an isolated not listed on a subsequent inspection report, they human tragedy before the wheels of govern­ were assumed to have been corrected—until Latest techniques in organizing Members of the Broadcast Em­ ment get moving to correct outrageous situa­ tragedy struck. and bargaining, labor and political ployees returned to their jobs with tions that are otherwise either overlooked be­ A new investigation was immediately ordered education and civil rights were the American Broadcasting Co. cause of political pressures, or dealt with in by the Governor and laws to clean up squalid among key subjects covered at the after ratifying a new four-year such lenient fashion as to let greedy employers migrant labor camps were again indignantly Advanced Southern Labor School contract ending a strike that began off with no more than an unfelt token fine or called for by concerned state legislators and in Biloxi, Miss. The week-long September 22. The ratification slap on the wrist. citizens alike. Perhaps if sustained effort is school is held each year in a dif­ vote, on a settlement reached with A shocking case in point is the unnecessary continued after the initial anger and shock over ferent city in the South. Attending aid of federal mediators, was 906 fire which last week snuffed out the lives of five these wasted lives fade, New Jersey may suc­ this year's classes were more than to 260. children from one family in a previously-con­ ceed in curbing the callous negligence of the 40 full-time union representatives demned migrant farm workers' camp in New growers, but until migrant workers are granted <|> and officials of 12 international Jersey. The youngsters were trapped by flames equal status with the rest of the labor force by unions as well as state AFL-CIO M. S. Novik of New York, that engulfed the four-room, ramshackle wood­ the federal government, their nationwide dis- organizations. radio and television consultant to en shack they shared with their pajents and two pair will persist. the AFL-CIO, was honored here other children. Their mother was picking "This never should have happened; we never vl> by the National Association of vegetables in a nearby field at the time. would have permitted this," said the head of Rubber Workers Local 683 in Educational Broadcasters for his Only two months before, the Jill Brothers— the New Jersey migrant labor bureau as he Pecos, Texas, won contract im­ contributions to the field of non­ one of the largest growers using seasonal mi­ examined the ruins of the Taylors' shack. provements totaling 43.8 cents in commercial radio. Announcing grant workers in the area—had been fined a No, it should not have happened. If farm a three-year agreement with Auto­ the presentation of a special pla­ piddling $100 for flagrant fire violations which workers had the basic legal right to organize motive Proving Grounds, Inc. que to Novik during the NAEB endangered the lives of all in the run-down and bargain collectively with their employers Union President Y. L. Dominguez convention. Director Jerrold camp, and told to correct them at once. The it needn't have happened. With active union said gains include a 33-percent Sandler of National Educational Jills were also ordered to rebuild the camp by protection they would no longer have to live increase in hospitalization benefits, Radio particularly hailed Novik's April of next year under threat of $2,000 in in firetraps without recourse, or struggle along and two additional paid holidays. efforts in helping secure passage fines by the state's Department of Agriculture. on little more than a third of what the average Wage hikes of 20, 10 and 10 cents of the Public Broadcasting Act of Under a system where farm workers are the factory worker earns, or have to scratch out in successive yearly boosts were 1967. only group of employees in America not their very existence without jobless benefits dur­ agreed to for truck drivers, tire <1> covered by the National Labor Relations ing the frequent periods of unemployment technicians and mechanics. Car Act and largely excluded from wage and social which accompany seasonal work. drivers and others will get annual More than 400 members of the Machinists began their seventh security laws, they are easy victims for the big The AFL-CIO and the labor -movement in increases of 10 cents each year, farm owners who consider them expendable. general has long sought recognition for these the union said. month on the picket line in a strike for better wages against the Marx With no union representation to protect them citizens and will continue to do so until the Toy Co. in Erie, Pa. When the through collective bargaining, the migrant farm goal is realized. Editor-Manager Richard H. strike started June 1, most work­ workers and their families are defenseless However, the sad fact remains that while Marriott of the Sacramento Valley ers averaged $1.7^ an hour on an against exploitation. As long as they face no those of us who are fortunate enough to enjoy Union Labor Bulletin, an AFL- incentive plan and the highest penalty for their actions beyond minimal fines our full rights as Americans prepare for the CIO weekly newspaper, is likely to hourly-rated worker received which they can easily absorb, the growers can festive Christmas season ahead, there will be become Sacramento's next mayor. $2.32. The company's last offer, continue unscrupulous exploitation of these no happiness in what remains of the Taylor Ii> the recent election, he topped 13 weeks after the strike began, seasonal migrant employees virtually un­ family and very little for others like them for all candidates for the nine-member was a three-year contract with in­ checked. whom similar tragedy looms in every tomorrow. city council in winning a fifth creases of 5, 6 aiid 6 cents an Only after the five children of Annie and It will remain there until the plight of the term. Traditionally, the council hour for incentive workers, 8, 6 Isaac Taylor paid with their lives did it come to migrant farm workers is realized by all of selects its top vote getter as mayor. and 6 cents for hourly-rated em­ the attention of New Jersey authorities that the their fellow citizens—both in and out of It will cbrose on January 2. ployees. fire violations found at the Jills camp had not government—and eliminated. Fage Eight SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967

U.S. Runaway Shipowrters Use Same Tacfics Receives First Lakes Vacation Check I U. S. Runaway Companies Jump Border To Exploit Low Wage Scale in Mexico ' U.S. runaway ship owners who bolt the U.S. flag in search of cut-rate runaway ship havens such as Liberia and Panama, have their counterparts in U.S. companies who jump the Mexican border to ex­ ploit low wages for greater profits. AFTL-CIO Research Director Nathaniel Goldfinger recently re­ ported that the "mushrooming problem of border-jumping run­ CIO Department of Research warned that it is helping to des­ away industries is a cause of suggested that the figure may ex­ troy jobs of U. S. workers with "increasing concern" to the U.S. ceed 100. no clear long-run benefits to Mex­ labor movement. Most runaways go into Mexico ico's economy. The AFL-CIO, he noted, has under the Mexican government's The program is tailor-made for called on federal agencies to re­ National Frontier program, set up a company to install only a part in 1961 but activated only two fuse assistance and advice to run­ of its manufacturing process in John Weglian (left) receives the first SlU Great Lakes District years ago, which gives them tariff- Mexico—one that calls for hand away operations that result in the vacation check which was issued by patrolman Donald Cubic. Presen­ loss of jobs by U. S. workers. free privileges on imports (ma­ work, unskilled or semi-skilled chinery, raw materials and semi­ labor. Electronics, apparel, wood tation was made in Detroit hall. Weglian sails as a chief steward. Growing Practice finished goods) provided they and furniture companies have Goldfinger's statement called export their finished product. been quick to take advantage. attention to recent reports that The product is then shipped Huge Investment U. S. firms are setting up opera­ back into the U. S. under a tariff tions across the border in ever- code that requires the producer Vision Letter, a publication The Pacific Coast expanding numbers. to pay duty only on what is widely circulated throughout Latin In April 1967, the Labor De­ termed "value added," meaning America, has noted that U. S. the low-cost Mexican labor. food processors also are crossing partment listed 33 U. S. firms by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative operating in Mexico. A recent The AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ the border. It lists Heinz, Camp­ New York Times article said more cil, urging Congress to amend the bell's, Del Monte and Green Giant as than 70 are now there. The AFL- code to eliminate this advantage. "some major brand names The Reagan Administration's "protect the rich, skim the poor" with interests in Mexico." program has been dealt a defeat by the State Supreme Court. The newsletter reported that The court ruled by a 5-2 vote that the Administration's cutbacks U. S. plants in Mexico so far of $219 million in Medi-Cal were illegal. Senate Passes Stroi^ Meat Bill "represent an investment of about $8 million," with the figure stead­ This upheld the decision by Sacramento Judge Irving H. Perluss BY 82-2; Measure Goes to House ily climbing. It cited as an ex­ prohibiting substantial reductions ^ ample Transitron Electronic Corp., in Medi-Cal services that had of hospital stays to eight days. WASHINGTON—A strong meat inspection bill which would of Wakefield, Mass., which it said been ordered by State Health and Also included in the Medi-Cal at last assure consumers that all the meat they buy measures up to is about to open a new $1.5 mil­ Welfare Administrator Spencer cuts were: psychiatric care, dental federally-set quality standards was passed last week in the Senate lion plant in Nuevo Laredo. Williams. Governor Reagan ex­ care, except to control pain or pressed his "disappointment" over by a roll-call vote of 82-2. The ^ Among other U. S. firms known treat infection, hearing examina­ the ruling. only dissenters were Democrats predicted passage in the revised to have set up plants in Mexico tions, all non-lifesaving surgery The court held that the Health and drugs, speech and physical Richard B. Russell and Herman form. Even opponents of the Sen­ are Litton Industries Inc., Fair- Talmadge of Georgia. ate version believed that nearly all and Welfare Administration cut therapy, chiropractic care, eye child Camera & Instrument Corp., back the level of services to Medi- refractions and eye glasses, wheel The Administration-backed bill of its provisions would prevail in Raytheon Co., Hughes Aircraft Cal's 1.9 million recipients with­ chairs, artificial limbs and other was then returned to the House conference. Co., Kayser-Roth Corp., Sarkes out first considering the medical­ prosthetic devices. which voted to name conferees to Although the Senate bill will Tarzian Inc. and A. C. Nielsen ly indigent. The cuts ordered by Wilmington meet with their counterparts in the take up to two years to become Co., the TV-rating and marketing the Reagan Administration on Senate to iron out differences be­ fully effective, it goes well beyond services company. September 1 included a limitation Shipping has been excellent for tween measures passed by the two the previously-passed House meas­ the past two weeks. We have eight houses. ure which provided a 50-50 cost ships in transit Despite House insistence on the sharing basis whereby states and and paid-off one joint talks, Representative W. R. the federal government would fi­ vessel. Poage (D-Tex.), chairman of the nance the "voluntary" upgrading Sonar Detector Zeros in Sam Drury House Agriculture Committee, of state inspection of meat sold hopes to be FFD wholly within state borders. Only ^oon. His last job meat sold interstate now is in­ On 2,000 Year-Old Vessel was aboard the spected by the federal government. PHILADELPHIA—The wreckage of a Roman wine-carrying Columbia V i c - While retaining the cost-sharing ship that sunk mysteriously more than 2000 years ago has been lory. Sam sails as London Bridge's chief electrician. feature, the Senate bill makes it found in 300 feet of water off the west coast of Turkey by an mandatory for states to provide Ditiry Fred Lynum is New Home intrastate meat inspection equal to archaeological expedition using ^ presently registered and looking sonar devices. traveling at the rate of 1,600 yards federal standards within two years per second. for a cook's job. He shouldn't have May be US or face a federal takeover. Also, The discovery of the ship As soon as the instrument re­ too long a wait. if any state fails to respond to sounds something like the solving corded five distinct bumps along The SIU sponsored a Thanks­ i.J LONDON London Bridge is warnings from the U.S. Agricul­ of a good mystery. The first clue the bottom of the sea, the archae- giving dinner at the Persian Room. expected to fall down next year ture Department, the Agriculture that there was a sunken wreck logist used the University's two- Many members and their families and the 10,000 tons of granite Secretary could take action against came in 1963 with the finding of man submarine. The 16-foot attended. which compose the bridge may an intrastate plant known to pro­ a statue of a Negro boy that prob­ midget sub is named Asherah, San Francisco wind up in the United States. duce dirty meat in unsanitary con­ ably dates back to Hellenistic after the Phoenician sea goddess. The span over the river Thames ditions, confiscate the unwhole­ times. When Dr. George F. Bass, The craft can go down to a depth Shipping remains good here is to be abolished next year to some product, and seek an injunc­ a scuba diving archaeologist, heard of 600 feet and the expedition had and we paid-off and signed-on make way for a wider bridge and tion to close the plant as a menace what Turkish sponge draggers had no trouble finding the sunken ship. the San Juan, Delaware, Norberto the Corporation of London has to public health. come up with, he reasoned there Tiles that Dr. Bass thought were Capay, Seatrain Ohio, Oceanic Tide, Steel Designer, Young offered the granite facing for sale. Continual Review was a sunken boat in the area, as part of the roof of the ships' galley ;ki America, and the Eagle Voyager. :i Of the 100 offers he has re­ Governors would have the op­ no one would throw a valuable were clearly visible. ceived so far, the 24 offers Lon­ tion of waiving the time limit and statue into the sea. Lying near the ship was a large The Beaver Victory and the don City, Engineer Harold King letting the Department of Agricul­ Dr. Bass, who is assistant cura­ water jar and other pieces of pot­ Southwestern Victory are crew- feels are serious have come from ture move in immediately. tor of the Mediterranean section tery. The ship itself is hidden un­ ing up. the United States and Canada. Authority would also be extend­ of The University Museum of the der thick layers of sand, but its Seattle California, North Carolina, and ed to the Agriculture Secretary to University of Pennsylvania, set outline is unmistakable. Arizona all have definite projects out to find it. The. spot where the Shipping tapered off a little dur­ continuously review state systems Salvage attempts were deferred ing the last period, but we think in mind for using the bridge across before and after they meet federal statue had been located is 15 miles until 1969 because of the com­ an estuary or something similar, north of Yassi Ada (Flat Island), it will get better during the next standards—including access to all plexity of the task. The expedi­ few weeks. the engineer said. plants to examine records and col­ which is between the Turkish tion, composed of about 45 per­ Originally built for King Wil­ lect samples for analysis—and in­ mainland city of Bodrum and the sons who are mostly graduate stu­ W. McBride was bosun on the liam Fourth in 1831, London voke federal jurisdiction where Greek island of Kos. dents at the University of Penn­ Seatrain Texas before piling off Bridge cost 426,000 pounds sterl­ standards are not maintained. Dr. Bass used a side-scanning sylvania, has used sonar to explore to take vacation. A 20-year SIU man, he sailed seven months on ing $1.19-million). No definite An amendment covering im­ sonar device which was lowered to another area of the Aegan near the Seatrain Texas. selling price has yet been an­ ported meat was added to the bill the sea floor where the bronze Mamaris, off the southern coast of^ nounced, but Cyril Lewis, chair­ which would require annual re­ statue had been found and pulled Turkey. Sponge draggers there* Juan Mojica hated to leave the man of the Bridge Committee, ports by the Agriculture Depart­ along the sandy bottom by means turned up the bronze bust of a Venore after a good trip as stew­ said, "It is estimated that to buy ment on compliance with U.S. of a cable attached to a trawler. woman, possibly the goddess ard, but he had some personal an equivalent amount of stone federal standards by foreign meat The electronic instrument emits Demeter. Sonar indicated 15 business to attend to. Juan said could easily come to about $2.1 producers exporting meat to this sound waves, at frequencies of bumps, but further exploration has he hopes his next ship is just as million.'* country. 5,000 to 20,000 cycles per second. been deferred to some future date. good. L ^ -r f- ^ 1 ^ vii I'iK'Mv ^ ^

Seafarer John Shearoni Jr. was accompanied a Arriving at the SlU hall in New Orleans, vet­ Norfolk hall by (l-r) his mpther, Mrs. Shearon eran Seafarer J. Molina and wife enjoyed an Sr., Mrs. Gardnu; and his sister, Pat Shearon excellent meal with other SlU couples and guests.

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feiihfe d^erdtidne holiday tee^ whieh^w Enjoying dinner at Norfolk hall are Miss Narcis Brother William Howell eats with family in Nor­ ^ enjoyed hy ciil folk. From left are: Bonnie, Mrs. Howell, Ann, Howel, Kimberly, Bill Jr., and Miss Beverly Delk.

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Miss Stella Lopez receives pineapple from A. Surez Seafarer and Mrs. Lloyd J. Wetzel wait to sign guest The Anderson family enjoyed holiday meal in Norfolk. at New York hall. Fruit was just a small part of the list at New Orleans hall with sons (l-r) Wayne, Leon From left are Tony, Dorothy, Mike, A.O., and Eugene. traditional feast served to SlU members and guests. and Jules and daughter and son-in-law, J. Wayley. Anna and Glenda sat by Joseph Elkins and wife, Hilda.

Seafarer G. W. Flint and wife (at left) relax with Happy faces of Seafarer Jerry Ange and family show Seafarer Lawrence P. Hogan finishes coffee with his friends at SlU hall in New Orleans after finishing how they enjoyed day at Norfolk hall. From left are wife, Ada, after Thanksgiving dinner at SlU hall in a fine turkey dinner complete with all the trimmings. his mother, Agnes; Michele and Evelyn, and Mrs. Ange. Brooklyn. Some of many children present are in rear. Page Ten SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967 •I Receives Death Benefit Cheek Senate Votes 15% Social Security Hike By Overwhelming Margin of 78-6 WASHINGTON—The Senate voted 78-6 approval of a bill raising social security payments by at least 15 percent for the nearly 23 million persons receiving old age survivors' benefits. Those receiving the lowest benefits would get considerably bigger percentage increases under the Senate measure. The minimum ^ would rise from $44 to $70 for employers and workers pay social courage prescription of drugs by a single worker—a 59 percent security taxes. It would mean less costly generic rather than jump—and from $66 to $105 for higher payments from higher-paid brand names under the medicaid an elderly couple. workers, but it would also mean program. The Senate also dropped most that on retirement their social se­ Medicaid is the joint federal- of the punitive public welfare re­ curity benefits would be consider­ state program which provides a strictions which had been voted by ably higher than under present hroad range of medical services the House and adopted an amend­ law. for low-income persons of all ages. ment which could lead to lower Starting in 1968, the Senate bill Long's amendment, bitterly prices for prescription drugs. would tax up to $8,000 of a work­ fought by lobbyists for the drug Mrs. Rachel Scales, mother of late Brother Irving Bickford, receives er's wage, as compared with industry, would instruct the gov­ $4,OCX) SlU death benefit check at her San Jose, Calif., home from In a key 58-22 vote, the Senate beat down a Republican motion to $6,600 under present law and ernment to test and grade all drugs San Francisco Union Representative Walter Reidy. Irving, 40, was substitute the less generous, more $7,600 in the House bill. While and determine whether a lower- bos'n on Overseas Evelyn prior to his death at USPHS hospital. restrictive House-passed bill for the House proposes to keep the priced drug is as safe and effec­ the labor and Administration- wage base at $7,600, the Senate tive as a higher-priced brand-name backed bill. provides a two-step increase to product. $10,800 by 1972. If it is, government payments AFL-CIO President George The Senate voted to allow per­ for drugs prescribed under the The Gulf Coast Meany termed the Senate-passed sons over 65 to earn up to $2,400 medicaid program would be lim­ bill "substantially better—in every a year without loss of social secu­ ited to the price of the generic important category—than the bill rity benefits. This compares with product. The list of drugs would by Lindsay Williams, Vice-President, Gutf Area passed earlier by the House." $1,500 under present law and be issued in 1970. It has "a better benefit structure, $1,680, effective in 1969, in the Struggle Ahead Two Cuban refugees stowed away on the Del Sud recently, sounder financing, more humani­ House bill. It also voted to let The proposal carried, 43-37, but and were discovered only after the ship had left Rio de Janeiro, tarian welfare provisions, some­ men have the privilege now lim­ what better medicare provisions faces a battle in the House-Senate on its way to the United States. Upon reaching New Orleans, ited to women of retiring at age conference. the Cubans were taken into custody by immigration of5cials and considerably improved med­ 60 with a reduced benefit. icaid." Although the social security bill £ who finally determined that the refugees woidd be allowed It eased the welfare restrictions covers a number of welfare and to stay in the U.S. Before that The AFL-CIO is "particularly by exempting from the compul­ medical assistance programs, only decision was reached, however, last was on the Penn lYansporter pleased that the Senate has re­ sory work provisions mothers of direct social security benefits are one of the Cubans, a 25-year old as FWT on a trip to India. stored President Johnson's recom­ pre-school children and specifying financed from the trust fund in seaman, cut his arm in an escape Brother Gem-ge W. Murrill is mendations for increased social that mothers of children in school which social security payroll taxes attempt. presently registered in the engine security benefits," Meany said. could only be required to take are deposited. The welfare pro­ training or jobs during school New Orleans department and ships from Mo­ grams are financed by general ap­ Urge Prompt Action hours. Seafarer Ray MHler, a native of bile. George has been shipping propriations from the treasury. "We urge the conference com­ The Senate also voted to re­ New Orleans, is comfortable on with the SIU since its inception. In a rare departure from its He prefers short runs and recent­ mittee to move speedily to an quire all 50 states and the District budget-cutting mood of recent the beach for the time being. agreement that will give America's of Columbia to provide welfare as­ Miller usually sails as third cook, ly sailed as oiler on the Claiborne. months, the House voted down, '' social security beneficiaries the sistance for dependent children, but on his last outing aboard the After a seven-month stay on 203-141, a motion to cut the au­ I protection they need and the en­ even when there is an unemployed Yellowstone, he sailed as saloon the Fairport as baker. Brother thorization for the Peace Corps tire American social welfare struc­ father in the home. Twenty-three messman and bedroom steward. Clwis A. Mailoris is relaxing at from $116 million to last year's home in Mobile. He has been ture the strong base that our na­ states and Washington, D. C., ceiling of $105 million. The bill shipping from the Gulf area for tion should have. now prohibit aid to children when was then sent to the White House. many years and will be ready to "While the AFL-CIO applauds there is a "man in the house" and The economy bloc was in full go again right after the first of the Senate action," Meany stress­ this rule has been blamed for en­ control, however, when the House the year. ed, "we must insist that it is only couraging desertions of families disregarded President Johnson's a down payment on the kind of so that children can obtain wel­ The beach is small here and warning that it was making a "se­ social security protection America fare. shipping is good. The Sagamore rious mistake" and voted to trim should'have. We will not cease The fiercest Senate battle came foreign aid spending to $2.2 Hills was laid up for a short time. fighting for improvement until we over an amendment by Senator billion—the lowest figure in 20 Houston have reached 'that goal." Russell B. Long (D-La.) to en­ years. Brother John Rowell is pres­ The House bill provided a 12.5 Davis percent general increase and only ently laid up in the USPHS hos­ a token improvement in minimum pital in Galveston. Here's hoping benefits. It also set a ceiling on Romney Makes Himself Clear Oiler Irving Futterman recently the comes out soon and gets back spent a couple of months on the the federal program of aid to de­ Carroll Victory. He classed the to shipping. pendent children and required Carroll Victory as a good ship and John Moore, who sails as AB, mothers of small children to take Qn Position Against Unions one he hated to leave. Brother has been looking around for a job jobs or job training or lose all In almost identical language, Michigan's Governor George welfare payments. Futterman is now looking for a on a tanker. Romney and U. S. Chamber of Commerce President Allan Shivers short trip to the West Coast, pref­ Seafarer Joe Matejek, who's A House-Senate conference charged that the American labor movement has become too committee will have the assign­ erably to San Francisco. now chief engineer on the tug jowcrful When Brother George C. Davis Laura Hayden, recently received ment of reconciling the major dif- "the monopoly power of unions." erences between the two bills and Romney, a leading contender Romney, in the portion of his I goes, he likes to ship out for a his license and was around the good long haul. His favorite runs )oth the House and the Senate :or the Republican presidential speech reported by the Denver are to India and the Far East. His hall to see his friends. He says he will have to approve the final ver­ nomination, spoke at the Univer­ Post, did not say what he wants last venture was as chief cook on feels better now with his chief sion before it becomes law. sity of Denver Law School. done to curb the "power" of un­ the Rambam, which voyaged to engineer's license in his pocket The Senate bill would pay for Shivers, a former governor of ions. But Shivers was explicit. Bombay on a wheat run. Davis and adds that everyone should the social security improvements Texas, spoke to an oil producers' The national Chamber of Com- has made his home in New Or- take advantage of upgrading now. jy raising the wage base on which convention in Houston. merce, he said, "has devised a ^leans since 1949. The Denver Post said Romney, labor reform package which former head of American Motors, would rid us of a 30-year accumu­ Mobile charged that U.S. labor unions SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS lation of abuses." Bosun Luther V. Myrex is cur­ have become so powerful they He said the "key" element of rently enjoying a stay at his home September 1 - September 30, 1967 may wreck the economy. the chamber's program "is to re­ in Mobile with his wife and fam­ "In our desire to help the work­ form the National Labor Rela­ Number of Amount ily, which includes a new baby. ing man overcome his difficul­ tions Board by turning over its Brother Myrex recently sailed as Benefits Paid ties," Romney said, "we have judicial authority to the courts." bosun on the Waller Rice. Hospital Benefits 4,812 $ 57,339,37 done what we often do. We've Shivers said that with labor Having last sailed as deck Death Benefits 27 63,074.07 gone overboard." "power" thus curbed, there would maintenance for about a year on Disability Benefits 1,068 190,063.00 As a result, Romney con­ be "rules worked out to immunize the Ema Ellzabetb, Seafarer John Maternity Benefits 27 5,400.00 tended, unions are acquiring "mo­ the public welfare against labor R. Rambo has been shipping out Dependents Benefits nopolies" over labor and "this trouble without any help from of the Gulf area since around (Average $202.39) 453 91,629.25 threatens our whole economy." government." The end result, he 1947, mostly as bosun or deck Shivers likewise spoke of the said, would be "a completely maintenance. His home is in Mo­ Optical Benefits 158 2,402.87 Out-Patient Benefits 4,B19 38,368.00 "old concept of labor as an under­ united economic family" in which bile. dog" which led to laws protecting labor would have learned the ad­ Joe Hcam, who has been sail­ Vacation Benefits 11,364 448,276.50 Total Welfare, Vacation 1,716 719,807.30 the rights of workers to organize vantages "of being a better all- ing out of Mobile for about 20 and bargain collectively." Now, round partner in the business en­ years in various engine ratings, Benefits Paid This Period .... 13,080 $ 1,168,083.86 he said, there is need to curb terprise."

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Presidential Task Force Cites Crisis The Great Lahes Govt. Panel Urges Sweeping Reform by Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer,6reat Lakes In Quality of U.S. Medical Care Another season is about to close here in Detroit and many ships are already laid-up. The weather was mild here, until the recent WASHINGTON—The declining quality of American health care has resulted in recommendations sub-zero temperatures that hit the upper lakes. This is a sure sign by the National Advisory Commission on National Health for sweeping reforms in health care, med­ the lay-up season is here. ical schools, hospitals, health insurers, and in the licensing of physicians. During the last few weeks, we've had plenty of slots open for The 15-man commission, deckhands. There is no shortage ^ which included eight doctors, tion of hospitals and other health­ creasing faster than the popula­ of AB's or FOW's, except on Clayton Ward, wheelsman, is in was appointed by the President care institutions, and more severe tion. He pointed out that the St. Mary's Hospital, Superior, Reiss vessels, which are registered to study the needs of the na-' penalties for those who waste fed­ greater demand, the increasing in Ohio. In that state, seamen are Wisconsin. We wish him a fast eral funds called for. complexity of medical and hos­ recovery. tion's health services, and has been not allowed unemployment bene­ conducting its comprehensive sur­ The report scored the "uneven pital practice, and the growing fits during the winter. Charles Burt and Martin vey since May of 1966. Its mem­ distribution of care," shown in tendency toward medical speciali­ Cleveland Trieschmann, who sail in the en­ bers also include AFL-CIO Vice- U.S. health figures on the rural zation, produce shortages in per­ gine department, are back from President Joseph A. Beirne—rep­ and urban poor and migrant sonal care. The first ship to lay-up in this workers, as similar to that which area is expected to be the Joe the west coast. resenting labor—plus three busi­ The report added that in this Paul Tietjen and Philip Minch nessmen and three educators. might be found in the statistics pinch between demand and avail­ Morrow. We believe some six or "of a developing country." eight ships will winter here. are the last of the Kinsman fleet Although high costs, laxity, and able supply, costs will rise sharply a shortage of hospital beds and Top priority must be given to if changes in practice are not About 600 men have been taking on a load of grain for manpower are big problems, the improving medical care for the made. It estimated that under cleared to ship from this port. lay-up. commission emphasized that fun­ poor and the needy, it said. Pro­ the current system health expendi­ This has been a banner year for Buffalo damental changes in the basic grams in this area, both govern­ tures for the nation will rise by shipping and the figure could have system by which medical care is ment and private should be more than 140 percent in the been higher if we were able to fill There is still a lot of grain to dispensed should be the primary "markedly expanded with recog­ decade ending in 1975 and hos­ all the jobs that were called. Re­ be brought into this port. How­ goal to insure equal availability nition of the problems of this pital costs will rise by 250 per­ placement calls are still coming in, ever, all eight ships in the Kins­ of adequate care to all segments segment of the population." cent. During the same period, hut most men are heading for the man Marine Transit fleet are in of the population. however, the cost of living is only coast or finding jobs in town for for lay-up. In dealing with the "crisis in Among suggested changes were expected to go up 20 percent. the winter. All have storage grain with the American health care," the com­ added federal funds as an incen­ mission found that even vast in­ Irwin Miller, chairman of the exception of the Paul Tietjen and tive to hospitals, medical schools, Duluth George Steinbrenner. These ships creases in money and manpower commission and board chairman health research, medical students would be of little use unless the Larry Curnow received his unloaded and laid-up for repairs of the Cummins Engine Company and special programs for the system itself was changed. of Columbus, Ind., noted that AB's endorsement with the help of to be made over the winter, dip­ "disadvantaged." the Duluth upgrading school and ping is slowing down and the "Because the present system while the nation has had tough Also proposed, to insure con­ channels manpower into ineffi­ medical problems to solve until is now temporary wheelsman on filing for vacation pay is booming. tinued competence of physicians, the George Steinbrenner. cient and inappropriate activities, the present decade, "from here Chicago was a periodic re-licensing of added numbers by themselves can­ on out we probably have catas­ doctors and routine review of Although we are only three not be expected to bring much trophes to prevent." their performance by panels of improvement," the report declared. weeks away from having vessels their peers within the community. In accepting the report, Presi­ No Inland Waters in this area laid-up, jobs are still Added to this would be a strict Little Personal Care dent Johnson said it would be coming in at a steady pace. requirement by government pro­ In presenting the report to the required reading for his Cabinet User Tax Slated, Some men are heading for the grams that doctors curb bill-pad­ White House, commission direc­ members and that he would ask coast, like Perry Spilde, a steady ding, unnecessary services and tor Dr. Peter S. Bing stated that all government departments con­ shipper on salt during the winter. poor quality care. this country faces a paradox in cerned with health care to evalu­ Senator Declares ate the recommendations and No definite date has been set yet Greater emphasis by health in­ which a medical care crisis per­ sists even though the number of report hack to him with full com­ CHICAGO —The Senate Fi­ for lay-up. The companies will surance plans on outpatient care nance Committee has no plans to doctors and hospital beds is in­ ments. probably try to run cargo until the was recommended as a good way consider any proposal for user to relieve the strain on existing fees or taxes on the nation's inland last minute, as usual. hospital facilities. waterways. Senator Fred R. Harris Extensive work is being consid­ Financial Burden (D-Okla.), reported to a recent ered for the Calumet River from SlU engineers Upgrnding Progrum Outstanding symptoms of the meeting of the National Water­ 95th St. to the Calumet Harbor. ways Conference. health care "crisis," the group A new food storage and shipping found, were long waits to see a Prepares 200th Licensed Senfnrer The Senator, a member of the plant is being erected at the site doctor, rushed and impersonal at­ (Continued from page 3) home in the state of Florida. finance committee, said that he and it is hoped the project can tention, obsolete hospitals in met­ "trusts the committee will develop engineers the school is turning Richard Carter received a third be completed by mid-1968. Some ropolitan areas, and such "sharp­ assistant's license after sailing as no such plans." Addressing the three square miles of shallow lake ly-rising" costs that they "already out in ever increasing numbers. 250 persons attending the meeting FOWT. A native of Alabama, he around the warehouse area will prohibit care for some and create Riggins was born in Monongah, he declared that "navigable water­ West Virginia, but he and his wife, lives in Tampa, Fla. Carter joined 11 have to be dredged, for barge major financial burdens for many the SIU in Tampa in 1956. He is ways are a major contributor to more." Jean, now have a home in Virginia regional economic development in operations. Beach, Virginia. 39 years old. Revisions in medicare and Lucien Butts is a new third as­ the United States because they Our IBU members should have medicare payments procedures by Spencer forecast a bright future extend the advantages of ocean and continued growth for the en­ sistant. Butts was born in New all the work they can handle this the government were advised to York City, where he still resides. ports some 9,000 miles through winter. encourage more efficient opera­ gineer's program which was inau­ interior America." gurated early in 1966. The school's A former fireman and oiler, he is 51 years old and joined the Union The legislator pointed out that quarters in Brooklyn have just un­ in 1964 in New York. navigable waterways had created nt Home with the LOG dergone renovation and new highly attractive industrial sites equipment is on order to accom­ Alfred Kastenhuber received a where such waterways converge modate expanding classes. second assistant's license. He is with vital rail and highway routes. In addition to the 200 men who 33 years old and joined the Union have gained their original engi­ in New York City in 1964. A In the 25-year period ending in native of Austria, he resides in 1965, private industry invested neer's licenses from the ranks of SIU Seafarers, 176 MEBA Dis­ Orlando, Fla. He formerly sailed about $1.3 billion in 190 water­ as a pumpman and FOWT. front plants and terminals. In 1965 trict 2 Engineers have also up­ graded themselves to higher engi­ Isabel Hernandez, is 37 years alone, nearly $500 million in neer's ratings with the aid of the old, is a former FOWT who joined added value was generated by the the SIU in Houston in 1961. Born waterfront manufacturing plants, program. Seven other Seafarers who in Donna, Texas, he now lives in which employed more than 30,000 passed their Coast Guard exams Brownsville, Tex. Hernandez re­ persons," Harris said. before the total of 200 was ceived a third assistant's license. The projected increase in popu­ reached have also received their Eschol Graham is a third assis­ lation and estimates of future engineer licenses as a result of the tant engineer. He was born in transportation needs indicate that training offered by the school. Georgia and lives in Jacksonville, the freighting requirements of the James Reaume is a new third Fla., where he joined the SIU in nation will double "within the life­ assistant engineer. Born in Can­ 1962. Graham is 38 years old and time of most people alive today," ada, the 45-year-old Seafarer now sailed as FOWT. the Senator remarked. lives in Monroe, Mich. Formerly SIU engine department men in­ "It is reasonable to suggest," a FOWT, he joined the Union in terested in the program should ap­ r i Harris continued, "that the appro­ 1963 in the port of New York. ply immediately, or obtain addi­ priate question is not, 'Can this Retired Seafarer Lawrence P. Hogan relaxes with copy of the LOG at Paul Brinson is 49 years old and tional information at any SIU hall, nation afford to develop water­ Brooklyn home where he lives with his wife Ada. Brother Hogan, 70, joined the SIU in 1939 in Tampa. or directly at SIU headquarters, ways?' but rather, 'Can this nation sailed in deck department and made his last trip on a Long Lines cable A new third assistant, he sailed as 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, afford not to develop water­ ship from Germany to Baltimore. The veteran Seafarer recalls World FOWT. Brinson was bom in New York 11232. The telephone ways?' " War M trips on dangerous Murmansk run as most memorable in career. Cairo, Ga., and now makes his number is HYacinth 9-6600. Page Twelve. SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967

Poem Describes lars and will not take checks, Seamen's Destiny so the only place you can cash Seafarer to Ride Waves Fuii'Time your check is a bank. Now, as To The Editon yoy know, very few seamen can I want to thank you for the get time off to go to a bank After 40-Years of Riding the Nags opportunity to read the Seafar­ whenever they want. And what ers Log. Reading recently about if the ship is in port only dur­ the tragic fate of the Panoceanic ing the week-end, when the Seafarer Mac McQuarrie who has spent most of his life either riding the waves or riding the nags, Faith as well as the dangers of banks are closed? has decided to call it quits on his harness racing career and devote full-time to the sea. the Vietnam run, I would like This is exactly what happened McQuarrie had been a fine harness racer and trainer for some 40 years, prior to his retirement. to share with your other read­ to us on this trip. First, we Most of his racing has been in " ers, retired and active seamen stopped in the Philippines. The the Midwest, particularly his ing drivers," Mac recalls, "men and their families, too, some­ Captain gave us a draw in trav­ native Michigan. "I was always like Stanley Dancer, Del Insko, thing which helps to read be­ eller's checks. It was night and hanging around the fairgrounds Bill Houghton, and Bill Miller. tween the lines of the LOG the banks were closed, so we in Standish, Mich., my home I have never really kept track of stories on the tragedy. had to cash the checks, at a town. I became interested in my record, but I think I've had There is a Carl Shurz Park loss, in a bar. horses as a little kid, got a groom's about 10,000 races since I started." in New York City. Carl Shurz We left for Thailand and job in 1928, then moved up to He believes his biggest victory was a Civil War General and a went to town to cash our checks, driver and later, a trainer," Mc­ came not in the U.S., but behind Congressman from the Mid­ but nobody would take them. Quarrie said. the Iron Curtain in Budapest, west. He lived a long life, from We were told we could cash Hungary. "I won a two-year old 1829 to 1906. And in one of them at a bank, but the nearest Mac, as he's known to friends, trot there in 1948. The purse, in the national shrines here in one was 110 miles away. In was the leading driver at Jackson American money, was about $30,- Philadelphia, half a block from addition, the cab drivers wanted Raceway from 1953 to 1956 and 000. The name of the horse was Constitution Hall, there is a $5 and $10 for driving us in 1960 and he led drivers at Indian Boy," he recalled. place called the Second Bank around while we were trying to Northville Downs in 1962. He has of the United States. Carl find ways of cashing our checks. handled horses at every Northville Not all his experiences behind the Iron Curtain were pleasant, Shurz's words were, many years We then went to the Army Downs meeting since the track ago, thought worth carving base, but were told we were pioneered night harness racing however. Officials of the Hun­ garian Trotting Association ap­ there in stone. They express not Army personnel, and they with parlmutuel betting in 1944. the importance of having 9deals. couldn't help us. He was honored at Northville proached McQuarrie about the when the eighth race was named shipping of 16 American horses "You may tell me that my We understand it is good for in his honor. to Hungary and he agreed to take views are visionary, that the the steamship companies to use Since starting as groom in 1928, charge of the shipment and spend destiny of this country is less traveller's checks, because this His retirement was hastened by Mac McQuarrie, in racing outfit, six months there training horses. exalted, that the American peo­ doesn't tie up much cash aboard a broken hip, sustained in a racing estimates he's had 10,000 races. Hungary, however would not ple are less great than I think ship. Checks are charged to accident last summer. permit its money to leave the they are or ought to be. In an­ the company as they are used, swer: ideals are like stars, you at one percent. The steamship However, the 54-year-old AB four wins in the Hanover-Filly, country, so a Hungarian racing will continue the sailing career man in New York, Max Vas, paid will not succeed in touching company is running a few ships six victories in the American Na­ them with your hands, but like and has lots of cash in the bank that began with service in the tional, and four each in the $45,000 of his own money for the horses in the U. S. and was the Seafaring man on the desert drawing five percent interest, Pacific area during World War Bloomsburg Fair and Batavia of water, you choose them as instead of staying aboard ship. II. Downs Stakes. to be reimbursed back in Buda­ pest. Vas wound up $45,000 Who do you think is coming Because the horses pass the His record, as listed by the out better with the checks, the Harness Racing Institute, shows poorer. grandstand more often and the seamen who have trouble cash­ 64 stakes wins. Since 1946, he Because of his fondness for the driver "has to be clever to keep ing them, or the company with has won 695 races and picked up Hungarian people, Mac discovered it's money in the bank? the horse on his gait," Mac be­ over half-million dollars in prize that the Huhgarian authorities had All of this has been discussed, lieves harness racing might be money. His fastest race, he racalls an eye on him. One day, on the and this trip brought it to a " more enjoyable than flat racing. was 2:02 at Northville Downs, way to the track he saw the bodies One main difference between a aboard Billy Ellamore. Mac also head. We, the crewmembers of of six people hanging from a tree, the Santa Emilia, would appre­ remembers Millie Flip Flop, the your guide and following them, trotter and pacer, Mac pointed including one person he recog­ ciate it if the Union's negotiat­ first winner he had. The time was you reach your destiny." out, is the diagonal gait of the nized. Mac then made - up his ing committee would take up 2:16, at Harrison, Mich. In tribute to the men of the trotter, compared to the pacer's mind to leave Hungary and return this problem. We hope that they parallel gait. "I've raced against many lead­ to the United States. Panoceanic Faith and others like them, who are men of faith will see fit to change the pres­ ent contract, so that all draws Won Stakes Races on all the oceans of the world, let us pray that they may "reach are issued in American money, Mac has had no small measure their destiny" under God. at least where the currency does of success in his facing career. He not conflict with a foreign na­ has won the Illinois State Fair Rev. Lewis Delmage, S. J. tion's currency policy. Stakes race ten times, plus eight St. Joseph's CoUege Francis Napoli victories in the Hanover-Hempt, Philadelphia Tommy John Sanchez, born Steven Robert Brockett, bora ^ September 12, 1967, to Seafarer October 14, 1967, to Seafarer HALAULA yiCTORY (Isthmian). No- Heraclio and Mrs. Sanchez, De­ Clarence R. and Mrs. Brockett, vember 5—Chairman, P. Livingston j Sec­ Crew Donates Gift retary, Harold D. Strauss. No beefs and troit, Michigan. Hanover, Maryland. Urges Cash Draws no disputed OT reported by department To Children's Fund delegates. Fine chow and good service. In Foreign Ports To The Editor: Pedro Gonzales, bom March To The Editor: OAKLAND (Sea-Land), October 22— 12, 1967, to Seafarer Gilbert R. Anita Marie McKay, born Oc­ We have received a donation Chairman, A. Panagopoulos; Secretary, As we all know, the issuing BJddie Bonefont. Brother F. Aponte was and Mrs. Gonzales, San Antonio, tober 21, 1967, to Seafarer Mur- from the crew members of the elected to serve as ship's delegate. Mo­ of traveller's checks as draws Penn Vanguard in memory of tion was made to find out why these ships Texas. dick and Mrs. McKay, Alpena, don't pay the same scale wages as do the Michigan. , has been in the SIU Agreement the SIU crewmen who lost their mariner tyiie ships. Motion made to con­ tact Union and see if they can put for a number of years. This is lives in the sinking of the Pan- through an amendment to the shipping designed to protect the seaman oceanic Faith. rulCT so that hook members can have Irene Harriette Dongen, born preference regarding watches when both from unstable currencies We at Sunland Training Cen­ shipped out together with B and C Men. to Seafarer Isidore and Mrs. Don­ Joseph Myers, born October 1, in some foreign countries and gen, Brooklyn, N. Y. ter in Miami feel these men and 1967, to Seafarer Daniel W. and from the black market. men like them are the reason Mrs. Myers, Toledo, Ohio. In many countries, there is a America is the greatest of all limit on the use of American nations. Sunland has a canteen Leticia Camarena, born July draws in port. We think it is fund that is used for boys and 23, 1967, to Seafarer Camilo and time for a change since the girls who have no spending Mrs. Camarena, Houston, Texas. Tony Curtis Cormier, .born Oc­ seaman today is getting the money. The donation has been tober 16, 1967, to Seafarer Joseph short end of the stick. deposited in this fund and will and Mrs. Cormier, Opelousas, In Europe, there is little bring weeks of joy to some of Annette Velazquez, born March Loui^ana. traffic in black market currency, our precious children. 14, 1967, to Seafarer Eusebio and and' you can usually receive Because of the nature of this Mrs. Velazquez, New Orleans, <1/ your dollar's worth. However, gift and the display of broth­ Louisiana. in the Far East the situation is erly love shown by the men ALCOA COMMANDER (Alcoa), No­ Renee Lynn Peavoy, born Oc­ different. who sent it, we look upon this vember 22—Chairman, Q. P. Bailey ; Secre­ tary, John Waith. Brother Ijewis P. Led- tober 5, 1967, to Seafarer Lloyd In Japan, you can't chqnge donation as one of the finest ingham was elected to serve as ship's —— delegate. Vote of thanks was extended Karl Sven Vinson, born June and Mrs. Peavoy, New Orleans, any money unless you take it to we have ever had the privilege to the steward department for a job well 24, 1967, to Seafarer Glen E. and Louisiana. a bank. If the bank is closed, or receiving. On behalf of our' done. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Motion was made to Mrs. Vinson, Prichard, Alabama. yon might get someone to children please accept my sin­ write a letter to Headquarters regarding the contract agreement. change your'dollars, but he will cere and most humble thanks. not take traveller's checks. Arnold Cortazzo, Michael McTavlch, bora Sep­ Nancy Ann Ciaglo, bora De­ In Korea, there is a black STEEL NAVIGATOR asthmian). No- Education Director vember 12—Chairman, H. M. Gloesop; tember 20, 1967, to Seafarer Rob­ cember 27, 1966, to Seafarer market. In the Philippines, Secretary, Fred Morris. 128.00 in ship's Superintendent fund. No beefs were reported by depa^ ert John and Mrs. McTavich, Marion S. and Mrs. Ciaglo, New­ Formosa, Thailand and Hong ment delegates. Crew in good spirits. Sugar Notch, Peimsylvania. ark, California. Kong, people want green dol­ Sunland Training Center

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FINAL DEPARTURES

Joseph Gilliard, 59: Brother Joseph Falrman, 50: Heart W. H. (Red) Sininioiis, meeting clialrnian aboard the Del Ore (Delta), sends word that "a cou- Gilliard died October 25, at St. failure claimed the life of Brother pie of the boys from the Montcello Victory came over for a visit ' recently while both ships were Luke's Hospital, Fairman on No­ in Trinidad. Among the crewmen who paid a call to their fellow Seafarers were Jack Mullis and vember 15, in New York City. Dewey Bell of the deck depart­ At the time of his Philadelphia. He Eddie Bonefont, meeting secre­ Seafarers on the Globe Ex­ death he was on sailed as an oiler ment. Simmons said that both crews enjoyed the visit since, "it tary, writes from the Oakland plorer (Maritime Overseas) have an SIU pension. and was employed (Sea-Land) that started an arrival Brother Gilliard by the Curtis Bay gets lonesome on some of those long hauls and you never get a F. Aponte has pool, so they joined the union Towing Com­ would have chance to visit with your ship­ been elected to in New York and pany. A native of serve as ship's enough money for lived in that city. Philadelphia, mates from an­ other ship." The delegate and F. a movie projector, A native of South Brother Fairman secretary crew has been Diaz will be the meeting Carolina, he sailed as a cook and was a resident of that city. Dur- Frank Radzvila "enjoying another new movie direc­ baker. His last ship was the Rob­ World War II, he served in the tor. A. Panagop- reported. Clar­ 1 good run to West in Sherwood. Surviving is his Army. He joined the IBU in oulos, meeting ence Jacks, meet­ Africa." They wife, Corine, of New York. The Philadelphia. Surviving is his „ , chairman, report- ing chairman, re­ had some rough Radzvila burial was in Woodlawn Ceme­ wife, Beatrice. The burial was in Panagoponlos ported that the weather, but tery, Bronx, N. Y. Holy Cross Cemetery. discussed how they can best utilize ship's delegate, Frank Schutz has things are getting the new movie camera the com­ received a vote of thanks for his better, said Sim­ 4^ Simmons pany put aboard for the enter­ fine work. Schutz in turn, compli­ mons. Loyola K. tainment of the crew. No beefs mented the steward department Howard Gates, 42: Brother Evans of the engine department reported as the ship heads for an for the fine Thanksgiving meal John Melas, 26: An automobile Cates died on November 3, while is the new ship's delegate. accident claimed the life of Broth­ sailing aboard Oakland payoff. they prepared. Department dele­ the Transhart- gates report no problems and the er Melas, Sept. Music lovers on the Steel Navi­ <1> 26, in Knoxville, ford. The ship payoff, scheduled for the Gulf gator (Isthmian) have each do­ Harold Strauss, meeting secre­ area, should be a good one. Tenn. He recently was in Bombay nated $1.00 for tary of the Halaula Victory (Isth­ joined the SIU at the time of radio speakers in mian), reports and had sailed as death. Brother that book shelves The steward department aboard order to have the Floridian (United Maritime) wiper. A native of Cates was born music in the mess have been in­ New York City, in Texas and stalled in the rec­ "is doing a terrific hall, meeting job," according to he joined the un­ resided in Mar- reation room and chairman H. M. word ion in that port. rero. La. He join­ a library will be from Bob GIossop informed Lasso, meeting His last ship was ed the SIU in the port of New the LOG. Accord­ installed as soon chairman. Chief the Mayaguez. He and his wife, Orleans. He sailed as a pumpman ing to Fred Mor­ as possible. W. Patricia, were residents of Knox­ and machinist. Brother Cates had Retenbacher, AB, steward Carlos Morris ris, meeting sec­ Luna is most co­ ville. The body was cremated in previously sailed on the Del Sud. retary, there are was hospitalized. Maryville, Tenn. Surviving is his widow, June Strauss P. Livingston, operative, Lasso no beefs and the crew is in good reported and in Cates, of Marrero. meeting chairman, informed the spirits. The ship's treasury totals addition to regu­ $23, treasurer Roque Magaraeg LOG. The crew wishes him a Lasso speedy recovery. Tom Fleming, lar meals, "it is reported. After stops in Karachi, not unusual to see Mexican Ta- ship's delegate, reported fine chow, Joseph Thibodeaux, 42: Broth­ Kenneth McAvoy, 47: Brother Bombay and Calcutta, the ship mali's, Italian baked sweet sau­ good service, and no beefs or dis­ er Thibodeaux died on October McAvoy died of a cerebral injury will pay off in New Orleans sage, arroz con polio (chicken and puted overtime. 12, at St. Eliza­ on Oct. 15 in the shortly after the New Year. rice, Spanish style), Chinese chow beth's Hospital, Seattle USPHS mein and Polish stuffed cabbage." Beaumont, Texas. hospital. He sail­ In addition, crewmember Clyde He was born in ed in the engine Woods "is considered one of the Louisiana" and department and PERSONALS finest bakers in the Gulf Coast lived in Jennings, joined the Union area and the crew of the Floridian La. An AB, Thi­ in San Francisco. extends a vote of thanks to the bodeaux joined McAvoy was Concorcio Padios Canada, or telephone 613-393- entire stewards department for a the SIU in Hous­ born in New Please contact Kenneth L. 2985, as soon as you can. job well done," Lasso reported. ton. He served York City and White, 1212 Broadway, Oakland, ^ with the Coast Guard from 1942 made his home in New Orleans. Calif., tel. 451-6732 collect, in — 4,— "Being away from home on His last vessel was the Wild to 1946. His last ship was the regard to a very important per­ Thanksgiving day on the Del Sol Del Valle. Surviving is a sister, Ranger. He served for three years David J. Taylor sonal matter. isn't too bad when Mrs. Emily Hanks, of Jennings. in the Navy. The burial was in Your mother, Mrs. Corinne Taylor, would like you to contact you have a chief The burial was in Istre Cemetery, Holyrood Cemetery, Seattle Wash­ steward like Ed­ Jennings. ington. Friends of Juan Rueda her at P. O. Box 455, 1104 Beech St., West Lake, La. 70669. die Stough, a He is a patient at USPHS Hos­ chief cook like Burial at Sea Aboard the Transpacific pital in Staten Island, N. Y., and W. Randall and a would appreciate a visit by some baker like Leon of his friends. Francis A. Warren Franklin," ship's Frank Raviell delegate Robert Please contact your mother im­ Callahan reports Callahan Your daughter, Sharon, would mediately regarding an extremely from the Del Sol like you to contact her in Balti­ important matter. (Delta). We are proud of the more as soon as possible in regard menu they turned out, Callahan to a very important matter. said. "A lot of hard work went Harry Peek into this menu. The crew thanks Vernon Atkins Please contact Mrs. Laurence the chief steward and entire stew­ Jeri Hahn, 51 South Milton St., Wessels, 2225 Gentilly Blvd., ard department." The menu in­ St. Paul, Minn., 55105, would New Orleans, La. 70122, or phone cluded roast prime ribs and ham like you to contact her as soon 944-6532, in regard to an impor­ in addition to turkey, Callahan as possible. tant matter. reported. <|> Income Tax Refunds Editor, • Income tax checks are being SEAFARERS LOG, , S held for the following SIU mem­ 675 Fourth Ave., • bers by Jack Lynch, Room 201, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232. • SUP Building, 450 Harrison St., I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my • San Francisco, Calif., 94105: name on your mailing list. (Frint information) • Margarito Boija, Winfred S. Dan­ iel, Andre W. Deriger. • NAWE .... • —— Henry D. McRorie S STREET ADDRESS ^ Please contact your mother at • CITY STATE...r... ZIP...../ • 1201 Woodland Ave., Monroe, • TO AVOID DUFUCATION; If you ara an old wAaeribar and h^ • dwnga • North Carolina. • of addraas, fdaaaa giro your formar atMraw balow! ^ • The ashes of Seafarer John Flanagan were committed to the deep in a traditional burial at sea on Aug. 11, aboard the Transpacific. Sea­ William and Donald Guernsey 8 AUUIfIS i.... . I farers and officers paid final respects as the body was lowered into Please contact your brother, • QTY '• • • ••••..!.!.jy*.*'*9 the sea. Captain A. Bellhouse read a final prayer for Brother John. James, in Bloomfield, Ontario, TbiiiiiitfiiiiHiiiMiMaRMRBBBBamaMiRBMBBMNMHfmi! Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG December 8, 1967

. -VT'5»VD:' Hibathi Stove Turns Out the Chow ON THE •I:;,/;; When Churlie Noble Blows Stusk PUERTO RICO RUN When Typhoon Emma tore the galley stove stack off, the Seafarers aboard the American Pride visualized a voyage from Japan to Formosa without the benefit of hot meals. Fortunately, the inge­ The Seatrain New York arrived recently nuity and enterprise of the crew saved the day. at Edgewater, New Jersey, with a cargo of A day out of Yokosuka, Ja- ^ containers after a trip to Puerto Rico, The pan, the ship met the full force The galley stove went back into with the burning wood and stacks vessel is a regular on that run. According of the typhoon, sending the stove operation when the ship left Kee- of kindling. The hibachis are no Lung. stack, better know as the Charlie longer needed and the decks have to the Seafarers aboard it was smooth sail- By this time, the men had be­ Noble, crashing to the deck. Un­ been cleaned, but the mgike-shift ing all the way. come accustomed to the Oriental- able to use the stove and faced cooking devices are still sitting on style of cooking, so the return to with a shipful of hungry Sea­ deck, just aft of the galley. The normal was almost regretted. farers, the cooks cornered the men just can't throw them over­ There was a certain fascination first assistant engineer. Explain­ board. ing the situation, they asked him to build two small hibachi-like Robin Hood Seafarers Aid Gl By Mustering Out Dog 'Joe* Seafarers aboard the Robin Hood helped re-unite a GI and his dog when the ship returned to Bayonne, N. J., from a run to Viet­ nam. The dog, an 11-month-old mongrel, was ten days old when Lopez Army Specialist Frank Coronato but Joe wouldn't do it," O'Keefe of Staten Island bought him The Seatrain New York lies alongside dock, waiting to be unloaded. devices. A hibachi is a small from a Vietnamese boy. related. stove used throughout the Far Lives a Dog's Life East. For six days, the steward The vessel was loading at the department turned out near- Saigon docks in September when Joe "adjusted to sea life" quick­ normal menus with the hibachis Coronato and the dog arrived. ly, Carlos Travieso "Of the Steward until repairs could be completed James O'Keefe, who sailed as chief department told the LOG. Joe in Kee-Lung. electrician on the Robin Hood, spent most of his time on the bridge and in the saloon. The Nobody on the American Pride said that Cap­ tain George crew built him a doghouse, but he would have blamed steward Rob­ didn't spend any time there, pre­ ert Bosco and chief cook Leonides Douglas offered to take the dog ferring to sleep in the Captain's Lopez if they gave in to the ele­ room. ments and served cold plates. The aboard since the GI, who was re­ "He really had the run of the heavy seas made cooking and serv­ ship," Travieso said. "He was a ing difficult, to say the least. With turning to the states by plane, good dog and got along with ev­ the stove's stack—or Charlie No­ erybody. He would even watch ble—immobilized, the crew was lacked the $160 for air freight to the men going through fire boat prepared to face the worst. Night Travieso drills." cook and baker Estal Potts and take the dog with him. "The Captain thought he Since Joe had the necessary' Issac V. Brown (right) of the deck department, enjoyed Rafael De Arce, made every effort a visit from his buddy, Anibal Albe, who .sails in to light the damaged stove, but would do the man a favor," shot, getting him aboard the Rob­ the result was a galley full of thick O'Keefe explained. in Hood was no problem, but the steward department of Seatrain San Juan, docked black smoke and much coughing Joe, a brown and tan mongrel, crew feared that getting him off alongside the New York. Both men reported good trips. and eyewiping. was immediately adopted by the might be a tussle. Since he was ship's 44-man crew. "He was a so well treated, the men wondered Determined Effort if he would even remember his friendly dog, quiet and never old master, Coronato. Joe, how­ But the cooks were determined barked," O'Keefe said. The only to perform their duty and turn out ever, was happy to be re-united exception was when he saw a few with his old friend and is now the not only good food, but hot. After dogs running around on the dock a consultation with the steward second dog in the household. before the ship left. The Captain and galley staff, the first assistant After all the SIU chow Joe engineer began cutting and weld­ would kid O'Keefe by telling Joe consumed, perhaps it was no sur­ •'M ing at 9 a.m. Bosun; Frank Smith to "go bite the chief electrician. prise he refused his first dogfood. rt IS chipped in by chopping wood. ,?v'' i Their efforts were rewarded with a hot meal, served on schedule, at Sfl/ Lifeboat Class No, 190 Weighs Anchor 11:30 that same morning. With a routine established, no­ / ' body gave bosun Smith, chopping Dimas Mendoza, AB, is heaving up on slack gangway. and splitting dunnage every morn­ He was on gangway watch during the payoff. Brother ing, a second glance. Richard Mendoza, who joined the union during World War II, Laprise, crew messman and Shelly is a native of Puerto Rico and resides in the Bronx, N. Y. Atkins, pantryman, carried pails of the split wood to the galley. Justo Vejasquez of engine depart- Ralph Snider sailed as oiler on Some men enjoyed the smell of ment finds time for a last cup this trip. A native of West Vir- fresh wood, even claiming it lent of coffee before collecting his ginia. Snider is recent addition a special flavor to the food. pay. He is 26-year union vet. to the SIU, joining in New York. BuUd New CharUe Noble Finally, the American Pride reached Kee-Lung and a contract was made for repairs. The culi­ nary ordeal was not over, since Oriental-style cooking continued two more days while the new Charlie Noble was being built.

These men passed Coast Guard examinations and now hold lifeboat tickets. They attended the SlU's lifeboat school at Mill Basin, Brooklyn. In the front row, L-R, are: Gregorio Roman, Alberto Matos, David Ball, Harold Finne. In the second row: Instructor Paul McGaharn, Antonio Sgagliardich, William Dickey, Walter Gronek. The SlU's 190th lifeboat class graduated on Nov. 14th.

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ELIZABETH PORT (Sea-Land), No­ CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities vember 7 — Chairman. J. L. Sinlard; Service), November 17—Chairman, None; Secretary, J. L. Pagan. No beefs were Secretary, R. D. Reed. Brother Francis reported by department delegates. Mo­ Guillory was elected to serve as ship's UNFAIR tion was made to bring the pension plan delegate. Ship short one pumpman and Schedule df up to 20 years sea time, at any age. one messman. Motion made to have the dispatcher put book numbers on shipping cards of all new men. TO LABOR Membership Meetings STEEL AGE (States MaHne), October 22—Chairman, J. W. Canarad: Secretary, STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Novem­ P. T. Motus. $6.65 in ship's fund. Ship's ber 22 Chairman, Fred Shaia; Secretary. delegates reported that everything is run­ Elliott Gorum. $40.00 in ship's fund. DO NOT BUY ning smoothly. Beef in deck department to be taken up SIU-AGLIWD Meetings with boarding patrolman. Motion made that green money be put out for all draws Seafarers and their families are New Orleans .Jan. 16—2:30 p.m. TRANSORLEANS (Hudson Water­ instead of travelers checks. ways). November 12—Chairman. L. Jack­ urged to support a consumer boy­ Mobile Jan. 17—^2:30 p.m. DIRECTORYof son ; Secretary, Milton Phelps. Ship's dele­ cott by trade unionists against Wilmington . .Jan. 22—2:00 p.m. gate extended a vote of thanks to all de­ SEAFARER (Marine Carriers), No­ UNION HALLS partments. Ship to be fumigated upon vember 11—Chairman, W. Pederson ; Sec­ various companies whose products San Francisco. Jan. 24—2:00 p.m. arrival in port. retary, Ed LaRoda. Vote of thanks to are produced under non-union the steward department for the good food Seattie Jan. 26—2:00 p.m. and service. A few small beefs were conditions, or which are "unfair New York .. .Jan. 8—2:30 p.m. AMERICAN PRIDE (American Sea- taken care of. to labor." (This listing carries the SIU Afiantic, Gulf, Lakes lanes,) November 18—Chairman, Frank Phiiadeiphia .Jan. 9—^2:30 p.m. D. Smith: Secretary, David E. Francis. name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ Baltimore Jan. 10—2:30 p.m. & Inland Waters $8.22 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Victory volved, and will be amended from Detroit Jan. 12—2:30 p.m. the steward department for a job well Carriers), November 13—Chairman, James done. EL Gross ; Secretary, Frank E. Rose. Some time to time.) Houston . .. .Jan. 15—2:30 pan. Inland Boatmen's Union disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Crew Great Lakes SIU Meetings United Industrial Workers SPITFIRE (General Cargo), August SO received a radiogram from the Master of •—Chairman, C. McGalagin; Secretary, the SS San Jose thanking them for the Detroit . . .Jan. 2—2:00 p.m. H. K. Smith. No beefs were reported by rescue of its twenty crewmembers. The Stitzel-Weller Distmcries PRESIDENT department delegates. Everything is run­ sum of $205.00 was donated to the crew of "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" Alpena .. .Jan. 2—7:00 p.m. Paul Hall ning smoothly. Brother J. T. Wolfe was the San Jose. Buffalo .Jan. 2—7:00 p.m. elected to serye as ship's delegate. "Cabin Still," W. L. Writer EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Bouibon whiskeys Chicago . .Jan. 2—^7:00 p.m. Cal Tannar AMERICAN PRIDE f American Sea- Cleveland .Jan. 2—^7:00 p.m. lanes), October 15—Chairman. Frank J. (Distillery Workers) VICE PRESIDENTS Smith: Secretary. David B. Francis. $8.22 Duluth .. .Jan. 2—^7:00 p.m. Earl Shtpard Lindsay Williams in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by Robart Matthaws DIGEST department delegates. Vote of thanks to Frankfort .Jan. 2—7:00 p.m. the steward department for a job well SECRETARY-TREASURER done. Kingsport Press Great Lakes Tug and Al Karr of SIU "World Book," "Chlldcraft" Dredge Region HEADQUARTERS «75 4fh Ava., Bktyn. MINOT VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), (Printing Pressmen) Chicago Jan. 16—7:30 p.m. HY 9-UOO November- 25—Chairman, John Elddins ; (Typographers, Bookbinders) ALPENA, Mich 127 Rivar St. Secretary, Arthur R. Rudnicki. Brother tSauit Ste. Marie EL 4-3ilt Ted Weems was elected to serve as new (Machinists, Stereotypers) ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was ex­ Jan. 18—^7:30 p.m. BALTIMORE, Md I2I( E. Baltimora St. tended to Brother Ellmer P. Shaw, resign­ EA 7-4900 MEETING!^ ing ship's delegate, for a job well done. Buffalo Jan. 17—^7:30 p^m. No beefs were reported by department BOSTON, Mas 177 Stata St. Duluth Jan. 19—^7:30 p.m. Rt 2-0140 delegates. Jamestown Sterling Corp. BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washington St. OCEANIC WAVE (Oceanic Pioneer), (United Furniture Workers) Cleveland .. .Jan. 19—^7:30 p.m. SIU TL 3-9259 September 9—Chairman, Louis E3. Meyers; IBU TL 3-9259 Secretary. Emery Gibbs. Vote of thanks PECOS (Oriental Ebcporters), Novem­ Toledo Jan. 19—^7:30 p.m. was extended to the entire steward de­ ber 25—Chairman. Louis W. Cartright; CHICAGO, III 9383 Ewing Ava. partment for the fine food served during Secretary, C. E. Turner. $29.90 in ship's Detrmt Jan. 15—^7:30 p.m. SIU SA 1-0733 the voyage. Motion was made that all fund. Ship's delegate reported that the IBU ES 5-9570 members in good standing, belonging to captain and department heads were White Furniture Co. Milwaukee .. .Jan. 15—7:30 p.m. the SIU, should have been granted across pleased with the crew for their good CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. the board wage increases. The rank and conduct. No betds were reported. Mo­ (United Furniture Workers of SIU Inland Boatmen's Union MA 1-5450 file feels that wages are based on the coat tion was made to have the maintenance America) DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jaffarson Ava. of living and therefore all members are and cure raised from the present $8.00 VI 3-4741 entitled to the cost of living increase, per day to $15.00 per day in accordance New Orleans .Jan. 16—5:00 p.m. regardless of rating. Crew has been very with the increase in cost of living. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. patient about the adverse conditions on Mobile Jan. 17—5:00 p.m. RA 2-4110 this vessel since leaving Seattle. Promises have been made to correct outstanding re­ Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Philadelphia . .Jan. 9—5:00 p.m. FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 pairs, but nothing has been done. Beef MAIDEN CREEK (Gulf Puerto Rico), 415 Main St. about money draws to be taken up with November 26—Chairman, W. J. Barnes; Work Shoes . . . Baltimore (licensed and EL 7-2441 patrolman at port of payoff. Secretary, C. J. Nail. Motion was made Sentry, Cedar Chest, unlicensed) Jan. 10—5:00 p.m. HOUSTON, Tax 5804 Canal St. to have a shore gang for all ships when WA 8-3207 in port so that all men can receive their Statler Norfolk Jan. 11—5:00 p.m. one day a month off without having to JACKSONVILLE, FU 2808 Paarl St. SS TRANSCHAMPLAIN (Hudson double for other crewmembers. Those Men's Shoes . . . Houston Jan. 15—5:00 p.m. EL 3-0987 Waterways). November 12 — Chairman, men could be hired or called for from Jarman, Johnson & Charles O'Neil; Secretary, Charles O'Neil. Union hall. Motion made that port time JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomary St. No beefs reported by department dele­ should be paid to all unlicensed person­ Murphy, Crestworth, Railway Marine Region HE 3-0104 gates. Ship is in need of many repairs. nel in all ports after 5 p.m. and before M08ILE, Ala I South Lawranca St. 8 a.m., the same as the mates and en­ (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Philadelphia HE 2-1754 gineers receive aboard SIU ships. Mo­ tion made for $3UU.UU a month pension Jan. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. NEW ORLEANS, La 830 Jackson Ava. COLUMBIA VICTORY (Columbia), for those with 20 years in the Union and Baltimore Tal. 529-7548 November 1()—Chairman, A. Michelet; with 12 years sea time, regardless of age. NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. Secretary, J. Kackur. No beefs reported. Baltimore Luggage Co. Jan. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Tal. 822-1892 Elverything is running smoothly. Brother Norman Mendelson was elected to serve Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart *Norfolk PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2804 S. 4th St. as ship's delegate. FLORIDIAN (South Atlantic Carib.), DE 8-3818 November 30—Chairman, Bob Lasso; Sec­ Stariite luggage Jan. 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1348 Savanth St. retary, A. Aronica. Vote of thanks was Starflite luggage extended to the entire steward depart­ Jersey City SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. ment for the exceptionally good food and (International Leather Goods, DO 2-4401 NATIONAL DEFENDER (National service. Suggestion was made to raise the Jan. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnandai Juncos Transport), October 6—Chairman, J. entry rating's wages to meet the high Plastics and Novelty Workers Stop 20 McKreth; Secretary, J. A. Hollen. Brother cost of living. Ship's delegate will con­ Union) Jimmy Hollen was elected to serve as tact agent in San Juan in regards to United Industrial Woriiers Tal. 724-2848 ship's delegate. Everything is running SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Avanua smoothly with no disputed OT. Vote of lodging beef when ship was in Jackson­ New Orleans .Jan. 16—^7:00 p.m. MA 3-4334 thanks was extended to the steward de­ ville. ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Dal Mar partment for a job well done. Mobile Jan. 17—^7:00 p.m. CE 1-1434 "HIS" brand men's clothes New Yoric .. .Jan. 8—^7:00 p.m. TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. DEL MUNDO (Delta). November 5— Tal. 229-2788 Chairman, Joe Catalanotto; secretary, Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond Philadelphia . .Jan. 9—^7:00 p.m. WILMINGTON, Calif. .. 505 N. Marina Ava. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), Ramon Irizarry. Brother Gasper was blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa 834-2528 November 18—Chairman, Daniel Robin­ elected to serve as ship's delegate. Letter son ; Secretary, Andres Aguire. Brother was written to headquarters regarding Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman Baltimore ... .Jan. 10—7:00 p.m. YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isaya BIdg., Room 801 James M. Masters resigned as ship's dele­ retirement. $60.00 in ship's fund. No ^Houston ... .Jan. 15—7:00 p.m. 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku gate and Brother George Quinones was beefs were reported by department dele­ Brothers and Sewell Suits, 204971 Ext. 281 elected to serve in his place. gates. Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America)

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no Camels, Winston, Tempo, money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made Brandon, Cavalier and Salem Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is cigarettes given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. (Tobacco Workers International Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six Union) shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. months in the SEAFAREIRS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any headquarters of the various trust funds. member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or cd)li- gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. Peavy Paper Mill Products by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping (United Papermakers and rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ Paperworkers Union) the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ Board by certified mail, return receipt request^. The proper address for this is: ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take Ekirl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by Comet Rice Mills Co. prodncts writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution (International Union of United CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft ship. Know your contract riithts, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights Drinks and Distillery Workers) on tJie proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve ^ EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained the best interests of thenuelves, their families and their Union. To achieve these from publishing any article serving the political .purposes of any individual in the objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. (Stove, Furnace and Allied reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOO policy is vested in an editorial board which If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, Appliance Workers consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Elxecutive Board may delegate, or that he has been denied his eonstitational right of access to Union records or in­ International Union) from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibiiity. formation, he should immediately notify SIU President PanI Hall at headqnartcrs by eortUed mail, return receipt requested. Vol XXIX No. 25 SEAFARERSmOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO

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NCE again we are entering into the traditional card and service button have been assurances of qual­ whether a gift selected will be of real use to the per­ O holiday season. American families everywhere ity. They represent bStter products and services as son for whom it is intended. Much hard earned are already preparing for the festivities during which well as insurance that workers producing union prod­ money is thrown away each year on novelties or they will gather with their loved ones for Christmas ucts and offering union services are benefiting from gimmicks which are set aside and forgotten almost and New Year celebrations. the fruits of their labor. as quickly as they are received. The spirit of Christmas for Seafarers holds a spe­ " 'Good will to all men' is reiterated a thousand Equal caution must also be used in regard to chari­ cial significance not felt by most other laljor union­ times over with every union purchase by consumers table contributions while the traditional generosity of ists to whom long periods of separation from their from all walks of life. The blessings and benefits ob­ the holiday season gains momentum as Christmas ap­ families are not a prerequisite of their profession. Not tained by organizatioh and unionization have been proaches. American workers are, by nature, eager to all SIU members will be able to be home for the holi­ sprinkled upon all men—not a selected few—as the share their good fortune with those who are in need. days. True to the tradition of the American merchant result of organized labor's philosophy of true broth­ There are dozens of legitimate charities which care­ marine, many of them will be manning this country's erhood." fully account for all donations received and are vessels in all parts of the world or maintaining the worthy of our fullest support. However, there are vital sea lift to our fighting men in Vietnam. This Caution in buying, though important at all times, is doubly necessary as we get swept up in the enthu­ just as many shady operators seeking at every turn will always be the case for some Seafarers, but the to reap a dishonest buck from the generosity of well- spirit of the season and the exchange of brightly- siasm of Christmas shopping. The billions of dollars spent by manufacturers on enticing advertising and meaning citizens. To assure that your donations actu­ wrapped presents will help shorten the miles of sepa­ ally get to deserving causes instead of into the pocket ration somewhat—as it always has. fancy packaging all too often serve to camouflage shoddy goods of little or no worth which are poorly of some fast talk artist, make sure a charity is what But there is more to the holiday season than re­ made under non-union conditions. it claims to be before you give. newed family affection and giving. There is also Another area in which consumers are frequently buying. Between now and Christmas millions of un­ Distasteful as the hard facts are, many companies bilked is the one in which short term loans are of­ ion members will be spending millions of their hard- make full use of the Christmas season in an annual fered to offset the expense of Christmas shopping. As earned dollars for goods and services. In spending campaign to push tons of junk merchandise off on often as not you will find that the interest rates on these dollars care must be exercised to insure that an unsuspecting public, ohen the gay package in such loans are unreasonably high and sometimes they support only union-made products. which a product is sold is worth more than the item might amount to almost as much as the loan itself. As pointed out by Joseph Lewis, secretary-treasurer it contains. What makes matters worse is the fact It is much better to shop within your means than to of the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades that the large amounts spent to promote inferior be bogged down with burdensome obligations after Department, "these millions will earmark job secu­ items, and make them attractive to the eye, inflate all the festivities are over. rity for fellow trade unionists over the entire country, already exhorbitant prices to an even higher level. Above all, don't forget that union label and boy­ not just over the holidays, but throughout the year." The best rule for the consumer to follow in Christ­ cott anti-union manufacturers. The AFL-CIO re­ "Since the early days of the trade union move­ mas shopping is to examine all goods for the union minds all unionists that "a union purchase is power ment," Lewis notes, "the Union label, shop card, store label while also exercising careful thought as to without words—silent-ntight!"