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Oct. 16 SEAFARERS LOG 1964 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO
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November 3—the day on wlilch the citizens of this nation will go to the polls to vote for the candidates of their choice in national, state and local elections—might well be called show-down daiy for the American working community, at least. For, on that day, insofar as the national election for the office of President is concerned, it will be determined whether our country will continue as a true free society for all citizens or whether it will scrap all of the human values which have made it a great nation. The American labor movement is acutely aware of the American citizen's stake in this election. It is keenly aware that the security and welfare of American workers hinge on the outcome of the election. It is for this reason, the AFL-CIO Executive Board, con sisting of the president its member unions as well as the department officials of the AFL-CIO, gave its unqualified endorsement to the candidacies of President Johnson and his vice-presiden'ial running mate Senator Humphrey. And the AFL-CIO has issued an appeal to all trade unionists to vote for the Democratic candidate and repu diate the policies and positions of Republican candidates Barry Gold- water and William Miller. Why did the trade union movement decide as it did—for Johnson and against Goldwater? The answer is simple. A look at the records of the candidates clearly shows that there is no alternative to the deci sion it made. Never before in modern American political history have the differences in the issues and the positions of national candidates been so sharply defined. Never before have the candidates positions been so diametrically opposed on so many issues of grave concern The SlU-contracted Notionol Defender as she is being loaded with record wheat cargo. to the voters. The National Defender came ting the new wheat cargo rec Personal party preferences among the voters are immaterial because NEW ORLEANS—Seafarers the issues override everything else. Every social advancement that manning the National Defender very close to topping the all- ord for New Orleans, utilized time wheat cargo hauled by an unusual two berths and four has been achieved in this country by the American worker and the have delivered a record 1.9 another SlU-manned vessel, belts, compared to the berth rest of the citizenry would be undermined if the Goldwater-Miller ticket million bushels of wheat the Manhattan. The Nation and two belt ordinarily util is successful. On every issue of importance to the American worker, weighing 52,250 t(ms to Pak- al Defender's previous top ized by loading vessels. Goldwater's position is on record. He is opposed to free collective i.stan, India. The tonnage rep load was 48,000 tons of wheat The National Defender is bargaining, social security, medical care for the aged, aid to education, resented the^ largest wheat which were leaded here last owned by the National Ship public housing and equal op'portunities and treatment for all citizens. cargo ever leaded onto a ves Spring. ping and Trading Company of He has demonstrated contempt and lack of concern for the under sel in the port of New Orleans. The National Defender, in set New York City. privileged, the unskilled and those who have been deprived of edu cational opportunity. What is Goldwater for? He is on record in favor of national right- AFL-CIO President Meany Says to-work laws which would wreck union and job security. He is on record favoring military and foreign policies which could destroy millions of lives. He puts profits before people. His entire philosophy is against progress and contrary to every concept which has made Equal Treatment For All this great nation. It is for those reasons that the American labor movement is pushing, as it never before, has to bring voters out in record numbers on elec tion day to defeat these concepts which threaten every American Is Fight Of Trade Unions working man and woman. For Seafarers, the Goldwater policies have very definite significance. WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany has stated that the attainment of If put into practice, his attitudes on foreign policy, including our for equal treatment for all is the goal for which the labor movement is fighting. "The AFL- eign aid programs, could deal a crippling blow to the American mer chant marine and with it destroy the jobs of thousands and thousands CIO is for civil rights—without reservation and without delay," Meany declared. of American maritime workers. The labor federation presi-"*" This factor, along with the others, is why our international exec dent declared that commit 1776 are a sacred birthright of all their own experience. Unions utive board has also endorsed the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. And ment to the cause of equal in America, not subject to modifi were created to fight against in throughout the nation SlUNA affiliates in the deep sea, fish and rights must go beyond mere lip- cation or denial because of race, justice. They were instruments of cannery, inland waters and other fields have been making an all- service. He said that the U.S. la creed or national origin. protest, deplored by public officials out effort in conjunction with the AFL-CIO Committee on Political and much of the citizenry. They bor movement is committed to "Unfortunately, to the shame of Education to have all eligible voters register and vote on election make civil rights a reality on the were often accused of flagrant civil day. The effectiveness of the SlU's voter registration effort was the nation, discrimination still ex disobedience. job, in the schools, at the polls, in ists. It must be wiped out if the demonstrated recently in the greater New York harbor area. In housing and in the area of public United States is to be truly the "For example, many trade union Hudson County, New Jersey, where the SlU was an active partici accommodation. champion of freedom in a world ists no older than middle age can pant in a (X>PE registration campaign. Over 10,000 eligible but pre where non-whites are an over well remember when local ordi viously unregistered voters were added to the voter lists as a Meany asserted that the trade nances or court injunctions forbade union movement, which has long whelming majority. direct result of our drive. the hoiding of a union meeting, So as the record clearly indicates, it is Important for all Seafarers been in the forefront of the fight "Mere acknowledgement, mere even on private property owned or and their families to protect their own security and well-being by against injustice, knows full well lip-service to equal rights is not rented by the union. The 'right that the struggle to achieve equal enough. The labor movement is going to the polls on election day and voting for the ticket which is of the people peaceably to assem best for them—^the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. rights will be a long, hard one. He committed to a positive program ble' often had no local standing, said that the goal of the labor fed for translating principle Into real despite the Constitution. Workers eration was to see that all workers ity on every front. This means on had no alternative; they followed share fully in every aspect of At New Jersey COPE Rally the job, in the schools, at the polls, the Constitution. American life. in housing and in all places of pub The full text of Meany's state lic accommodation — restaurants, "In the end the law was on their ment follows: hotels, everywhere. side. Local restrictions on the right of assembly were struck down "The AFL-CIO is for civil rights "Success will not come easily. by the Supreme Court. Civil dis —without reservations and without The record of the last century obedience has all but vanished as delay. proves that man's rights do not be a trade union tactic because the "The labor movement is de come established by declaring rights of labor are now backed by dicated to those truths that were them to be valid; logic and reason the force of law. Surely the rights self-evident to the authors of the do not automatically prevail over of man deserve no less. Declaration of Independence. The bigotry. "It would be futile to pretend rights so eloquently affirmed in "Unions know this well, out of (Continued on page 17)
Members of Seafarers delegation, posters in hand, join in welcome for Vice Presidential candidate Hubert H. Hum phrey at Jersey City Armory. The rally, which drew 23,000 persons, was backed by Hudson County COPE, in which SlU is playing active role. dotober i^M BEAtARERS LOG Pacre Three SIU fyag Cargo Rreferncp Application$ Food For Peace Bill Gets President Johnson's OK The battle of the SIU and other segments of maritime to extend the Food for Peace program under Public Law 480 without any crippling amendments added on came to a successful conclusion last week when President Johnson signed the bill extending the law for^ can-flag ships get their fair share tation in United States flag vessels two more years. As a re of P.L. 480 cargoes. The SIU to be paid in dollars by the na sult of the victory a sub fought the attempts to cripple P.L. tions or organizations with whom stantial number of American 480 because of its direct effect such agreements are entered into." seamen's jobs have been upon the employment of Seafarers American flag ship operators, and other American seamen. Un faced with costs that must be paid saved. der the provisions of the Cargo for in dollars, strongly opposed the The fight to extend the law had Preference law, American flag- measure. Maritime labor also op been marked by attempts to whit posed the provisions because its When the I LA hit the bricks in Philly, the SlU coffee wagon vessels must carry at least 50 per tle dovm the role of U.S. ships in cent of government-generated car effect would be to further reduce provided refreshment for pickets on the waterfront. SlU carrying P.L. 480 cargoes. These goes, which includes the flow of the amount of jobs in the industry. Port Agent John Fay, (second from left) talks to picket as provisions were beaten down surplus foodstuffs that will move Other provisions in the approved coffee from wagon is dispensed to pickets. through the efforts of the SIU, and overseas under P.L. 480." The version of P.L. 480 would bar other maritime groups. The Union newly-extended law calls for $3.5 Yugoslavia and Poland from reach intends to keep a watchful eye on million in surplus foodstuffs to be ing agreements under Title I of the administration of the bill in distributed overseas. the bill. Both communist countries Taft-Hartley Halts order to make certain that Ameri- A provision in the Senate-j^assed would still be entitled to receive version of the law that would have U.S. surplus commodities under done serious damage to the U.S.- the bill's Title IV. What'8 Wrong flag shipping industry and threat The bill also bars any country I LA Strike Action ened the Jobs of American seamen whose ships trade with Cuba from NEW YORK—A Federal Court judge here has issued a With Maritime? was overhauled and amended in a making Title I agreements. Such restraining order preventing the AFL-CIO International The muddled state of the ^ conference committee. countries, the bill's wording says, Longshoremeh's Association from striking ports from Maine U.S. maritime industry is ex- j The provision would have hurt will no longer be considered as to Texas until after Decem."*' plored in a feature article onj the dollar position of U.S. flag "friendly countries," but will, as her 19. sisted on reducing the size of work pages 13-14 in this issue of the: shipping by forcing it to take a in the case of Yugoslavia and gangs. ILOG. The article highlights; portion of their charges for freight Poland, be able to purchase food The order extends a tem The SIU and its seafaring sec some of the major problems: movement in unstable or incon stuffs under Title IV. porary 10-day restraining order is tions, the SUP, MCS, MFOW and I affecting the various segments trovertible foreign currencies. The bill, which was extended for sued previously which would have AGLIWD District informed the of the merchant marine, the The revised provision says that a two-year period, rather than expired last week. The new order ILA of their solid support. ; causes behind them and sets the "Commodity Credit Corpora three as originally recommended, extends the strike ban to the full In extending the strike ban to I forth the SIU's recommenda tion shall finance ocean freight is seen as a gain for the maritime 80-day cooling-off period called for the full 80-day cooling-off period. tions for putting our maritime charges . . . only to the extent that industry. in the-Taft-Hartley Act procedure. Judge Irving Cooper denied a re ; industry on the road to re- such charges are higher (than It had a stormy passage through The strike by 60,000 ILA dock quest by ILA attorneys for a stipu icovery. The contents of the would otherwise be the case) by the two houses of Congress, and workers began in all Atlantic and lation that any wages and improve i article should be read and reason of a requirement that the was the subject of bitter floor Gulf coast ports at midnight, Sep ments in welfare and pensions be i discussed by all Seafarers be- commodities be transported in flights. It was battled through com tember 30, when the contract with made retroactive to the hour of the I cause it concerns their liveli- ; United States flag vessels. Such mittees and subjected to various the New York Shipping Association signing of the original, 10-day in 1 hoods and job security. agreements shall require the bal crippling amendments, all of expired, because the employers in junction. ance of such charges for transpor (Continued on page 4) Where The Presidential Candidates Stand PEACE TAXES PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"General war is SENATOR GOLDWATER—". . . There PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"The iin^portant SENATOR GOLDWATER—"Get rid of impossible. In a matter of moments you will either be a war, or we'll be subju point is that this bill (tax out) . . . means the whole graduated income tax."—Wash can wipe out from 50 to 100 million of gated without war . . . real nuclear war... Increasing income for almost every tax ington Star, December 8, 1961. our adversaries, or they can wipe out 50 I don't see how it can be avoided—^per "Government has a right to claim an to 100 million of our people ... So our haps five, ten years from now." —Los An payer and business in America. And those equal percentage of each man's wealth, purpose is to employ reasoned agreement geles News, April 17, 1964. earning the least, I am glad to say, will and no more."—Conscience of a Conser instead of ready agression, to preserve receive the most."—Remarks on signing vative. honor without a world in ruins."—Ad tax cut bill, February 26, 1964. QUESTION: "Do you really think it's dress to AFL-CIO Building Trades Con fair that a man with five million dollars ference, July 23, 1963. a year should pay the same rate as a man with five thousand?" PRESIDENT JOHNSON —"No responsi SENATOR GOLDWATER —"The United SENATOR GOLDWATER: "Yes, yes, I ble man will insist that we keep the door States should announce in no uncertain do."—Interview, Saturday Evening Post, closed against the opportunities which terms that we are against disarmament, August 31, 1963. seem to be opening. It is a tragic per that we need our armaments—all that we version of American leadership-^and a presently have and more..."—Why Not betrayal of American character—to ask Vicotry? "I suggest that this whole argu the people to greet with suspicion any ment for disarmament ... is an extremely talk of peace and to greet with applause dangerous exercise in complete and total HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY 1JXDER all talk of war."—Address to Governor's futility."—Address to Wings Club, New SOCIAL SECURITY Conference, July 23, 1963. York, November 12, 1962. PRESIDENT JOHNSON — "There is no SENATOR GOLDWATER—"When you EXTREMISM need ... for elderly people to suffer the say to Johnny, 'Don't worry about the personal economic disaster to which ma old man or your mother, we'll take care PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"Let us turn SENATOR GOLDWATER—"I am im jor illness all too commonly exposes them of them when they get older,' you've de away from the fanatics of the far left pressed by the type of people in it (the . . . There is a sound and workable solu stroyed his fredom there, the freedom of and the far right . . . from the apostles John Birch Society). They are the kind tion. Hospital insurance based on Social responsibility."—Face the Nation tele of bitterness and bigotry . . . from those we need in politics,"—Remarks in Los Security payments is clearly the best cast, January 26, 1961. (Sen. Goldwater who pour venom into our nation's blood Angeles, March 29, 1961. method of meeting the need."—Message also has attacked hospital care under stream." Message to Congress, November to Congress, February 10, 1964. Social Security as "immoral."—Los An 27, 1963. geles Times, June 12, 1962). uxioxs PRESIDENT JOHNSON—In every area SENATOR GOLDWATER—"The immense of human concern, the labor movement and ever-growing power of labor unions THE POOR- can take pride in itself as an instrument constitutes a grave danger to our econ to bring a better life to more people." omy." — Senate speech, September 24, PRESIDENT JOHNSON — "Unfortunate SENATOR GOLDWATER—"I'm tired of —Address to AFL-CIO Building Trades 1962. ly, many Americans live on the outskirts professional chiselers walking up and •Conferefice, March 24, 1964. of hope . . , Our task is to replace their down the streets who don't work and despair with opportunity."—State of the have no intention of working."—New JOBS — Union Adress, January 8, 1964. "To us York Times, July 19, 1961. "The fact is the old, the sick, the hungry, the help that most people who have no skills PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"We have a SENATOR GOLDWATER — "The only less (are) not failures to be forsaken, have no education for the same reason— commitment to full employment. We must way business can survive today is to cut but human beings to be helped."—Los low intelligence or low ambition."—New keep it, and we shall." —Address, White expenses, and that means cutting eih- Angeles speech, June 20, 1964. York speech, January 15, 1964. House, July 24, 1964. ployes."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 28, 1963. (Continued on page 21) Page Four SEAFARiSkS tO€i liW Major Naval Maneuvers % Using Two SIU Vessels By Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Two SlU-contracted freighters will take part in joint American-Spanish naval maneu Shipping Hits Peak in N.Y. vers off the coast of Spain later this month. The ships, the Del Sol (Delta Lines) and the Shipping in New York picked up sharply in the last period, mostly Couer D'Alene Victory (Victory Carriers), are two of a ten-vessel fleet of American-flag as a result of the ILA strike. The operators were in a hurry to have merchantmen that will help^ their ships loaded and cleared from the port before the strike deadline and they moved their sailing schedules up accordingly. The injunction to move troops and supplies addition to the ten privately-owned convinced of the fact that there is brought by the Federal Government under the "80-day" clause of the for a mock assault on south merchant ships, seven MSTS troop no adequate substitute to a mer Taft-Hartley Act will run out just before Christmas. Whether the ern Spain on (October 26. ships, freighters and tankers will chant fleet to assure quick reaction strike will continue or not after that time depends, of course, on the The exercise, called "Operation take part. to unforeseen military circum progress made at the bargaining table. The longshoremen are fighting Steelplke," will be spearheaded by The operation will help to stances. for their jobs and for basic rights, and the SIU, you can be sure, will 80 U.S. and 14 Spanish warships. emphasize the vital need for a The upcoming naval war games give them all the support necessary to help them win their battle. A U.S. Marine force of 28,000 men well-maintained U.S.-flag fleet of in Spain are comparable, but only On the local political scene, the SIU Railway Marine Region joined plus a battalion of Spanish Marines merchant vessels for use as a naval only in a broad sense, to with the members of the Hudson County Labor Council in nearby New will be used in the operation, which auxiliary in the event of war. In "Operation Big Lift" which was will take 44 days to complete. In fact, many military observers are carried out by the Air Force last Jersey to give Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Hubert H. year. While "Big Lift" saw a Humphrey a hearty welcome to Jersey City. An overflow crowd of 23,- whole division of troops transported 000 jammed the Jersey City armory and the surrounding streets. The from the U.S. to Europe in a few rally wrote a fitting close to the massive registration drive undertaken days, the effectiveness of the sol in Hudson County by COPE and other community organizations. The Sub-Detector Gets diers was dependent on the fact they SIU played a key role in the drive, which saw more than 7,000 new had their heavy equipment (tanks, voters added to the lists. In his speech, which was interrupted by sharp trucks, artillery, etc.) waiting for applause on occasion after occasion, Senator Humphrey told the them when they landed. Airpower fowd in the armory, "I know Belated U.S. Patent was, and still is, incapable of mov that America will send the 'sick oiler, says he is looking for an WASHINGTON—In 1943, at the height of the Allied drive ing heavy stocks of large equip rnd tired' candidates to a crush other coast hugger. ment on short order. Merchant ing defeat on November 3." The to rid the sea lanes , of the German submarines which were shipping, on the other hand, allows ."•'innesr/.a Democrat was talking Philadelphia Shipping has been good in preying on our all-important convoy routes, a U.S. inventor the military to move great amounts p. 30ut the Goldwater partisans who came up with a radar device^ = of supplies and bulky gear along have taken over the Republican Philadelphia during the last period. There were five payoffs, which suddenly tipped the Vibration from a submerged sub-; with the men who will use them. Party; the men who say they are marine. Ships, moreover, having the free •e'ck and tired' of the progress the four sign-ons and four ships in the scales and gave us the transit. edge in finding and killing the Prior to the invention of this dom of the seas, can move troops e luntry is making in education, special radar, submarines could to the world's trouble spots through c!vil rights and social gains. They Oimas Rivera, who started sail undersea marauders. ing as an SIU man in 1943 on the Last week, more than 21 years operate beneath the sea free from protected sealanes, while aircraft r e the men, Humphrey said, who detection because normal radar and land movement often incurs insult the intelligence of our old Jean, is laid up in dry dock later, it was announced that the with a shoulder injury suffered Inventor, patent attorney Robert waves will not travel through harrassment in countries they at r ople by giving them simple water. What Rines' device did tempt to transit. answers to hard questions. aboard the Alcoa Explorer. He ex H. Rines, would finally be granted a patent for his invention. Up to was to detect modulations created The ten merchant ships involved Shipping for all ratings in New pects to be out of the hospital soon, however, and wants to latch this point the device and its work on the surface of the water by in Operation Steelpike are fast, York is expected to remain good ings had been kept in striet objects operating beneath the sur modern types equipped with quick f :r the future period. Meanwhile, onto an island run. Henry J. McCullough liked his secrecy by the Navy and other face. With the device, vibrations cargo-handling gear. Their speeds this is World Series time and a lot services using the invention. Pre caused by submarines were easily range from 19 to 25 knots, as com of the fellows were hanging last ship, the Fairport, and said she was a good feeder. He had sumably, we now have something differentiated from signals created pared to the 12 knots of World War around the Hall with their eyes more effective. by shrimp and other sea life. II Liberty ships. p'ued to the television set. It to get off for a little work in dry dock and, feeling better now, he The equipment, which was in With the installation of the air An exercise held earlier this 1 oked like most of the boys were stalled in aircraft as fast as it borne radar. Hitler's submarines 1 . ting for the Cards. is waiting for a Far East run. month by the Navy called MER- Alexander Tuura, who sails as came from the factories back in lost their cloak of invisibility. CONVEX 8, was the first merchant Danny Alvino, just in from a a carpenter, was last off the Los- 1943, bounces radio waves off the Cruising beneath the surface in convoy-type operation carried on 1 )ng trip on the Sea Pioneer, did mar. He says he is now looking surface of the water. The echoes, apparent safety, not knowing they since World War. It included a bang-up job as bos'n, we hear. for the first job that shows up on when analyzed, show clearly any were being shadowed from the air, a run through "submarine infested" Leroy Williams is watching the the board. they would come up at night to waters, simulated loading opera fg board for a steward's job and Norfolk charge their batteries only to find tions, real communications exer Joe Brown is another fellow on Shipping has been good in Nor a U.S. or British destroyer stand cises between ships and emergency the lookout for a 'steward's berth. folk and is expected to remaim ing off a few hundred yards ready grouping and regrouping under Three recent up-graders— P.L. 480 Bill good for the next period. There (Continued from page 3) to send them back to the bottom. mock attack conditions. The mer r bert Di Saruo, Robert Hender- were three payoffs, four sign-ons which were either beaten down or On other occasions the Allied war chant ships which took part E n and the "watchman," Ken and six in transits. The town is modified. Many of the amend ship, already sent to the right threaded through minefields, (.Slim) Turner—have been holding still talking about Lady Bird ments, it was felt; impinged on spot by the airborne detector, dodged submarines and attempted on to one of the card tables in Johnson's whistlestop visit in Nor the President's foreign policy mak would pick up the submarine's to avoid fast torpedo boats. the New York Hall waiting to folk. Her motorcade passed the ing powers. telltale signal with its own sonar According to Admiral Harold ship. new SIU Hall and there was a After signing the newly extend and destroy the undersea raider P. Smith, USN, Supreme Allied Baltimore good turnout of members on hand ed bill. President Johnson issued with depth charges. Commander Atlantic, the emer Shipping has been slow in Balti to greet her. a statement saying that Acting Seafarers interested in looking gency shipping exercise" . . . may more but the outlook is good for Dallas Hill, who sails as a 3rd Attorney Gen. Nicholas Katzen- into the working of this radar de cast the pattern for war-time ^hip the next period. The Hurricane cook, is just back from a Far East vice which saved untold seamen's ping in all strategic coastal ports end Robin Locksley, now laid up, bach had advised him that two run on the De Soto. He says he provisions were unconstitutional lives during the war can look it in the United States and those of rre expected to crew up within the is looking for another 3rd cook's because they would give Con up under patent number 3,153,236. its allies in NATO." r 3xt two weeks. In the last period job that will have him back in gressional groups veto power over t -ere were five payoffs, one sign- time for Christmas. Executive actions. c.i and 12 ships in transit. It Doesn't Hurt A Bit ! John Allman had to pile off the The President said one provi LSoyd Zimmerman, ju.st off the ; ggg Pioneer to take care of some sion would give either the House 1 kmar, likes to ride Calmar personal matters. He is ready to or Senate Agriculture Committees s dps because he can also be close ship again, however. Leslie Smith, the power to veto the disposition t.j home always. He says he has last off the Cottonwood Creek, of certain foreign currency ob s;?en many gains by the SIU since has been shipping out of Hou tained through overseas sales of j Jning and rates the union's wel- ston, but he's back here now. He surplus foods. fu'-e plan as tlie best in the world. says he is going to ship again as The other would prohibit the Louis Firlie joined the Fanwood soon as he breaks his new car in. President from making certain en the. West Coast and signed off Puerto Rico low-interest loans under the law in New York for a little vacation Shipping on the island con without obtaining agreement from ti ne. He is ready to sail again tinues good with a total of 12 an advisory committee composed as a fireman-water tender and is ships contacted over the last in part of members of Congress. not particular about where his period. On the labor front, the next ship takes him. strike on the San Juan Star Boston ended last week, bringing wage SEAFARERS LOG Shipping has been on the slow boosts ranging from $8 to $13.75 Oct. 16,1964 Vol. XXVI, No. 21 beil in Boston, with a good chance weekly for the newspaper's em that it will pick up in the next ployees in a two-year pact that period. There were no payoffs or also guarantees substantial fringe sign-ons and only three ships in benfits. All segments of the labor PAUL HAtt, President transit. HERBERT BRAND, Editor; BERNARD SEA movement on the island gave their MAN, Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, VitO D'Angelo, a 20-year union backing to the strike. NATHAN SKYHI, Assistant Editors; tr^ n who sails as a bos'n, was last Antonio "El Demonip" Morales ROBERT ARONSON, ALVIN SCOTT, PETE on the Robin Goodfellow and says is back in town after a Far East CARMEN, Staff Writers. he is sorry to see her laying up. trip on the Pan Oceanic Faith and Published biweekly at the headquarters of the Seafarers International Union, At jAfter he spends some tirtie with a few coastwise hops on the lantic, Culf, Lakes and Inland Waters the family, Vito says he would like Raphael Semmes. Tony spends a District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6(00. An SIU champion blood donor, Alvin C. Carpenter, is shown to get a run to South Africa again. good part of. his beach time Second class postage paid at the Post Office In Brooklyn, NY, vnder the Act here with SIU Brooklyn clinic nurse Mary Larson, who made ' George Svennlugson is.sorry to wrestling professionally and has of Aug. 24. 1912. see his last ship, the Henry, go off been seen on local TV from time MO liire the' bandage was secure after Carpenter donated his shore: George; "who sails" as" Rri to' time.' llth pint of blood to the Union Blood Bank. OeMfew If, INft SEAFARERS LOG tag* flTl Seven iVIore Seafarers Added To Pension List By Llndtey Williamt, Vice-President, Gulf Area Four Atlantic arid Gulf district Seafarers and three Great Lakes district Seafarers have Johnson Campaigns In New Orleans been awarded SIU pensions and been placed on the growing list of men who can count on Lyndon B. Johnson brought his oampaiyn for election to the Freei- spending their retirement years supported by a regular monthly pension check. The action denoy of the United States to the Gulf Coast and received an enthusi- of the trustees brings the ^ astlo reception. The President's appearance in New Orleans was the number of Seafarers who have Una who first signed up with the the William A. Reiss. A native of climax of a four-day "whistle stop" speakiny tour through the Sondi retired on $150 pensions to a union in Norfolk, shipping out in Sheboygan, Wise., he still makes hy Mrs. Johnson aboard the "Lady Bird Special." total of 72 during 1964. the engine department. He last his home in that city A crowd estimated at 23,000 persons was on hand at the Union Pas The pensioners are William W. sailed on the Madeket, before re senger Terminal when the President, who had arrived in New Orleans Walker, 39; Arthur Graf, 54; Luby tiring to his home in West Bell- several hours earlier by plane, met the First Lady at the conclusion of O'Neal, 71; Santiago Pena, 63; Ver haven, North Carolina. her four-day, 50-speeeh tour. Aboard the "Lady Bird Special" when non L. Johnson, 65; Walter C. Sailing in the engine depart- it pulled into the station were several AFL-CIO officials, including SIU Jahn, 66, and Gillis L Smith, 63. representatives, who had boarded the train at Biloxi, Miss., along with A member of the steward de a group of Louisiana political, civic and business leaders. partment, Walker has been sailing It was estimated that 60,000 persons saw the President between the with the SIU since he signed on In raiiway station and his hotel where he addressed some 2,000 plus guests New York. A native of New Jer sey, he now makes his home in at a banquet later that evening. His address was carried on a nation Johnson wide television hookup and Mr. Johnson left no one in doubt as to Baltimore, Md. Walker last sailed Pena his position on even the most controversial issues of the campaign. aboard the Bo nanza. While his Louisiana supporters had anticipated a big turnout, the Graf first joined 200,000 who lined the route from the airport to the hotel during the the SIU in the afternoon, plus the hugevnight-time audience, exceeded all expectations. port of New York, Grof O'Neal It is certain that the appearance of'f and spent his the President and the First Lady years at sea sail ment, Pena joined the membership on crutches, Douglas "Smiley" of the SIU in the port of New gave the Democratic campaign Claussen is anxious to ship out. ing in the stew needed impetus and Congressman ard department. York. A native of Spain, he will His foot was badly Injured in an retire on his monthly pension to Haie Boggs, who was master of accident aboard the Bethtex. A native of New ceremonies for Mrs. Johnson's ap his present home in Lodi, N.J. He "Smiley" is still on crutches, but Walker Jersey, Graf will last sailed aboard the Puerto Rico. pearances on the rear platform of his condition is improving and he spend his years John Smith her special train, confidently pre Johnson is a Great Lakes Sea hopes it will not be too much of retirement in Weehawken, New farer who first joined the union Smith sailed in the Great Lakes dicted that Johnson would carry longer before he is certified "fit for Jersey. He last sailed aboard the the South. He based his prediction in the port of Detroit. He last for many years before retiring to duty." Charles A. Dorrough, who Overseas Rose. sailed aboard the McKee Sons as his home in River Rouge, Mich. on the warm and enthusiastic wel last sailed as baker on the Pilot O'Neal is a native of North Caro- come Mrs. Johnson received dur a wiper. A native of Wisconsin, He last shipped aboard the George Rock, is making the job calls and he plans to settle on his monthly H. Ingalls as an oiler in the engine ing the tour. looking for a Far East trip. Eddie The outcome of this election will pension to his present home in department, although he sailed Caudill ,a top night cook and baker Manistique, Michigan. for many years as fireman water- vitally affect the welfare of all who has been shipping out of the trade union members. We should 2 Rail Tugmen Jahn is another Great Lakes dis tender. He is a native of the state West Coast for a number of years, trict member, who's last vessel was of Michigan. make certain, therefore, that our has decided to try the Gulf for relatives and friends are informed awhile and is registered in Hous of the importance of voting on ton. George B. Forrest, after two Go On Pension November 3 for President Johnson. trips as AB on the Transorient, C/.S. Square Rigger His Republican opponent. Gold- got off in Houston for a vacation water, is outspokenly opposed to with friends and family and is unions and the things we stand for. ready to ship out again. H. G. San- Absentee voting started in Texas ford is making the calls, hoping to Is Museum Bound last week, and will begin in other land a pumpman's job on a coast MANILA, The Philippines—The square-rigged barque Gulf Coast states within a few wise tanker. After 10 months as a Kaiulani, the last sailing ship in America's merchant fleet, days. Find out when it begins in fireman on the Mt. Vernon Victory, your state. If you plan to be away R. E. Miller is looking for a Group wilt be retired from active service next year to serve out her from your home precinct on 2 engine job on any coastwise remaining life as a floating November 3, be sure to vote "ab tanker. museum in Washington, D.C. cargo bound for Australia and was sentee" before you ship out. Shipping was on the boom side Built in 1899, the Kaiulani in the Pacific when war broke out After about five months on the in Mobile for the last two weeks, has operated in recent years as on December 7, 1941. The Kai beach in Houston, most of it spent but is expected to tail off to a Philippines mahogany trader. ulani sought refuge from Japanese fairly steady pace in the immediate Two weeks ago she was present submarines in the harbor of Ho- future. Five grain ships paid off ed to the U.S. in formal ceremo and signed on in the port in one nies at the White House taken bart, Tasmania, where she re week and during the last month part in by Philippines President mained until being taken over by Minimum Wage Veteran SlU-Railway Ma the Army Transportation Corps. about 200 men registered and some Diosdado Macapagal and Presi 250 shipped. Among those still rine Region tugman John dent Johnson. In Army hands, she was dismasted making the scene at Dauphin and Rock (I) accepts his first and reduced to the lowly duties of President Macapagal gave Pres a coal barge. Hiked Up In N. Lawrence is W. A. Wade of pension check from SIU ident Johnson a picture of the Chickasaw, Ala., who has just been rep E. B. McCauley. vessel, which wiU be restored to Sold as surplus after the war, declared "fit for duty" after being its original condition by the Mari she took up her last assignment N.Y. State on the sick list for about 18 months. Two more veterans of the SIU's time Historical Society of Wash with Philippine owners, that of ALBANY—More than a quarter We are glad to hear the good news. Railway Marine Region were ington. The society has created a transporting mahogany logs from million workers in New York state Wade, who is registered in Group added to the list of RMR members special commission for the pres Mindanao to Manila. It was her owners who donated her to the will get ten cent hourly wage in 1 of the Deck Department, has that have retired on a monthly in ervation of the Kaiulani. U.S. creases October 15 when the raise been sailing out of the Gulf for come of $150 from the SIU Wel The 225-foot three-master, built on the state's minimum wage law the last 18 years. His last ship fare Plan. by A. Sewall & Company of Bath, The Kaiulani, which is square- from $1.15 to $1.25 goes into ef was the City of Alma. More good The pensioners, Maine, has had a busy if not spec rigged on the fore and main mast fect. news of the same kind was received John Rock, 63, tacular career during her 65 years. and fore-and-aft-rigged on the The increase is the second and by Wiley HInton of Lucedale, and Matthew She was engaged in the Hawaii- mizzenmast, will cost between half final step written into the 1962 Miss., who has been laid up for Joseph Duff, 63, California sugar trade until 1910, a million and a million dollars to law. A good proportion of the about a year and a half with a leg are both resi and was destined from then on tow to Hong Kong for rehabilita state's low wage workers are not injury. For a time the medics told dents of New to spend most of her time in the tion and rerigging. There she wiil covered by the law. They include him he never would be able to sail Jersey. Pacific. After leaving the sugar pick up a crew to sail her to Wash ington by way of the Indian domestic workers, farm labor and again, but they now say he is fully Rock served trade, she was acquired by the recovered and he Is looking for for many years American Packers fleet for use as Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope workers in educational, religious and the Atlantic. and charitable organizations, in a chief steward's job. His last ship as a motorman a supply barque in the Alaska Alan D. Hutchinson, president cluding workers in non-profit was the Jefferson City Victory. Duff upon the Penn salmon trade, where she served hospitals. Also excluded from the Walter B. Tobiasson, a charter sylvania Raiiroad for the next 19 years. In 1929, she of the society, said his organiza law are those employees covered member who has been shipping out Co. tugs until he became a bridge- was laid up at Rotten Row in the tion will launch a fund-raising by the federal minimum wage law, of the Gulf since 1938, is relaxing man in 1961. He has been working Oakland Estuary of San Francisco drive to secure enough money for which carries from $1.15 to $1.25 at his home in Springhill, Ala., for the company since he first Bay. She lingered there, inactive, tiie project. for different categories of workers. after a trip to Egypt on the Our joined the Penn in 1920. A native for the next ten years. State officials said those most Lady of Peace. B. F. Lowery who of Jersey City, N.J., He wiil retire She was reactived in the late likely to benefit from the in got off the Alcdk Runner after to his home in Hoboken, N.J., 1930's as a lumber carrier. On her crease were workers in laundries about a year to vacation at his where he resides with his famiiy. first voyage after a decade of in and the retail trade, especially in home in Megargel, Aia., is making Duff began working on the tug activity, she hauled a cargo of variety stores. Governor Rockefel the calls and throwing in on every boats of the Erie-Lackawanna northwest lumber from Gray's ler is now considering whether to Group 2 engine job that hits the Railroad in 1924, working that Harbor, Washington to San Fran increase the minimum wage to board. T. J. Lundy of Semmes, period as fioatman, mate and deck cisco. In 1942, she made a trip $1.50, a measure strongly backed by Aia., who has been sailing out of hand. A native of London, Eng from the Pacific Northwest to the labor movement in the state. the Gulf for about 18 years and land, Duff has resided in Hoboken, Durban, South Africa, by way of The Governor has appointed an 11- last was on the Monarch of the N.J. since coming to this country Cape Horn and the Cape of Good man panel to look into the eco Seas, is looking for a spot on a and plans to retire on his monthly Hope. nomic effects of a ra|se in ^he l^w. Puerto , Rican, ,or. .bfu^x|te ,run. income to his home In that city. There she picked up a lumber r-i V-.- face SEATAR IOC- oe^'i6;iiil<^
(Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) September 25 - October 9 Shipping took a jump for the better during the last Francisco and Seattle dropping slightly. Ship Attivify two weeks, remaining very good in most ports, and al Registrations remained fairly constant, showing only most excellent in the port of New York. A total of a small gain in the number of job seekers. A total of r«y Sl«a la 1,267 registered as compared to 1,220 the previous pe 09» Oai Troai. TOTAL 1,403 Seafarers shipped during the last two weeks, com riod. The number of SIU men registered on the beach pared with 1,220 the period before. A department •ostoa 0 0 3 3 dropped, with the increased shipping, to 3,622, from Naw Yorfc.... 18 3 24 45 breakdown reveals that shipping was more active in the 3,722. Philadelphia .. 5 4 4 13 steward department, while just slightly slower in the The change in job situation had some effects on the Baltimore .... S 1 12 18 deck and engine departments. statistics picturing the seniority situations, which re Norfolh 2 4 5 11 Shipping on the East Coast was mixed again this turned to a more normal distribution. The percentage Jachsenville .. 3 3 11 17 period, with a healthy increase of jobs in the New York of Class A men shipped during the period, dropped to Tampa ...... 1 1 10 12 scene, and moderate increases in Philadelphia and 52 percent from 58 percent for the previous period, while Mobile 4 3 7 14 Jacksonville. Boston, Baltimore and Norfolk shipping the percentage of Class B men climbed 4 points to 35 New Orleaat.. 8 4 12 24 was slightly off from the previous period. percent. Class C men shipped during the period was Hoattoa 11 4 21 34 On the Gulf Coast, the job situation was considerably 13 percent, two points above the previous period. Wilmingtoa .. 1 0 7 -N 8 Shipping activity remained at a good level (see report Son Froncifco . 2 .2 4 10 lower than the previous periods, with shipping in New Seattle Orleans and Houston falling off sharply, and Tampa at right) with a total of 225 movements, as compared 4 4 4 12 and Norfolk both dropping somewhat. The West Coast to 220 the previous period. Of the movements, 66 were was almost even with the previous period, with Wil payoffs, 33 were sign-ons, and there were 126 ships TOTALS ... 44 33 124 225 mington showing small gains in shipping and San in-transit. DECK DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered On The Beach
CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C Shipped CLASS A1 CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP Port 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL Boston 2 5 0 7 0 1 " 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 24 8 42 0 3 6 9 New York 21 49 12 82 7 21 18 46 21 65 7 93 3 22 16 41 0 10 6 16 93 41 16 150 92 153 27 272, 10 40 70 120 Philadelphia 5 6 2 13 0 4 2 6 6 7 2 15 1 3 6 10 1 0 1 2 15 10 2 27 14 12 1 27 0 2 7 9 Baltimore 8 12 1 21 1 4 11 16 4 11 3 18 1 4 6 11 0 1 0 1 18 11 1 30 41 53 10 104 2 21 41 64 Norfolk 6 8 1 15 1 1 2 4 4 8 1 13 2 2 1 5 1 1 3 5 13 5 5 23 9 11 3 23 0 5 10 15 Jacksonville 6 5 0 11 1 3 3 • 7 4 4 0 8 1 3 5 9 0 0 1 1 8 9 1 18 4 7 0 11 2 3 6 11 Tampa 0 3 0 3 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 3 4 2 6 0 8, 1 3 4 8 Mobile 16 16 4 36 2 6 8 16 15 18 1 34 3 12 12 27 0 4 6 10 34 27 10 71 29 24 11 64' 0 5 13 18 New Orleans 18 30 6 54 1 10 11 22 11 26 6 43 0 14 12 26 0 4 0 4 43 26 4 73 53 66 12 131 3 39 53 95 Houston 11 17 6 34 3 9 8 20 6 32 6 44 0 13 13 26 0 9 1 10 44 26 10 80 60 77 13 150 4 26 38 68 Wilmington 5 1 0 6 0 4 5 9 2 4 4 10 1 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 10 5 0 15 13 21 3 37 1 7 12 20 San Francisco 5 10 4 19 2 2 4 8 6 8 1 15 1 5 4 10 2 0 1 3 15 10 3 28 27 24 4 55 1 10 5 16 Seattle 4 10 3 17 0 10 8 18 8 11 4 23 0 1 4 5 0 0 0 0 23 5 0 28 26 26 2 54 0 24 18 42 TOTALS 107 172 39 1 318 18 76 84 11 178 90 194 35 1 319 13 81 81 1 175 4 30 21 1 55 319 175 55 I1 549 380 504 94 j 978 24 188 283 11 495 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C Shipped CLASS A CLASS B
f% ^ GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP Port 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL Boston 0 5 ' 0 5 0 1 2 3 0 o" 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 15 2 18 0 6 3 9 New York 12 45 7 64 4 22 12 38 20 31 7 58 3 21 22 46 1 9 9 19 58 46 19 123 48 128 18 195 15 48 51 114 Philadelphia 0 7 1 8 0 7 6 13 1 7 0 8 0 4 3 7 0 0 1 1 8 7 1 16 1 20 4 25 0 4 9 13 Baltimore 3 23 0 26 0 9 5 14 1 17 2 20 0 4 5 9 0 0 0 0 20 9 0 29 13 43 6 62, 4 33 34 71 Norfolk 0 7 0 7 0 3 4 7 1 5 2 8 1 5 4 10 0 4 1 5 8 10 5 23, 2 16 1 19 1 0 9 8 17 Jacksonville 2 4 0 6 1 3 3 7 2 4 0 6 1 8 1 10 1 1 2 4 6 10 4 20' 2 6 0 8, 2 0 5 7 Tampa 0 3 0 3 0 2 2 4 . 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 3 3 1 4 3 8 1 5 0 6 0 2 0 2 Mobile 4 10 0 i1 14 0 7 8 15 12 12 2 26 1 13 8 22 0 1 2 3 26 22 3 51 6 25 0 31 0 9 9 18 New Orleans 6 17 3 1I 26 0 16 11 27 7 24 2 33 1 10 14 25 0 5 0 5 33 25 5 63 21 65 11 971 3 41 S3 97 Houston 8 15 0 1 23 3 12 7 22 6 21 2 29 4 14 10 28 0 4 1 5 29 28 5 62 22 51 2 75' 5 50 33 88 Wilmington 1 4 1 6 0 3 2 5 1 0 1 2 1 2 4 7 0 5 0 5 2 7 5 14 4 10 1 15 1 7 8 16 San Francisco 6 20 1 27 e 7 3 10 5 11 2 18 1 3 0 4 0 3 0 3 18 4 3 25 8 39 10 571 1 10 11 22 Seattle 2 12 3 17 1 6 5 12 1 9 4 14 0 3 2 5 0 0 0 0 14 5 0 10 7 28_ 2 37 _ 0 12 6 18 TOTALS 44 172 16 1 232 9 98 70 1 177 57 142 24 1 223 13 87 78 1 178 2 32 19 11 53 223 178 53 1 454137' 451 57 "l 6451 31 231 230 1 492 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C 1 Shipped CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP Port 1-8 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1-8 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1-8 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL Bos ~0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 5 15 0 0 2 2 NY 7 20 8 33 68 3 5 11 19 10 18 8 20 56 1 6 13 20 2 0 27 29 56 20 29 105 17 65 87 60 179 9 9 26 44 Phil 2 4 1 2 9 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 5 9 0 0 6 6 0 0 5 5 9 6 5 20 4 4 6 9 23 1 0 7 8 Bal 5 3 4 6 IS 2 2 17 21 3 3 3 3 12 1 1 16 18 0 0 2 2 12 18 2 32 13 30 14 24 8l' 6 .4 45 55 Nor 4 1 1 2 8 2 0 6 8 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 0 2 8 10 1 3 10 14 5 7 5 4 21 2 3 13 18 Jac 2 4 2 1 S 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 6 0 0 3 3 1 0 3 4 6 3 4 13 1 4 2 0 7 0 2 1 3 Tarn 2 1 1 2 6 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1, 0 0 3 3 0 1 4 & 1 3 5 9 4 1 3 5 13 0 0 0 0 Mob 1 7 4 4 16 1 0 5 6 1 9 3 7 20 2 1 13 16 0 1 6 7 20 16 7 43 2 12 9 14 37 2 1 11 14 NO 4 8 3 12 27 4 2 35 4.1 0 8 3 22 33 4 1 25 30 0 0 6 6 33 30 6 69 16 21 18 48 103 5 3 79 87 Hon 0 3 3 8 14 4 1 8 13 2 11 4 9 26 4 2 15 21: 0 0 10 26 21 10 57 16 28 11 26 81 7 4 26 37 Wil 2 2 2 3 9 0 0 6 6 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 8 6 5 5 6 22, 3 2 11 16 SF 2 3 4 13 22 0 2 9 11 0 1 4 3 8 0 0 4 4 0 0 2 2 8 4 2 14 8 15 9 18 sol 2 4 7 13 Sea 1 3 2 2 8 6 1 9 16 1 1 1 7 10, 1 0 4 5 1 0 0 1 10 5 1 16 6 9 4 12 31 5 6 41 52 TOTALS 32 59 36 88 1 215 23 13 111 1 147 18 58 30 79 11 185 14 11 109 11 134 4 4 73 1 «1 185 134 81 1 400 100 203 129 231 1 663 42 38 269 1 349 SUMMARY Registered Registered SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL ABC ALL DECK 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 107 172 39 1318 18 76 84 j 178 90 194 35 j 319 ~13381~8lTl'5 4 30 21 I 55 319 175 55 | 549 380 504 94 | 978 24 188 283 1495 ENGINE 44 172 16 I 232 9 98 70 j 177 57 142 24 j 223 13 87 78 | 178 2 32 19 | 53 223_178 53 | 454 137 451 57 | 645 31 231 230 1492 STEWARD 91 36 88 I 215 23 13 111 j 147 76 30 79 j 185 14 ~ 11 109 j 134 "4_ 4 73 I 8l|l85_134 81 | 400 303 129 231 j 663 42 38 269 [ 349 GRANDTOTALS. . ..,,242 389,143 ( 765 5Q , 187,.265 J 502 223 366 I.18. f 727.40 ~ 178 268. | 487 10~T66 113 .|~189 727~ 487 189<^ |1403 820 1084.383 ^286, 97 457 782 ,|1336 OoWbOT.M. MM 8BAFAHERS LOG Pag* Gfevea.
Qreetlnss To First Lady Conference Expforei Teen-Age Joblessnest Success Of Youth Training Rests On Job Opportunities WASHINGTON—Programs to help prepare teen-agers for jobs can be fully successful only if there are more jobs to go around, AFL-CIO participants warned at a symposium sponsored by the National Committee on Employment of Youth. AFL-CIO Research Direc- tor Nathaniel Goldfinger high school graduates and persons Public works he pointed out, use termed the high rate of youth with qualifications above that relatively large amounts of ma unemployment a "socially-danger actually needed to do the job terials and employ unskilled and ous aspect of the general high simply because they are available. semi-skilled workers. Thus "a level of joblessness"—but a Goldfinger and Friedman massive effort in this area of im "symptom" of an economic illness warned against moves to exempt porting public services could This is the sight that greeted Mrs. Lyndon Johnson when her rather than the ailment itself. teen-agers from minimum wage quickly reduce joblessness." train slowed down at Norfolk on her recent speech-making A similar point was made by laws which might provide addi Along with job-creating public tour through the southern U.S. Holding up the sign are Marvin Friedman, a federation tional jobs for youth, but only at and private investment, Gold the expense of adult employment. finger said, there is a need to workers of the SlU-United Industrial Workers contracted economist, who said that school dropouts and other poorly-educated No "single-shot panacea" will spread employment through "re Colonna Shipyard who were part of a 200-man delegation workers can be trained for a provide the jobs the nation's duction of the amount of working on hand to cheer the First Lady when her train passed variety of semi-skilled occupations economy needs, Goldfinger told time during a person's life—re through the Colonna yard. "but because of economic slack the conference. But in the absence duction of the standard workweek, there's not enough demand for of a "vast" expansion In private In later entry into the labor force such workers to absorb many of dustry, he said, "the cornerstone through an extended period of the unemployed." of job-creating economic expan education and vocational training, In today's "loose" labor market, sion must be a sustained rise in the opportunity for early retire he said, employers are able to hire government Investment." ment with adequate pensions, ex U.S. Desalting Facility panded vacations and sabbatical leaves." A third labor representative Supplies Apgean island among the symposium's panelists —Ben B. Seligman, education and The Greek islands in the Aegean Sea have always been research director of the Retail long on sunshine but chronically short on fresh water. Thanks Clerks—^said the "modest" rise in to American technology however, the first has been put to labor costs if a 35-hour week be By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer came the new standard "could be work recently to alleviate :t absorbed quite easily" just as the the shortage of the latter. they are overlaid with sheets of Benefit Requirements Outiined economy took in stride all previous A new solar energy distilla rubber to hold the seawater which cuts in working hours. is pumped Into them nightly. The Since the Inception of this column. Seafarers have been asked to tion plant opened this week on tht forward any questions or complaints they may have regarding Uie Despite the stimulation of the island o£ Syme, Greece near Tur troughs are lined with a black heat-retaining material and cov processing of appiications for various benefits to the Secretary- economy by the tax cut, Seligman key's eastern Aegean coast north of Treasurer's office. The result has been a small number of complaints pointed out, the Impact hasn't Rhodes. In full operation, the ered with an airnsupported special ly treated plastic film. about the processing of some types of applications, and we are cur reached "footloose miners, un plant will produce between 20 and rently tightening up areas of administration where these Items seem employed packinghouse workers, 40 tons of fresh, drinkable water This film traps enough heat displaced auto workers, laid-oiff from the sun to cause the seawater to crop up. daily from the seawater surround The complaints that have come In, as far as the majority of cases is railroad workers and all the others ing the island. to become scalding hot and begin whose skills have suddenly become evaporating. Salt-free steam rises concerned, have been the result of claims filed Improperly at the time Donated to the people of the they were originally submitted. Therefore, in an effort to assist the unnecessary and unwanted." island by an anonymous American to the underside of the plastic cover where it condenses and runs membership in filing complete applications for the various benefits Labor Secretary W. Willard philanthropist, the plant involves they may be entitled to under the SIU Welfare, Pension and Vacation Wirtz, In a major address to the some 14 shallow "bays" or troughs, off side gutters as distilled water to flow by gravity to a collection Plans, we will continue to spell out the steps to be taken In filing for conference, expressed concern about 230 feet long and 10 feet each type of benefit available, and to deal with one of them at a time. over the nation's Indifference to wide. Formed of sand and gravel, point. From there it is pumped into a municipal reservoir for dis Since the dependents benefits are the ones about which we receive "a tidal wave of unprepared, un tribution. the most Inquiries, this area seems a good place to start. trained boys and girls sweeping Since only part of the water A seaman who is filing for benefits must have been employed at least into the labor market." "ViHS^aiSrSks" evaporates each day, the concen 90 days during the previous calendar year, and at least one day within Advance Notice trated salt water remaining is the past six months immediately preceding the date his claim accrued. Seafarers seeking other than flushed out to sea at night and a All of this employment must have been with an SlU-contracted com New Harbor emergency care at the US new supply of seawater is pumped pany which was a part of the Sea-f Public Health Service out in. farers Welfare Plan during the geon), a marriage certificate, the patient clinic in New York Even during the few winter period the seaman worked for the child's birth certificate (if a chUd Developed In have been asked to telephone, months when it is too cold to use company. is involved). For any other person wire or write in advance for solar-heat to distill water the large Who Is termed a dependent? whom the member is claiming as an appointment to assure bet surface of the apparatus serves a The "dependent" Includes an em a dependent, he must furnish a North Japan ter care and avoid long periods ployee's wife, unmarried children copy of his latest Federal tax re useful purpose by catching rain TOMAKOMAI, Japan—Hokkaido, of waiting. The USPHS facili water. under 19 years of age, and any turn as proof of dependency. ty, at Hudson & Jay Streets, other person whom the member Is In the event a claim Involving a the northermosi of tTie main Japa While fresh water had to be im nese Islands, has a new, man- NYC, says it Is being swamped ported to the island at a cost of entitled to claim as a dependent hospital or doctor bill has not made port here, its harbor dug out by "walk-in" patients who 50 drachmas or $1.^ per ton, on his current Federal Income tax been paid, then the check in pay have ample time to make ad return, under the US Internal ment thereto will be drawn in the of the sandy coast by power shov farming on the island'remained at els and dredges, transforming vance appointments. Unless a subsistence level and the 22 Revenue Act. name of the member and/or the they require emergency care. Copies of legal documents es doctor or hospital, whichever is what was once a straight, harbor- square mile area lost its popula less coastline. Seafarers are asked to write tion rapidly during the last dec tablishing proof of dependency involved. This then means that the clinic at 67 Hudson St., ade. With its own water supply, status must be filed with the Sea the member must endorse the Touted by local officials as the New York 13, or call BArcIay officials hope the island can de farers Welfare Plan office. check and that the doctor or hospi largest project of its kind in the 7-6150 before they come in. velop an economy capable of sus In order to be entitled to the tal must endorse it. This pro world, the new harbor figures taining its population. dependent benefits, a patient must cedure is used, not to create a prominently in plana for building have been admitted to a hospital, hardship on the member, the doc an industrial complex in the south- and/or surgery must have been tor or the hospital, but to Insure em Hokkaido area. performed. In the event of sur that all hospitals and doctors are Digging began back in 1951 and SlU Welfare, Vacation Plans gery, it is not necessary that this paid in full so as to maintain a the first ships started using the surgery be performed in a hospital good working relationship between harbor last year. The project so Cash Benefits Paid — September, 1964 - In order to be entitled to payment the various hospitals and our far has cost about 7,200 yen or $20 CLAIMS AMOUNT PAID of this surgery benefit. The sur membership. million. The harbor area, which gery benefit is paid in accordance In one of our recent columns, is almost a mile square, is pres Hospital Benefits 8,495 67,894.77 with the Surgery Schedule for De the members were informed that ently 28 feet deep and will be Death Benefits 29 79,450.50 pendent Benefits. if they wanted to obtain duplicates dredged out to a 44 foot depth to Any claim, as well as proof of a of their discharges, they could accommodate big tankers and ore Pension-Disability Benefits 602 93,000.00 claim for dependent benefits, must secure same by writing to the carriers. Maternity Benefits 44 8,636.00 be submitted to the office of the Commandant of the US Coast Next step in the project is a Seafarers Welfare Plan within 100 Guard in Washington, DC. Under three-mile-long arm of the harbor Dependent Benefits 917 112,100.29 days of the performance of such the latest procedure. In order to to extend inland at an angle of Optical Benefits 90 1,673.55 surgery, or of the patient's dis speed the processing of lost dis about 30 degrees from the coast charge from the hospital. charges, one must file with the line. With a width of about 450 Out-Patient Benefits 5,814 41,548.00 In adidtion, the applicant must Officer in Charge, Marine Inspec yards for half its length, this arm SUMMARY 15,991 404,303.11 have, on file with the Seafarers tion, USCG, at the nearest princi will have berths along both sides Welfare Plan office, copies of the pal US port. The only means by and will include a large turning Vacation Benefits 1,376 450,566.06 fallowing or originals: An enroll which duplicate discharges will be basin. Planned to handle large ment card, a claims statement issued is by having the seaman tankers and ore carriers, the arm TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION (filled in on both sides and signed himself make personal contact is expected to take about five BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD. 17,367 854,869.17 by the attending physician or sur with otte of the above officers. years to •complete; Pace ElcU SEAFARERS LOG OaMw If. INf Big Cargo Loss Recorded As Lakes Level Recedes By Al Tanner, Vice President DETROIT—The alarming effects of low water levels in the Great Lakes has im- and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes oosed serious restrictions on the cargo capacity of bulk carriers on Lakes Michigan and Huron. The harmful impact of the reduced draft level on the Lakes was outlined recently Lakes Prepares For Winter Layup by Vice Admiral James A,-*- L We are now approaching the last two months of the navigation season Hirshfield, president of the and Huron have found that they here on the Lakes and, with most of the membership looking forward the size of the seasonal decline in akes Carrier Association, must load and unload in waters cargo can be obtained. Thus, for to the lay-up, we are having difficulty In filling rated Jobs such as who detailed the meaning of the about 12 inches lower than those ABs, Oilers and Firemen. a larger ship of 700 feet or more loss in terms of both dollars and of the other three lakes. This re in length, the total loss of cargo Alpena reports that shipping has slowed down; however, other ports tonnage. duction in water levels has cre are still shipping men at a steady pace. The J. W. Boardman fitted out for a 40 trip season is estimated Speaking at a special seminar, ated heavy limits on cargo capac at 35,200 tons. The cargo lose for again and I imagine most of the boys on the beach in Alpena found organized by Michigan's Attorney ity. A drop of one inch in the berths on this one, including Bernard Cebula, Thomas Daoust, Ervin an average-size .'essel for a season General Frank Kelly and Michigan water level of the Lakes means is computed at 19,200 tons. Bromund and Gerald Nokland. State University, to discuss the that a carrier loses from 60 to According to Admiral Hirsh- Shipping in Buffalo remains good, according to Port Agent Roy low water levels. Admiral Hirsh- ICQ tons of cargo, depending on Eoudreau. Dredging work in the poH of Buffalo was held up again field estimated that the situation field, the cargo loss for the 234 the size of the ship. Taking into bulk vessels' in the Lakes Carrier due to high winds but I understand they are now back to work and caused a income loss to association account an eight-inch drop in the are racing to beat old man Winter. members in the neighborhood of Association is estimated at 6.9 water level since fast year, this million tons. When this figure is George Keller, who was confined to Roswell Park Memorial Hospi $13 million. The total loss in means that a carrier will carry any tal for several months, passed away. George sailed with Reiss Steamship capacity was put at 6.9 million multiplied by the $1.90 per ton where from 480 to 800 tons less rate for ore, the total stands at Company and I know his ex-shipmates will be sorry to hear the news. tons or a figure equal to the total per trip. Shipping in Detroit has picked up again since our last report In a staggering $13 million loss in season's load carried by 15.4 ships. When this cargo loss is multi cargo income. the LOG. Waterman Steamship Company is mainly responsible for Ships plying Lakes Michigan plied out, an alarming picture of the many jobs shipped through Detroit this year. A total of six vessels It should be kept in mind that took crews so far; they are the City of Alma, Chatham, Morning Light, these totals only reflect the loss Fairport, Yaka and the Maiden Creek. We expect the Desoto and incurred by vessels in the LCA Hastings and probably one or two more before the Seaway closes. fleet which represents 95 percent Once again, we are asking all members who do not have ratings in Ice-Scarred Nenana of U.S. ships on the Lakes. When either the Deck or Engine Departments to study the material supplied the total loss to both U.S. and by their Union so they can up-grade themselves into better paying jobs. Canadian fleets are calculated, the Many a good job is left hanging on the Board because members do seriousness of the low water level not have the qualifications. Has Successful Trip situation quickly becomes evident. George Leski shipped out of Chicago as permanent porter on the Shipments of iron ore, coal, grain Fred Manske and no doubt will finish the season on this one. The SEATTLE—Sailing on her first voyage after a dangerous and stone for both fleets are esti Milwaukee Clipper laid up and many of the steadies are grabbing Jobs encounter with Alaskan ice last Spring, the SIU Pacific mated to have dropped by a whop to get the necessary time in order to qualify for that rocking chair District-contracted freighter Nenana made up for lost time ping 9.4 million tons. Of these car money. when she arrived here in goes, the estimated loss In iron The Illinois State Federation Convention is going full blast in September with the largest ore shipments of 4.6 million tons, charged 266,000 cases of canned was the heaviest. Peoria, Illinois. The Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Water District, salmon catch in this area salmon, valued at nearly $8 mil SlU, has a number of delegates attending and the entire delegation during the curent season. lion. All of the salmon came from The effects of declining water has gone on record to support Johnson and Humphrey. All Great The 10.000 ton Liberty dis- Southeastern Alaska. levels is not confined to cargo re Lakes Ports have been active with local labor organizations in sup The Nenana's previous voyage strictions alone. Low water levels porting candidates seeking public office in the pending election. All did not meet with the same suc in the lower St. Mary's River area members are urged to register so they can vote on November 3 in cess as this one. On May 21, the has meant that the operations of this most important election year. Nenana left here bound for Good- the Davis and Sabin Locks at the Containership news Bay, Nome, Unalakleet and St. Marys Falls Canal at Sault Ste. St. Michael. After making her Marie, Mich., have been severely stop at Goodnews, she headed limited. Down-bound ships with Union Vote Results Build-Up Set north to Nome and ran into ice longer drafts are now forced to while still far out at sea. She be use the deeper MacArthur Lock came trapped for several hours of the canal since there is inade By Sea-Land and the Coast Guard cutter Storis quate water to fill the other locks. Upheld In Kingsport was sent out to aid her. She broke This has meant traffic congestion free, however, and the Stprls at the canals with delays from 2 KINGSPORT, Tenn.—The National Labor Relations Board NEW YORK — The SlU-con- turned back. to 9 hours. has upheld NLRB election victories won by unions at the tracted Sea-Land Service, Inc. Forced to Anchor Low water levels have not struck Kingsport Press plant here. In making* the decision, plans to put $190 million into a Six days later and only 75 miles proved a problem on Lakes Su the NLRB's regional director t major expansion program to build closer to Nome, the Nenana was perior, Ontario, Erie and the St. up its containership fleet. The forced to anchor behind St. Law Lawrence River. This has given overruled objections made by Regional Director Walter C. program calls for the conversion deep sea shipping a good advan Phillips of Atlanta said three rence Island because of the heavy management on certification of six C-4 cargo ships and the con ice. Her bow was twisted, three tage since vessels moving from the of unions winning bargaining groups of workers at the nation's struction of several new vessels. iower St. Lawrence River into largest hardcover book printing of her propeller blades were bent rights. The conversion part of the pro and a 30-foot gash on her port Lake Erie have good sailing all the plant have voted for union repre gram will see six C-4s transformed way to Detroit. These vessels have sentation; pressmen and assistants, side, near the waterline, had al into truck trailer carriers, each lowed six feet of water to pour been able to carry full Seaway Hydrofoil Seen bindery workers, and electro- capable of carrying 600 vehicles draft, which has been 25V4 feet typers. into the No. 1 hold, damaging Offering Fast with 35-foot-long bodies. The cost cargo. in 1964. The votes were cast March 10 of the conversion program is esti Battling fog, in addition to ice, The only drawback in this sit Cargo Service but were not counted until all ap mated to be $46 million. her pumps unable to cope with the uation, says Admiral Hirshfield, is NEW YORK — The day peals and objections had been dis The company has scheduled new rush of water through her twisted that most of this shipping has when 50-knot hydrofoils will posed of by the labor board and ship construction totaling $144 plates, the Nenana finally made been flying Canadian or foreign- be speeding cargoes to places the courts. Phillips listed these million. The new vessels are being anchor at the Nome roadstead on flags. He pointed out that there like Puerto Rico is not so far results: planned to carry 800 to 900 35-foot June 20. For much of the time, are very few LCA ships moving off, according to Rear Ad Bookbinders, with 1,504 work truck trailers. spotter aircraft had been used to between the lower St. Lawrence miral John Crumpacker, chief ers eligible; 863 for, 640 against, Upon completion of the conver guide her through the floes. and the Lakes. of the Navy's Bureau of Sup 13 for another union, 6 void, some sion work, Sea-Land will charter plies and Accounts. votes challenged but not enough the six 15,000 ton, 17-knot World Addressing the National De to change the result; Electrotypers, War II ships from Litton Indus New Cargo Transfer System fense Transportation Forum 335 eligible: 44 In favor, 25 op tries Leasing Corporation for a here, the officer said the Navy posed, 15 challenged (others voted ten-year period. Litton Leasing inspired By Ordinary Yo-Yo is now "deep in experimenta in the Bookbinders' unit); Press plans to buy the ships from the NEW YORK—The latest system for transferring cargo at sea tion with hydrofoils." He said men, 513 eligible: 242 for, 219 SlU-contracted Waterman Steam from one ship to another utilizes the principle on which an ordinary speeds of up to 100 knots are against, 8 not counted. ship Corporation, another subsid child's yo-yo operates. By copying the motion of a yo-yo rolling possible with the craft that up and down a string, it was found that the movement caused by The Allied Kingsport Press Un iary company of McLean Indus skims over the surface of the tries. sea swells can be countered. water, and that 50-knot ions, representing 1.300 union The six ships will be converted The "yo-yo" system, developed by the Westinghouse Corporation, speeds would be common workers, have been picketing the at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corpo does away with most of the difficulties usually experienced in cargo place. A practical limit on plant since March 11. 1963, for ration yards in Pascagoula, Miss., and personnel transfers at sea as a heavy ship bobs in the waves. size, he suggested, would be better wages and working condi Tlie Ingalls Corporallou is also a Another Important advantage of the system is that it doesn't re about 2,000 tons. tions. The NLRB permitted strik subsidiary of Litton Industries. quire specially trained personnel for its operation. Using the run from New ers and non-strikers to vote on the Conversion work is planned to The heart of the transfer system is a sensing device which meas York to San Juan as an ex la.st day of the one-year period begin Jan. 1, 1965 and the first ures the motion of the deck, relative to the crane. This information ample, Crumpacker noted that after the strike started, but im ship is expected to be ready for goes to the crane control in the form of an electronic signal where regular water service at eight pounded the ballots until all ap delivery nine-months later on it is compared with the crane's position and the load being carried. knots costs about one cent per peals had been disposed of, a pro Sept. 1. The other five ships are The system then automatically makes any corrections that are ton-mile, containerized service cedure the board said was unusual scheduled for completion at two- necessary. at 18 knots about five cents, but in keeping with the intent of month intervals. The safety aspects of the "yo-yo" system are considered one of Congress. and air freight at least 15 Sea-Land now maintains a fleet its major advantages. The system is so sensitive that it permits a cents. Hydrofoil runs at 50 The effect of the NLRB aide's composed of 14 vessels which serv load of cargo being transfered to "be kept at a constant distance knots, with a refueling stop at ruling is that Kingsport Press "has ices routes from New York to Cali above a rising and falling-deck within accurary limits of an inch. Bermuda, would cost about a legal duty now. to bargain with fornia, Puerto Rico and ports In The device responds almost instantaneously to changes in the posi nine cents per ton-mile. the unionS)" a labor spokesman Florida and Texas, the west coast tion of the deck. , !. said. and Alaska. October It, 1N4 SEAFARERS LOG rage ttinfr Soviets Ask Refuge; U.S. By Frank Droiak, West Coast Representative Wonders Why Senate Seat Contested In California CAPE COD—Federal officials are Politics Is still the chief item of Interest In California and tiiat inter still puzzling out a request they est is expected to huiid as the campairn goes Into its final weeks. received from several Russian fish The Democrats are predicting that toey will carry the state by a solid ing trawlers and a tug from the margin despite GOP claims of strong Goldwater feeling In the Los big Soviet fishing fleet operating Angeles and San Diego areas. Meanwhile, the state has piled up a off New England, asking for refuge record tally of registered voters, with more than «.l million citizens in Cape Cod Bay from the effects signed up to vote in November. Nearly 60 percent of the registered of Hurricane Gladys. Government voters are in the Democratic fold, and 39 percent are registered as officials say that the rights of safe -Republicans. The GOP registration total is their lowest since 1950. harbor were there for the taking, Credit should be given to the COPE registration drive undertaken but when an official request was by the AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions for the Job they did In getting made, U.S. policy forced its refusal. the eligible voters to the registration places. The U.S. wasn't being as cold- One of the first clear photos of the remains of the sunken Locally, Senate candidates Pierre Salinger and George Murphy met hearted as it sounded, since ancient Thresher shows the top side rudder of the doomed nuclear face-to-face, but not eye-to-eye, in a statewide television debate Octo sea law gave the Russians safe submarine. This picture was taken from the Navy's Bathy- ber 5. Murphy, an ex-Hollywood inovie star who is making his debut in harbor in a storm without asking scaph Trieste, II at e depth of over 8,000 feet. The Thresher politics with the current campaign, was an early Goldwater supporter formal permission. among the movie colony in Hollywood. Salinger, an ex-newsman and was lost with its crew of 129 men during a test dive in April, presidential press secretary to the late John F. Kennedy, is banking Ancient sea custom called "force 1963 off the coast of Cape Cod. on his experience in Washington with the major affairs of the natim majeure" permits any ship to seek to win election to the Senate seat held by Republican Claire Engle until port in a storm. By making their his death earlier this year. request, the Russians ran afoul of Thresher's Wreckage Democratic candidates, on the U.S. port security policy which for says he likes it just fine on the bids entry to Russian vessels into national and statewide ticket, are coast and that he is going to reg expected to win the votes of the our territorial waters without prior Found At 8,400 Feet ister here. He says he is ready to authority, according to Coast Guard estimated 20 to 30 percent of Re ship any time as an electrician. BOSTON—^After a year of painstaking search efforts, the main and State Department offcials. sections of the ill-fated nuclear submarine U.S.S. Thresher have publicans whom the polls and sur George Milhalponlas, who sails veys say will not support Gold- Coast Guard officials emphasized been located and photographed by the Navy. as a fireman-water tender, is an that the Russians could have gotten Large sections FIRST PRESSMEN ENDORSEMENT TO JOHNSON-HUMPHREY— For the first time In their 75 year history the Printing Pressmen's Union has given its backing to candidates for President and Vice Presi dent—Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey. The unprecedented action came at the union's 73th anniversary convention in Washington. The gathering was addressed by AFL-CIO President George Meany, who said: "There can be no doubt what the election of Barry Gold- water would mean to the working men and women of this country. His record speaks for Itself." Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, who also addressed the Pressmen's convention, said of Goldwater: "The GOP candidate's attitude toward jobs, social security and education give the voter a choice between the whole meaning of freedom and the opposite of freedom." $1 COPE 'FACT SHEET' LIST IMPRESSIVE—Millions of copies of campaign literature prepared by COPE, the political arm of the AFL- CIO, have been distributed to trade union members and their families and friends across the nation. COPE has prepared 11 different leaflets for use in th > campaign. They deal with peace, jobs, "right to work," unions, Johnson-Goldwater quotes on 20 important issues, Goldwater's anti-union program, control of nuclear arms and other aspects of the crucial 1964 elections. Also included are copies of the Republican candidate's voting record In the Senate. The literature is being present ed to Americans by every available means—mail, door-to-door and distribution at union meetings and other places where American work ers and their families congregate. •t i "t TRAINMEN'S CONVENTION BACKS JOHNSON-HUMPHREY— Joining In labor's drive to Insure the defeat of Goldwaterism In November, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has given its en dorsement to the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. Meeting in convention In Miami Beach, the 1,100 delegates voted to endorse the Democratic ticket and work for it In every possible way. In addition, the convention, through its president, Charles Luna, offered a vote of thanks to Presi dent Johnson for his efforts in solving the dispute over work rules on the railroads. Canton, Ohio has become the Police and firemen of Water- The oceans of words and libraries full of The parade of ships to runaway-flag na 38tli city In the United States to bury, Connecticut, have voted to studies, surveys and reports offered up by tions can and should be stopped by the gov enact an ordinance curbing the unionize under a new state law lawmakers and officials in Washington have ernment. The myth of "effective control" is use of professional strikebreakers permitting municipalities to bar not helped to pull the U.S. maritime indus just that, and the nation must have a strong in labor disputes. The ordinance gain collectively with their em was approved after an 18-month ployees. In secret balloting, 82 per try from the shoals of neglect and bad pol merchant fleet, manned by American crews, campaign in behalf of its passage cent of the 225 firemen voted to icy. Our fleet still gets smaller in strength if we are to meet the world emergencies by members of the Typographical join the AFL-CIO Fire Fighters and size yearly, while jobs in the industry which may lie ahead. Union and Majority Leader Daniel Union, and 78 per cent of the 250 E. Myers of the Canton City lawmen chose to affiliate with the decrease. Shipbuilding, the backbone of the On the home front, the Maritime Admin Council. State, County and Municipal Em maritime trade, suffers also, with shipyards ployees Union, the state AFL-CIO istration can do much by straightening out reported. working at about 60 percent of capacity. its willy-nilly subsidy program and ade The Screen Actors Guild has i. quately enforcing the rules on the shipment New vessels are highly specialized and signeJ an 18-month contract with The Railroad Trainmen, meeting of government financed or generated car Subscription Television, Inc., at Miami in convention, called highly automated. They are built to run as which operates pay tv stations in goes to see to it that American-flag vessels upon President Jidmson to help cheaply as possible on only the most lucra San Francisco and the Santa terminate the long-standing labor get their fair share. Such measures would Monica-Los Angeles area. The con tive routes. The tramps are in trouble as dispute on the Florida East Coast be a beginning for our maritime industry, a tract provides for minimums of Railway and restore service to the always, the bulk carriers are not doing well $100 per day and $350 per week beginning that would have as its end a level existing before Jan. 23, 1963. and the U.S.-flag tanker trade continues its for actors used by the company in The 1,100 delegates authorized a strong and prosperous U.S. seapower. filming motion pictures for Its net request for Johnson's personal in unabated rush to the runaway registries. work. Actors will receive a mini tervention with all dispatch and the mum of $150 per program. Nego full use of the power at his com Government financed or generated car tiations are continuing on a mand. The Trainmen noted that goes, intended by Congress to move in Amer Don't Be Misled formula for additional compensa Florida East Coast counties have tion for continued use of films In been deprived of railway passen ican ships, have fallen to vessels of other As the election campaign heats up in its which the actors appear. The ger, mail and express service by flags. 1 final weeks, the charges will flow more free formula will be based on specified rail management's refusal to come periods of use and an Increase in to terms with employes. Nearly ly and be of a wilder nature. Already, Gold- the number of subscribers to Our coastwise carriers are beset by the water has accused Johnson of being "soft STV's service. 2,000 union workers have been un employed since the dispute started. rate-cutting antics of the railroads, and can on Communism" and of leading a "fascist" 4- 4f 4* find no real relief from the railroad-oriented Democratic party, and it looks as if there A three-year agreement provid The Railway Patrolmen meeting Interstate Commerce Commission, which will be more of that sort of talk to come. ing 18 cents hour in wages in in New York at their 19th conven seems bent on weakening the once healthy creases and more in fringe bene tion, have approved the chartering The smart voter learns to separate the chaff fits was reached between Armour of three new local unions in the fleet. of election time smears from the r'^al issues & Co., mcatpackers, and its 12,000 Minneapolis area and has reported before the nation. Those issues remain when employees who are members of membership gains in two other The situation on the Lakes is also deterio the Packinghouse Workers and areas. Members were informed the name-calling has died down, and the Meatcutters Union. The n^w con that the union has been certified rating. While our fleet grows older and less way we can find out more about them is tract, still subject to ratification as bargaining agent for members at efficient, its number decreasing yearly, for by paying attention to the serious side of by" the membership, will up pen the Portland, Ore., freight terminal, eign operators are moving more and more the campaign. Goldwater's record speaks sions and life insurance and pro and on the Northern Pacific Rail cargo in the region. for itself. Goldwater's anti-labor, anti-hu vide a major medical insurance way. In other union business dele man welfare attitude stands out despite the program for workers and their gates from 35 local unions re cover-up of loose talk he tries to mask it families. Retained in the new con elected Pres. William J. Ryan and What the maritime industry needs at this with. In less than a month's time U.S. citi tract is a provision for cost-of- Secretary-TreasuCer Cecil Smith- point is not more studies and sympathy, how living increases. Most of the af son for another tWo-year term and zens will have the chance to show that they fected workers live in the mld- voted to hold the next-convention ever, it is action—action that can only,/be understand the real issues when they cast • west • • ' • , • in Cleveland. taken by the U,S. Government. their votes. , , I i . I, • • 1 , I 1 ' Page Twdve SEAFARERS LOG October IC, ISM O SEAFARER needs to be told that the U.S. mari N time industry has been in a steep decline since the end of WW II. Entering any port, he can see this Obsolete Policies, Governmenial Neglect plainly by looking at the names and registries of the vessels around him. Fewer American-flag ships have Are At Base Of US. Shipping Problems been putting to sea with each passing year. The U.S. emerged from World War II as the greatest merchant THE UNSUBSIDIZED BERTH LINE PROBLEM marine power in the world. Our merchant fleet, greater THE DRY CARGO TRAMPS AND BULK CARRIERS This is the segment of the Industry on which the sur than the fleets of all other maritime nations combined, Under present conditions It Is virtually impossible for the unsubsidized berth line operator to survive. vival of the entire industry possibly hinges. Like the then numbered some 2,332 privately-owned vessels, of rest of the U.S. maritime industry, the dry cargo tramps which 1,890 were engaged in foreign trade and 442 in Berth line operators are those which make regularly scheduled sailings on designated trade routes. The and bulk carriers are being faced with annihilation under domestic trade. Today our entire active oceangoing present policies. merchant fleet numbers less than 900 privately-owned subsidized liners are berth line operators which get vessels and the percentage of our trade carried on these government subsidy money to help make their operations In 1937, bulk cargoes, dry and liquid, made up 67 vessels has declined even further. profitable. The overpowering problems faced by the percent of U.S. waterbdrne trade while packaged liner- unsubsidized berth line operators is demonstrated by the type cargoes constituted 43 percent. But by 1962 U.S. To the nation this means a weakening of our national fact that thriee of these operations have gone bankrupt trade patterns had changed so that bulk cargoes rose eecurity and tremendous gaps in our defense structure. within the past year. to 83.4 percent of our overseas trade, while packaged To Seafarers it means all that plus a loss of job security. Many of the inequities of U.S. maritime policy and liner-type cargoes had declined to only 16.6 percent. But What is the cause of this situat'ran? A continuing study because our subsidy and maritime policy was allowed to made by the SlU to help reverse this downward trend administration came into play in the death of these companies. Stricter and more reasonable enforcement fall so fai* behind modern needs, although bulk cargoes of the U.S. maritime industry and protect Seafarer's jobs now make up almost 84 percent of our total foreign trade, highlights a number of key issues. of cargo preference laws, to put Government-generated cargoes in the holds of the vessels which need them American-flag ships are carrying only 5 percent of these cargoes, the remaining 95 percent going to foreign and THE SUBSIDY QUESTION most, would have aided these companies. The Govern ment agencies administering these laws failed to do runaway-flag vessels. Runaway-flag Liberian and Pana Today there are about 318 subsidized vessels operated this however. Legislation allowing non-subsidized lines manian ships carry more than four times as much U.S. by 15 American shipping companies. In otner words to set aside tax-free funds to help build new ships to foreign cargo as U.S. ships; Norwegian-flag ships alone only one-third of the U.S.-flag merchant fleet is being replace obsolete vessels would have aided these com carry one and a half times as much; British and mis helped by the subsidy program and the whole remainder panies. Such legislation was never passed, however. cellaneous flags between them carry over three times of the fleet, some 600 vessels, including the increasingly the volume of cargo carried by American flags. Lack of important dry cargo tramps and bulk carriers, are being FMC Regulations recognition of modern trade patterns ha? led our Ameri totally ignored and allowed to wither. Forcing foreign-flag lines to comply with regulations can-flag dry cargo tramp and bulk-carrying fleet to the Even among the 15 subsidized companies, six of the and order of the Federal Maritime Commission, as U.S.- brink of obsolescence and bankruptcy. 15 have received about 76 percent of all the operating flag lines are required to do at great hardship and The cause of the steady decline of this increasingly differential subsidies given out. The picture is further expense, would have been a big help to these companies. vital segment of our maritime industry can be traced complicated by the shift in U.S. trade patterns. The American-flag operators must give the FMC vast amounts to many factors in our obsolete maritime policy. total foreign trade of the U.S. during 1962 totalled of documents, records, financial reports, rate information 1936 Merchant Marine Act 293,686,000 long tons. Of this huge volume, U.S. ships and other data on their operations. All this paperwork Subsidy provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of carried only 27.945,000, or a tiny 9.5 percent. With the costs the U.S. operators a great deal of money which 1936 have been badly administered to deny subsidy aid shifts in U.S. trade patterns however, liner type cargoes the foreign-flag operators don't have to lay out. This for the construction of new bulk carriers. Cargo prefer now make up only 16 percent of all U.S. foreign cargoes, represents a terrific money drain on the American oper ence laws, specifically designed to aid this unsubsidized so the subsidized liners actually wound up carrying a ators who are finding it hard to compete with low-wage segment of the industry have not been properly enforced, microscopic 3.5 percent of all commercial cargoes. For foreign-flag operators anyway. But the FMC has con denying them the cargoes which should rightfully be this, they got all of the available subsidy money. stantly knuckled-under to the refusal of these foreign-flag theirs. Here the Department of Agriculture is the prime Govern.ment-Generated Cargoes operators to supply data on their operations as the offender, and if the U.S. maritime industry does finally American operators must. Giving these unsubsidized pass away completely, it will be the Agriculture Depart- The liner segment has also been getting about IV/i companies a better share of military cargoes would have percent of the total Government-generated cargoes as jnent which has shoveled the most dirt Into the grave. aided them. Instead the intent of the 50-50 laws was The consistent record of the Department of Agriculture well. The cargo preference laws .were passed to help thwarted by supposedly responsible Government agencies. the dry cargo tramp, bulk carrier and tanker segments indicates that its main interest is in spending monies on of the fleet which do not get subsidies. It hasn't worked All of these and many more factors entered into the its own program and in conserving funds meant for the out that way however, thanks to the Government agencies death throes of the unsubsidized berth line operators. American merchant marine by carrying out Its own involved. Changes in maritime policy, change in administration, and devious scheme of seeing to it that "no more than 50 IWismanagenient by supposedly responsible Government up-to-date studies of today's trade patterns are necessary percent" of tne cargoes shall move in American-flag agencies has given the subsidized operators yet another to prevent the entire maritime industry from following ships, rather than the "at least 50 percent" required by boon denied to other segments of the industry. These the unsubsidized berth line operations into bankruptcy. the cargo preference laws. subsidized lines can deposit monies in tax-free reserve Foreign Supply Missions funds for purposes of ship replacement. But the rest The Agriculture Department seems determined to of the industry isn't allowed to do this and their vessels destroy the U.S. maritime industry. The scandalous oper are rapidly approaching mass obsolescence. ation of the various foreign supply missions have, with Subsidies are necessary to help the U.S. maritime the blessings of the Agriculture Department, imposed industry stand up against low wage, low maintenance terms and conditions in charter parties and used other foreign competition, and to provide the defense and unfair practices against American-flag vessel operators economic strength necessary to maintain national security. which are defeating the entire purpose of the cargo But a realization of changing trade patterns and more preference program as far as unsubsidized American intelligent handling of the subsidy program is immediately tramp operators are concerned. These Agriculture De necessary. Despite the huge expenditure of subsidy money partment-sanctioned tactics by the foreign supply mis over the years, there is little doubt that the subsidized sions have caused irreparable Injury to the American segment of the industry would still be in financial trouble merchant marine. The tactics of the Indian supply except for the money it gets from Government-generated mission are a classic example. cargoes which were Intended to aid the unsubsidized India Is far and way the biggest recipient of Public segments of the industry. This disproportionate amount Law 480 grain cargoes designated by law to be hauled of aid given to liners, actually amounting to a triple % in American bottoms to aid the U.S. maritime industry. subsidy, is going to a segment of the industry which has Yet the Indian supply mission has done everything in been steadily declining in importance in the general Its power to discourage American-flag ships from par picture of our foreign trade. It is time this fact was ticipating in can-ying these cargoes with the aid of the recognized by the responsible Government agencies. Agriculture Department. Merchant Fleet Decline Threatens October 16. 1964 SEAFARERS LOG r»C« TUrtcca decent wages to the foreign nationals they employ and undermined by the railroads and other modes of trans Any Seafarer who has made the graiii run to cut safety and maintenance costs to the bone. portation during their absence that they could no longer India has experienced long waits, sometimes of The tankships which remain under American registry compete. The natural cost advantage of waterborne over three weeks, while his ship stood outside an have been waging a losing struggle against competition cargoes which are cheaper than rail cargoes was nullified Indian port waiting for permission to unload its for cargoes from runaway operators, overland pipelines by predatory, selective rate-cutting practices of the cargo of P.L. 480 grain. This is but one of the and foreign vessels. Yet they are allowed no subsidies railroads. The very government to whose aid the domestic Indian supply mission's tactics for discouraging and get no help at aU from U.S. government agencies. fleet had come in time of dire need turned, and continues U.S.-flag participation in the carriage of P.L. 480 By 1962 independent American-flag tankers carried only to turn a deaf ear to all pleas for help. Almost always grain cargoes. 2.5 percent of the total U.S. tanker cargoes. the Interstate Commerce Commission allows selective and predatory rate cutting by the railroads which has already Hold-Ups, Delays The Suez Crisis A glut of American-flag tankers is competing for these just about driven the common carrier segment of the First of all, the Agriculture Department allows remaining cargoes. Many of them were built at the domestic fleet off the seas. The railroad-oriented ICC, the Indian supply mission to refuse to pay the time of the Suez Crisis, when the Nasser-inspired for example, has consistently supported railroad rate U.S.-flag shipowner any compensatory demurrage Egyptian takeover of the Suez Canal frightened the U.S. cutting aimed at driving SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines, rate when his vessel is delayed due to a fault of Government into paying some attention to the terrible one of the few domestic operators remaining, out of the chartering party, the Indian supply mission. condition of our tanker fleet, and into realizing the business. As Seafarers know, Seatrain has already been In many instances the fact is that the Indian supply dangers of the situation. forced to discontinue service to Savannah and New mission refuses to pay any demurrage at all. This is Our tanker construction program was far behind Orleans, and the railroads are stepping up their ICC- in complete opposition to the normal maritime pro schedule when the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal Bupported drive to destroy the line completely. cedure of paying the snips operator for time he threatened our oil supplies. We simply lacked the tanker Domestic Fleet Decline loses because of the charters, or, as in this case the tonnage to carry enough oil for our own needs. A crash The railroads have been very successful with the help Indian mission. program to build tankers was begun, but by the time of the ICC. At the end of 1961 the domestic fleet had Then the Agriculture Department gives the supply the first of these tankers was launched the crisis was already declined from 805 to 363 vessels, of which 273 mission the option of ordering the vessel to dis over. As usual, with the crisis ended, the U.S. Govern were in the coastwise trades, 31 in the intercoastal trade, charge at any safe port on the west coast of India ment forgot all about these new tankers and left them and 59 in non-contiguous trades such as Hawaii and or two safe ports on the east coast. This allows to shift for themselves. Foreign-flags once more carry Puerto Rico. the mission to use this extraordinary leeway to our oil supplies. From the standpoint'of national security With predatory and destructive ICC-supported com discourage U.S.-flag operators from entering the this is a serious situation. Should Nasser turn on the heat petition from the railroads dealing body blows to what trade. American-flag vessels are ordered only into again in Suez we could again be caught short on tankers is left of the domestic carriers, the inconsistent and often extremely congested ports where they have long and therefore on vital oil as well. antagonistic policies of the Maritime Administration do waits before unloading (without any payment of In their desperation to get any kind of cargo, many nothing to build confidence in the liiture of domestic demurrage) while foreign-flag vessels are ordered independent American-flag tankers have entered the grain shipping for prospective investors. The recent fiasco- Into uncongested ports where they can unload im trade, further complicating the losing battle already in which the MA changed horses in mid-stream over mediately and be on their way profitably. being fought by the dry cargo tramp and bulk carrier C-4 transfer policy is a perfect example of this. Instead Recently for example, the Indians ordered one fleets. This is a doubly dangerous fact as far as U.S. of using the ship transfer polieies to help update and American ship Into the strikebound port of Vizaga- seamen's jobs are concerned because the graiu tonnage modernize the U.S. fleet, the MA instead makes the pro patam in spite of the fact that Calcutta was strike- carried by one of the supertankers is equal to that of cedure as difficult and as costly as possible. free. This made it necessary tor the American several C-2s, bringing about a corresponding loss in THERE IS A SOLUTION vessel to wait in the strikebound port for three crewmen's jobs. A study of the decline of the U.S. merchant fleet leads weeks without payment of demurrage. to two basic conclusions as to the cause—the failure of Another device of the Indian supply mission which THE PLIGHT OF COASTWISE AND INTER- our maritime policies to keep pace with the changing Is sanctioned by the Agriculture Department, con COASTAL VESSELS conditions of this ever-changing world, and the basically trary to normal maritime practice, is the provision In some ways the plight of the U.S. coastwise and anti-maritime attitude of so many of those very govern ment agencies and administrators which are charged that 90 percent of the freight on these P.L. 480 Intercoastal fleet is the saddest of any segment of U.S. grain shipments shall be paid after the arrival of maritime. with the duty of preserving and strengthening the U.S. maritime industry. the cargo in India. This requires the American At the end of 1939 the domestic fleet consisted of 805 owner to finance the shipment in advance, con Through the President's Maritime Advisory Commit ships—568 in the coastwise trade, 165 in the intercoastal tee and before the Congress, the SlU has made numer trary to normal practice, and wait, possibly months, trade and 72 in non-contiguous operations, such as be for payment. The regular, accepted procedure is ous recommendations for changes in U S maritime policy tween the U.S. east coast and Puerto Rico. At the aimed at reversing the continuing downward trend of for the ship operator to be paid 90 percent of beginning of WW II, the coastwise and Intercoastal fleets the freight in advance. The situation has gotten the US. maritime industry. supplied 36 percent of the ships and 33 percent of the • Subsidies, both operating differential and cons.lruc- so bad that several American-flag tramp operators tonnage requisitioned by the Government for wartime have gone bankrupt while carrying these Cargo ^ tion, should be extended to all segments of the maritime service. After serving their country bravely and well Industry, expecially those such as dry cargo tramps and Preference cargoes, which were Intended to aid i without complaint for the duration of the war, these U.S.-flag tramps. i| bulk carriers whose relative importance in the total pic vessels returned to find that their position had been so ture of U.S. trade has expanded enormously in recent years, but whose numbers have continued to dwindle. • There must be stricter and more reasonable enforce THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN-FLAG TANKERS ment of cargo preference laws which could definitely as. SHIPPING help American-flag lines engaged in foreign trade were AND RUNAWAYS they not undermined by some of the Government agen U.S. tanker cargoes during 1962 totaled 40 percent of cies administering such laws. all U.S. cargoes. But American-flag tankers carried only • Enactment of legislation permitting non-subsidized 4.2 percent of this volume. At the end of 1962 this is lines the same tax benefits now available to subsidized the situation which prevailed: The U.S. had the oldest tULk ^7% lines should be begun immediately. In this way, unsub- tanker fleet afloat; we stood in fourth place among the sidized lines could create cash reserves for construction world's maritime nations in terms of T-2 carrying or reconstruction and replacement of their rapidly aging capacity; more than two-thirds of the U.S. privately Bvu Merchant Marine Turbines By Joseph B. Logiw, MD, Mtdieal Director NEW YORK—The merchant marine Indu stry may bo standing on tho verge of a Jet age. Jet power, used to speed airplanes across continents, is now being tried on ships to Food Poisoning On Rise speed them across the oceans, One of America's most highly respected scientiflo groups has charged The Pratt & Whitney Divi lighter and taket less spac* in a practicality for marine use. The In a recently Issued report that mild food poisoning Is becoming a com ship for the horsepower it delivers FT-4, for instance, required special mon occurrence and that modem food processing methods are most sion of the United Aircraft (The FT-4 is only 29 feet long materials to prevent corrosion by iikeiy reeponsibie, as reported in the HEALTH BULLETIN. Corporation has confirmed and weighs 13,400 pounds). Con salt water. Developed with Navy A special committee of tho National Academy of Sciences, charged reports that it is engaging in talks trols are simplified. help, the company found that the with investigating food microbiology, points out that some of the most with maritime industry leaders on modern and up-to-date food processing methods are actually creating The prime drawback of marine sulpur in Navy diesel fuel had a the application of jet turbine tendency to combine with salt food poisoning problems. The committee singled out low heat process power to the merchant marine. jets at this time is the fact that ing, freeze drying, packaging, automatic vending, pre-co SEAFARERS PORTS OP THE WORLD Located In the Persian Gulf, only a few miles from the eastern seaboard of Saudi Arabia, lies the island of Bahrein, the largest of a group of islands that com mand the entrance to the Gulf of Silwah and the Quatar Penmsula of Saudi Arabia. Manamah, the capital city of the British protectorate, is located on the northern shore of the island, near the eastern tip. On a site only 20 miles from Manamas is a large oil refinery of the Cal-Tex Oil Co. which is a frequent port of call for SIU supertankers such as the Mount Vernon Victory Md the Mount Washington. Tankers of the Western Tanker Co. also stop at the refinery quite fre quently, to discharge crude petroleum and take on re fined petroleum products. The two basic industries of the city are fishing and raising dates, although a number of the inhabitants are hired by the refinery. The island is mostly a rocky waste, however, with a few springs scattered through out which provides enough vegetation to support some small herds of goats and sheep. The water on the island coming from springs and freshwater springs located s>n <17 + Manamah harbor, is considered quite The above photo of the downtown section of the city of Manamah shows the western Influence ill-tasting and takes some time to get used to. Pearl on the city in contrast to the middle east tradition. In the center Is the Friday mosque, one of divers bring the fresh water from the harbor to the . the landmarks of the city. surface in goatskin bags. Manamah's harbor is quite shallow, and cargo ves sels, discharging the foods and other necessities of the ^habitants of the island, must use launches to unload. The refinery, however, has a wharf which is large enough for three or four supertankers and has under water facilities for unloading and loading petroleum products directly to and from the ships while anchored in the harbor. Seafarers visiting the capitol city will find a British atmosphere to the city, even though most of the build ing in the city are made in the traditional Arabic stvle. The city boasts several hotels, a large market place and various shops and small industries. Seafarers can find many good buys in the market place and some times find cameras and radios at a cost below that of the country in which they are manufactured. Manamah also has an airport, where the BOAC Club is located, and where Americans and Britains stop for a cool drink. Recent visitors to the city say that the Inhabitants of the city are very friendly aiid helpful. Dancers outside of the Palace of the Ruler Supertankers such as the Mount Vernon of Bahrein celebrate the end of the Moslem Victory (above) are frequent visitors to month of fasting. the refinery located near the capltol city. The market place in Manamah will give Another landmark of the city of Manamah, above, is the Bah al-Bahreln Gate, located in the business sec Seafarers views like the above goldsmith, working his art in the open air. this sW^cen^e' '"''"ence on the life of the 40.000 Inhabitants of the city is noticeable In P«g« SIztecB SEAFARERS LOG Ofltober U, im Prop»Hmr CIvh Hman Seairain Offieial Finds Rail Rate Juggling By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS Chokes DomesticShipping Gov't Heeds Consumer Complaints NEW YORK—Speaking out strongly against unfair rate manipulation by the railroads, Housewives, wage-earners and representatives of community organi John L. Waller, president of SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines, said that such rate juggling has sations have had an unusual opportunity at a series of conferences to tell businessmen their complaints and buying problems. The confer brought about a stagnation in intercoastal and coastal oceanborne commerce. ences have been sponsored by Esther Peterson, President Johnson's In an address before the"*^ consumer assistant, in conjunction with local organizations at St. Louis, 38th Annual Convention of the levels, making up for their losses the subsidized cargo liner* have Salt Lake City and Detroit, with one in Atlanta also scheduled. by raising rates In areas where been undercutting the tramps in Propeller Club, Waller out competition for government-gen These conferences have been useful in showing the wide extent of lined the methods used by the there la no competition. The water carriers must match the un erated cargoes. consumer problems, and that businessmen are beginning to regard railroads to drive domestic water these consumer complaints as serious and widespread. There has been carriers out of business. Ha said profitable and unfair rates or be "It is certainly not the intent of forced to abandon operations in our shipping statutes that subsi a long and still sometimes persistent tendency among businessmen to the rail lines select items of belittle consumer complaints as stirred up by a handful of "profes that cargo category. dized lines should be encouraged freight importance to the water sional consumers," or confined to just fringe rackets. carriers and cut rates to very low Another method used by the and allowed to compete with un- railroads, Weller said, was to raise subsidized vessels for the carriage But now the businessmen are getting worried on their own account. rates on freight moving to ports of cargo preference freight," At the Great Lakes consumer conference, co-sponsored by the Michi- while lowering rates on routes Smith said, adding that the Cargo gan Credit Union League, which we covered, we counted four repre running parallel to those of water Preference Act was enacted to sentatives from the National Association of Manufacturers; two from Fish Industry carriers. A third tactic used by assist unsubsidized carriers. national and local Chambers of Commerce; three from the largest soap the railroads is to offer volume In a third address to the Pro and toiletries manufacturer, who is also the largest national advertiser; shippers very low rates if they peller Club convention. Vice Ad three from the local utility company, as well as actually hundreds of Study Held By agree to ship all, or most, of their miral James Hirshfield, USCG others from grocery chains, loan companies, large food manufacturers freight by rail. (Ret.), president of the Lake Car and distribulirs, advertising agencies and other businessess. ICC Relnctant riers Association, noted that ship For at the conference, the ordinary • consumers among the 1,500 Advisory Board All three devices are forbidden obsolescence was growing steadily people in attendance, were backed up by well-infoi'med and articulate BEVERLY, Mass.— The Ameri under Interstate Convmerce Com on the Great Lakes. He said that representatives from labor unions, consumer co-ops, family service can Fisheries Advisory Committee mission regulations, Weller said, while the present fleet grows older agencies and other community organizations. The representatives of held a three-day meeting here re but the ICC has shown over the and less efficient, there are no the Michigan and Ohio state federation of labor proved to be power cently, Oct. 5, 6 and 7, to review years that it is most reluctant to new vessels being added to the houses of facts and figures in stating their determination to secure a national and international prob restrain the rail carriers. Lakes fleet and none under con redress of the high installment fees and other overcharges working struction. people pay out of their hard-won wage gains. lems confronting the American "If the water carrier files a fishing industry. complaint, months and years are It will be useful to you In your own family management to know The committee also reviewed re consumed in commission hearings, what were the most-frequent consumer problems and complaints re search and other programs spon examiners reports, division re ported at the conference by Individual consumers and representatives sored by the Interior Department's ports, oral arguments and com Matson Gets of community organizations. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. mission decisions. While all this The price of food proved to be a subject of controversy. People from Fishery developments in the goes on, the water carrier either the food industry tried to answer this complaint by quoting the U.S. New England area, in addition, loses the traffic or caiTies it at MA Approval Agriculture Department to the effect that "food is a bargain," which were also discussed at the com unrenumerative rates," Weller is a worn-out promotional slogan used over and over by the department mittee's 18th meeting. The previ told the convention. through successive administrations. It was also argued that food now ous session was held in Hawaii The only solution to the prob To Sell Liner takes a smaller share of wage-earners' income. last January. lem, Weller suggesited, was to ask WASHINGTON—The Maritime But consumer representatives pointed out that food prices actually Committee members include in Congress to change the Interstate Administration has approved the have gone up more than other non-food commodities such as appliances dividuals actively engaged in the Commerce Act and create legisla sale of SlU-Pacific District-con and clothing, and the only reasons food takes a smaller percentage of commercial fishing industry. They tion applying the concepta of the tracted Matson Line's passenger income today than in earlier years, is that (1) wage-earners have man advise the Interior Secretary on Sherman-Clayton and Robinson- ship Lurline to a British company, aged to win income increases and (2) farmers have helped restrain matters pertaining to the industry. Patman Acts under which other Chandris Ltd. for about $1.8. The food prices from further advances through currently higher production The committee was set up In American industries regulate their Lurline, renanted the Ellinis, will per acre by means of mechanization, improved fertilization techniques, 1935 under terms o.f the Salton- operations. operate between England and etc. In short, it isn't the food retailers and manufacturers who are scall-Kennedy Act which makes Earl J. Smith, chairman of the New Zealand. responsible for the fact that food prices now take a somewhat smaller money available to the Interior American Tramp Shipowners The MA approved the sale after share of Income, but unions and farmers. Department for research on do Association, who also addressed getting the OK of the Defense mestically produced fishery prod the Propeller Club, warned that and Navy departments. Approval ucts and other programs. the U.S.-flag tramp and tanker was given under several condi ^ The testing and tasting of Ir fleets are being ignored in mari tions, namely, that the Lurline radiated fishing products also was time legislation while the growth would be made available to the The Maritime Muddle a feature of the three-day Beverly of subsidized cargo liner opera U.S. for a period of five years In meeting. tions is being fostered. He said the event that an emergency arose during that time, th^ she would (Continued from page 13) Lifeboat Class 118 Graduates not be used for trade with Com as American-flag lines. This would be a big step toward leveling the munist bloc nations, that she competitive advantage now being enjoyed by foreign-flag lines over would not be chartered to aliens their American-flag counterparts. Money spent by U.S.-flag operators without Navy approval and that to produce paperwork required by the FMC cannot be used for oper she would not engage in U.S. com ating, maintaining or modernizing their fleets and saddle them with merce for five years without per extra expenses at a time when they are already barely able to com mission from the MA. pete with low-wage foreign-flag competition. These are the same so-oalled • There should be centralized responsibility for administering the "effective control" terms whic(h Cargo Preference laws. Also, the 50 percent minimum must be en apply to most American-flag ships forced for these cargoes as was intended, instead of the 50 percent sold to foreigners or transferred minimum which has been practiced. Waivers of cargo preference requirements should be administered so that a minimum of foreign to foreign registry or runaway- vessels are allowed to participate. flags. • To help the U.S.'s vital independent tankship industry the White The true effectiveness of "ef House should issue a directive requiring that at least 25 percent of fective control" has been a mat our crude oil and petroleum product imports must be carried in ter of controversy for some time American-flag tankers built in American shipyards. The percentage however. As recent events in such should be set to meet our defense needs at all times. Other nations runaway-flag nations as Panama already have such directives. France for example, requires that 80 and Honduras have shown, politi percent of its oil imports must be carried in French-flag tankers. If cal upheavals and government just a small percentage of U.S. oil imports were required by law to changes can cast grave doubt as move on U.S.-flag ships it would provide enough cargoes to keep our to the enforcability of the effec independent tanker tonnage at work, provide jobs for American crews tive-control terms of such sale and remove the tankers from the grain trade to provide more Jobs contracts. In time of real national for dry cargo tramps and bulk carriers and their crews. emergency, many feel, American • The rehabilitation of the coastal and intercoastal fleets requires ships sailing under foreign regis that the ICC be redrganized to provide for representation of a ship try might not be available for use ping point of view. The agency's strong leanings toward the rail by the U.S. roads must be modified. Attempts, to undermine the provisions of the Under the sale contract allowed Jones Act to allow foreign-flag vessels snto the U.S. domestic trades by the MA, the Lurline, now the must be stopped. As an immediate economic aid to this segment Ellinis, is permitted to make of the industry, the Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal operators Members of Lifeboat Class 118 are all grins as they sit for cruises out of U.S. ports between should be reduced or eliminated. For vessels which shuttle con their graduation picture after successfully meeting all re June 1 and October 1 during the stantly through the Canal, the tolls they must pay for e»ch voyage quirements for their tickets at New York headquarters. The five year period when she is not mount to staggering proportions. Just as multiple-trip tickets can be graduates are (front row, l-r) Mfchael Denise, Delvin John supposed to engage in U.S. com bought at a discount by regular users of a roll highway, a way should be found to ease this burden for our intercoastal carriers. — son; (middle) Luis A. Bonefort, Jqmes E. Travis, George merce. The company has also made clear that it hopes to be al All of this can't be done overnight. But a step' in any of the rec Muaieea, Lewis Lamphere; (rear) German Rios, Mike lowed to use the vessel for a new ommended direction would bring immediate benefits and bring us a Rimka, Neil Napolitano and instructor Arne Bjornsson. Caribbean cruise service as well. step closer to a healthy maritime.. OcMbwl«, ItM SEAFARERS LOG Pa«« Unemployment's Cost Looms By Fred Stewart & Ed Mooney Bigger Than Mere Numbers Headquarters Representatives LOS ANGELES—Unemployment has a dampening effect on the American economy far Good Feeding Takes Planning greater than the actual numbers of people out of work would indicate, a University of Keepinr a crew well-nourished and satisfied with tasty, well-4>repared Michigan economist explained here. meals is the task of the steward department. It is an exactinr Job, and not at all an easy one. Seafarers tove every risht to demand yood food Dr. Eva L. Mueller pointed group has expressed concern prepared and served under the best possible sanitary conditions and out that national concern strated impact of consumers' ex about job security or has had di pectations regarding business every right to demand a clean ship where waste is properly disposed of. about work opportunities rect contact with the unemployed. Under the Maritime Advancement Program, the SIU Food and Ship conditions on large discretionary causes consumers to be cautious Among families who have not had Sanitation Program has made great strides in upgrading the dining and expenditures, she said. unemployment experience since sanitation facilities aboard all SIU ships. about spending and thus retards "If there are any fears oir un- The Food and Ship Sanitation Department has its headquarters in income and employment growth. 1960, more than one-fourth report •ertainties regarding one's eco such exiperience during the last New York, and it also has Field Representatives in San Francisco, She spoke to a section of the nomic status In this affluent Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Baltimore. It is the duty of all American Psychological Associa few years among friends, neigh society," she continued, "they the representatives of this Program to assist all stewards and their de tion. bors, or relatives. concern primarily the adequacy Economic expectations, which of work opportunities. It is not partments in any way possible in enabling them to provide a better Dr. Mueller, who participates quality, and a better prepared and served meal to all of our SIU have been shown to exert a strong difficult to understand that, when in continuous studies of the na influence on the level ci con ever these uncertainties grow, membership. tional economy as a study direc All of the representatives of the Food and Ship Sanitation Depart sumer demand, also depend on a many consumecs, even those who tor with the Survey Research large number of other environ are not unemployed, spend more ment are full book members of this Union, and each of them has also Center of the U-M Institute for sailed as a chief steward on our SlU-eontracted vessels for numer mental factors which are more or cautiously and delay some post- Social Research, said in sum less important at different times, ponable purchases. ous years. mary: she pointed out. The cold war for "The dampening of consumer The main purpose of this department is simply this: "better food, "There Is evidence of wide prepared under more sanitary con-+ example, in recent years has optimism as a result of our high spread concern about work oppor loomed large in the minds of con level of unemployment imposes ditions for our membership, at control of inventories, the cooks tunities among the American peo a lower cost to the shipowner or sumers. some cautions and restraint on have the raw materials out of ple. Worries stemming from the The effect of employment con consumer spending which, in operator." which to prepare attractive, nour high unemployment rate are rein This was an still is a new field ditions on expectations is of major turn, reduces the demand for la ishing meals. The Food Program forced by reports and notions Interest because of the demon bor. that the SIU has challenged, but is out to do away with the old about the Impact of automation. in order to accomplish the main practice of cooking large quantities Analysis indicates that awareness purpose of this department, we of food in advance and then let of unsatisfactory employment believe the four following points ting the meal dry up on the steam conditions affects economic ex to be the controlling factors; stor table. Broiled and grilled foods pectations. It also appears that Scientist Invents ing, inventory control, prepara are cooked as ordered, roasts are the unfavorable impact on expec tion and service. carved to order and Individual tations is not limited to the rela STORING: The starting point servings of side items such as but tively small group' who have of an effective feeding program is ter are substituted for "family- suffered unemployment or income 'Gill' for Huntans proper storing in three areas: style" dishes which have been the declines in the past year." quantity, quality and variety. The NEW YORK—A man-made rubber membrane that will source of much shipboard waste. She explained that whereas Food Program has developed a The storing of pre-packaged, pre- allow humans to breathe under water as if they had the master storing list based on 30- some 20 percent of family heads cut frozen foods eliminates a great who are wage and salary earners gills of a fish has been developed by scientists at the Gen day units for a crew of 50. Using deal of trimming, butchering, eral Electric Company. -• this list as a take-off point, field have been unemployed at least washing and other preparatory once since 1960, a much larger Made of silicone rubber ters of a cubic foot of air each representatives, can check on the work and makes it possible for hour. To provide that amount, two adequacy of stores and see that one thousandth of an inch cooks to prepare dishes to order thick, the membrane was demon and one half yards of the mem they are of proper quality. Short- on short notice. brane would have to be used un storing results in items running strated here by Dr. Walter L. SERVICES: The end-product of Robb, who led the development less some way could be found to out while en-route. Excess stores all the preparation should be an Equality Is increase the pressure to force lead to spoilage and waste. Both work. Using a container whose attractively-served meal. A clean, top, bottom and two sides were more air through the membrane. drawbacks can come together, for properly-set table, adequate silver Another possibility would be to without a master list, some items made (rf the membrane. Dr. Robb and glassware, the use of clean Labor's Goal put a hamster into the container find some way of wrapping the may run short and others may be mess jackets, ample side dishes quantity of membrane into a com in oversupply. Emphasis is also (Continued from page 2) and lowered it into a tank of for vegetables, bread, butter and water. Had the container been pact package. placed on use of top-quality, pre- other items all help make for that the 131i million members of cut and pre-packaged frozen meats made of any other substance, the The method for producing the pleasant feeding. In this area the AFL-CIO unions are without ex hamster would have died as soon membrane, which is flawless and and produce. Food supplies of this SIU worlqs closely with the Food ception devoted to the cause of type are more uniform in quality, as its air supply was exhausted. contains no holes or pores, is a Program in training waiters and civil rights. They are a cross- But the membrane allowed the closely guarded secret of the Gen keep better and have very little messmen who are taught the basic section of America, and they re waste. oxygen component of the water to eral Electric. elements of food service. Service flect the diversity of the nation. filter in while keeping the wet INVENTORY CONTROL: Field of this kind goes hand In glove But Just as truly they reflect the representatives of the Food Pro part out, and the hamster con with the concept of "to order' American consensus. That con tinued contentedly at his eating. gram assist stewards in checking feeding as in the better shoreside sensus, expressed by AFL-CIO con inventories while in port and in The membrane also filters out restaurants. The relatively small ventions and by conventions of the the waste carbon dioxide exhaled Florida Plans setting up effective controls of sup number of men fed on board ship affiliated national and internation plies while at sea. The port in by mammals. In operation then, it at any one time is the ideal situa al unions, is the basis for the AFL- serves the same purpose as the ventory check-up assures that the tion for individual service of this CIO's determination to abolish all stores, as received, are of the quan gills of a fish, but could be To Construct kind. forms of discrimination. It was brought into many other useful tity and type ordered and that all Since the inception of the pro the basis of our long and vigorous applications as well. voyage needs are covered. The gram, with the membership's sup fight for enactment of the Civil Food Program recommends that Included In these are artificial port and cooperation we have been Rights Act of 1964; and it is the lungs for those suffering from 1st Inland Port while at sea the chief steward is able to get for you better quality basis of our continuing campaign respiritory diseases, a way of pro sues stores at specific times each for the full observance of that law, TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The ini (U.S. good meats), more variety (in viding fresh water and air for tial step will be taken soon towai'd day. Two issues daily are desir frozen vegetables and fruits, three in letter and spirit. submarines, a portable oxygen able. At these daily issues, the "The AFL-CIO constitution in the creation of Florida's first in entree menus) and better service tent that would provide more en land port. steward can keep a running in (individually cooked and served to vites (all workers, without regard riched oxygen than present tents ventory, knowing exactly what is order by trained waiters). Your to race, creed, color or national do, and providing ventilation for The Florida Development Com being withdrawn from the ship's Food Program was also instru origin to share in the full benefits mission hopes that the building of space vehicles. a grain terminal for storage at stores, what these withdrawals are mental in setting up and maintain of union organization.) We are All the proposed uses for the Blountstown, on Florida's north for and how much he has left in ing training for entry ratings in pledged in equal measure to see membrane—and there are others, reserve. Without such a running the Steward Department and will that all workers share fully in too—depend on the solubility of west coast, will lead to the setting inventory, shortages will occur as continue to be active in any future every other aspect of American various gases that pass through up of a major terminal and port the voyage draws to a close; or ^ training for the betterment of this life; for our cause is the brother area In the rapidly-expanding the membrane. Both oxygen and trade region along the Apalachi- a rationing measure, menus will department. hood of workers and the brother carbon dioxide pass rapidly cola River. tend to get monotonous as the An example of this is the Stew hood of man." through the membrane, and they steward tries to use up items in ard Department Recertification are able to pass each other in the In the first phase of the plan, oversupply. Program, which was begun by the membrane if there is more of one a $111,830 loan from the Area Re PREPARATION: With adequate Union in 1962. It features both Quitting Ship? gas on one side and more of the development Administration will stores on board the snip and proper classroom and field work in an second gas on the other. permit the storage, processing and attempt to upgrade the skills Notify Union Though both oxygen and nitro export of increased quantities of necessary for a chief steward's rat A reminder from SIU head gen pass through the membrane locally-produced grains, such as ing. Under the program, all men quarters cautions all Seafarers very quickly, water tends to pass corn, oats, wheat and soybeans. It with class A seniority and who leaving their ships to contact through it slowly. It can turn sea will also allow the import of large possess the necessary seatime quali the hall in ample time to allow water into sweet water because it quantities of feed grains needed fications can register for the course, the Union to dispatch a replace does not allow the minerals that for cattle and other farm stock. which leads to job preference al ment. Failure to give notice be make the ocean salty to pass Under present plans the grain lowances upon graduation. fore paying off may cause a de through at all. produced in the area would be The Food Program is another layed sailing, force the ship to Dr. Robb noted tliat there was barged by water to many shipping SlU benefit and with your contin sail short of the manning re now an excellent chance that a and transfer points, including ued support and cooperation, we quirements and needlessiy make portable gill for use by humans Mobile, for transfer to large ships. arie sure that this Program will the work tougher for yoiir ship under water could be developed Sppstantial savings over present be able to render a seryice to you, mates. wih the membrane. The average overland shipping costs are ex ibe membership. man consumes about three-quar pected. Page Eighteea SEAFARERS LOO Oettfbee Morro Castle Disaster Taught Tragic Lesson It was thirty years ago last month, when the luxury pas senger liner Morro Castle turned from a happy cruise ship to a flaming hulk in the summer-warmed waters off the resort city of Asbury Park,"*' ~~~~~ New Jersey. Holiday crowds »nd are constantly asking for im- lined the beaches of the city provements in now. The safety that night, their faces lit up by provisions written into SIU con the inferno just offshore, and tracts are testaments to the les watched the horrible spectacle. sons learned in the Morro Castle One hundred and twenty-five of tragedy—lessons always known by tlie ship's 549 passengers and sailors but not necessarily by the crew died in the blaze. shipowners and regulatory agen Last month, the SlU-contracted cies. collier Globe Explorer (Maritime The Morro Castle fire brought Overseas) caught fire in the mid- about a thorough Senate investi Atlantic (see story in Sept. 18 gation of safety conditions aboard LOG), and though the blaze was merchant ships, and Senate report serious and quick-spreading one, .184 is still considered in the in none of her crew was either dustry as a turning point in ship killed or injured. Fire onboard safety procedures. Thousands of holiday thrill-seelcers gather on the famous beach of Asbury Parle, N.J., to was the only similarity between The ten big lessons learned from the Morro Castle have been watch an uncontrolled blaze complete the destruction of the doomed pleasure ship Morro the two disasters that occurred Castle on Sept. 8, 1934. Over 125 passengers and crewmembert lost their lives in the dis almost 30 years apart. For the incorporated In the set of mer Globe Explorer was a safe ship chant marine safety regulations. aster which paved the way for major safety reforms and improvements in regulations govern and the Morro Castle was not. They are: ing the construction of merchant marine vessels. It was the Morro Castle disas • Interior bulkheads should be ter, in fact, that brought about of a fire-retardant nature. the reforms, regulations and im • Compartment doors should provements in marine architec be self-closing. ture that seafarers called for then. • Automatic fire alarms should Social Security Paying Out be installed throughout a ship. • Fire doors should be able to be closed by remote control. SlU Lakes • Stairwells should be com $16 Billion in '64 Benefits pletely enclosed and fitted with self-closing doors. WASHINGTON—The social security system will pay out more than $16 billion this year Ferry Being Self-closing smokestop doors in cash benefits to some 20 million elderly or disabled persons and their dependents, as should divide all long passage well as to survivors of covered workers who have died. These facts were revealed recently ways. by Secretary of Health, Edu--*^ — Modernized • Emergency generators should cation and Welfare Anthony session of the International Social director of social security, was an DETROIT — The SIU Great be carried aboard all ships. J. Celebrezze at the opening Security Association triennial meet observer at the meeting for the Lakes district-contracted railroad Crews should be trained in ing In Washington. International Confederation of carferry Ann Arbor No. 7 (Ann fire fighting procedures. The meeting, held In the Inter Free Trade Unions. Delegates Arbor RR) is now undergoing a • What to do in case of fire national Conference Suite of the were guests of the AFL-CIO on a $2.8 million modernization at a should be spelled out clearly to State Dept., drew more than 400 boat trip down the Potomac River Superior, Wisconsin shipyard that both passengers and crew. delegates from 89 countries. Most from Washington to Mt. Vernon. will turn her into the most up-to- • All escape routes should be of them represented branches of date vessel of her kind on the clearly marked. government, the remainder pri Lakes. At the completion of the Some of the other specific fire vate organizations including a rebuilding work the No. 7 will prevention rules now in effect ban number of trade union pension be renamed the MV Viking. Jobs Column the use of wood in vessels over funds In other countries. (Continued from page 10) The announcement of the mod 100 tons; provide for the use of Action In the marketplace offers a method for trade unionists to as The association, which was ulatory agency determine in rate ernization was made by Charles special fire-retardant panels; call founded In 1927 to promote the L. Towle, vice-president for oper for an adequate number of escape sist each other In their campaign cases which is the true low-cost for decent wages and better con technical and administrative de carrier, rails or water. ations of the Detroit, Toledo and ways from the lowest level of the velopment of social security fronton Railroad Company and vessels to the boat deck; provide ditions. Actually,- Walrath's defensive throughout the world, reported cover-up was spurred by a sting the Ann Arbor Railroad Com for draft stops and other means Seafarers and their families are that 112 countries had social se pany. to insure the controlled and ef urged to support a consumer boy ing attack on the ICC made earlier curity programs of one kind or in the conference by John L. Wel The new Viking, when com fective zoning of a ship's ventila cott by trade unionists against another at the start of 1964. pletely refitted from keel to mast tion system. various companies whose products ler, president of SlU-contracted head, will have the latest in safety are produced under non-union Celebrezze In his welcoming Seatrain Lines. Seatrain placed Control of combustible cargoes speech called the U.S. social se devices and will be designed for is also regulated now and proper conditions, or which are "unfair much of the blame for the decline faster, more efficient handling. to labor." (This listing carries the curity system "the mightiest bul of the domestic shipping industry and effective iifeboat drills and wark of all against economic pri She will be repowered with the good maintenance of lifeboats name of the AFL-CIO unions in right where It belongs, with the four diesel-electro engines total volved, and will be amended from vation." It Is being back-stopped, ICC Itself. and their equipment by shipping he said, by a continuing effort to ing 6,000 horsepower. A bow companies is also a must. time to time.) The SIU has for a long time identify and remove the causes of pointed out the favoritism for the thruster wiil give her quicker and The Morro Castle disaster was "Lee" brand tires dependency. more dependable maneuverabil turning point for the American (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum railroads practiced by the ICC at ity, and a "flume" anti-roll sys merchant marine industry. For Sc Plastic Workers) Harlan Cleveland, assistant sec the expense of U.S. domestic water retary of state for international carriers. The favorite railroad tac tem that will cut down consider the first time, safety standards $> if ably on the action of waves. were given due attention and the Eastern Alt Lines organization affairs, said that for tic involves drastic, sometimes be Her decks v/ill be raised, per voice of the seafarers, until-then (Flight Engineers) most Americans "social security is low-cost cuts on railroad rates for settled policy and the problem Is mitting higher loads than were largely ignored, was heard by the if if if shipping a few strategic items. possible before reconversion. Stub powers that be. Today, according H. I. Siegel where do we go from here." This These rate cuts are maintained masts will be installed and her to the Coast Guard we have the "HIS" brand men's clothes generation has in It within its just long enough to force the in two stacks will be removed In safest merchant fleet in the world. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) power to "satisfy the basic mate herently more economical water favor of a single, more efficient The seafarer can. In a great part, jj" 4« 4" rial needs of all our people—for carriers out of business, and then, one. thank his own efforts for it. Sears, Roebuck Company the first time in the history of free of any competition, the rail Retail stores & products mankind," he said, adding a pre roads raise the rate to any degree (Retail Clerks) diction that the war on poverty they wish, often much higher than 4" 4» 3^ will be won. the original rate. Stitzel-Weller Distilleries A feature was the dedication of The SIU has many times, most "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" the issuance of a Social Security recently before the Maritime Ad "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" Commemorative Postal Card by visory Committee, called for Bourbon whiskeys Postmaster-General John A. Gro- changes in the ICC to provide for (Distillery Workers) nouskl on Sept. 6, the 30th anni representation by someone who versary of President Roosevelt's re if if if knows the maritime industry and J. R. Simplot Potato Co. quest to Congress for social its problems. Up until now, the Frozen potato products security legislation, called "equal IOC has traditionally drawn its (Grain Meiers) in import to the original Social membership from the ranks of the 4i 4> 3^ Security Aot." railroad industry, so the Commis Kingsport Press Ray Munts, AFL-CIO assistant sion's strong raiiroad leanings are "World Book,*; "Childcraft" not surprising. (Printing Pressmen) The SIU is leading the fight to (Typographers, Bookbinders) remove the U.S. maritime indus (Machinists, Stereotypers) /N -JUB HOSPITAL?, try from the hole of step-child of i it i CAUStUHAll ' the transportation field, into which Jamestown Sterling Corp. is has been forced, to the place Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. of importance which it must hold Furniture and Bedding for the good ofi the economy and. • . (TJalted^ Furnltpro Workers) „1 the national interqpL ^. «ji , a i \ ^ - S-EAPA S L O C Pave 'IfiBcieca Pensioners Sitting in The Sun The long-upheld tradition of SIU members extending their aid whenever and wherever needed, whether on the oceans or the nation's waterways, was reaffirmed recently by mem bers of the Great Lakes district. Two crewmembers of the David P. Thompson (B&C) spotted a boat that had cap-'*" sized not far from the ship in was handed out by a happy crew, ship's delegate I. K. Coats. The the Saginaw River near Zil- says meeting secretary Steve crew voted a special thanks for WBukee, Mich. James Corbran, Kollna. The crew voted special the consideration and help the Arthour Dabbs and the. 3rd mate thanks to not only the ship's dele captain extended to the crew dur not only rescued the two men that gate during the good and welfare ing the nine months of the trip. had been aboard the boat, but section of a shipboard meeting, but The crew also handed out kudos saved the boat Itself, reports also to the engine, deck and stew to the chief steward and the rest Arnold Heatberly, meeting chair ard department delegates. of the galley gang for a fine job man. 3> 3> during the voyage. Waldo Banfcs, meeting chairman The problem of natives aboard 4 4 4 aboard the Floridian (South At the ship in foreign ports is al The Seafarers aboard the Eagle lantic & Caribbean) reports plenty ways a subject of discussion, this "Voyager (United Maritime) are all of smooth sailing and lots of over time aboard the Del Sol (Delta). smiles lately, since the company time. The outgoing ship's delegate The crew has decided to cooperate placed a television set in the crews The two Seafarers shown above, Julian Mineses and Alex was given a hearty vote of thanks in keeping the native peddlers and lounge, reports Vincent Genco, Anapoi (l-r) are sitting in the sun on the steps of the bun beggars out of the ship's passage meeting secretary. He also reports from the crew and from the new galow they own in Houston, Texas, catching up with the ways and crew's quarters while in that the captain has promised the ship's delegate. Banks reports. activities of the union and the doings of their fellow Sea Buttermilk became the main foreign ports. The natives keep crew a movie projector jf they will getting in the way, according to supply the money farers through reading the LOG. They have nothing but Louis J. Bollinger, meeting chair- to buy films. The praise for the SIU pension which allows them to spend their nian. ^ ^ ^ topic is still un golden years free of financial worries. The two Seafarers In the interest of remain cool, der discussion, said they would not trade their bungalow in Houston for a the engine department delegate on Genco says. the Thetis (Rye Marine) warned 4 4 4 palace anywhere else. the crew to be more careful of the T^e crew of the air-conditioner. It seems that the Alice Brown crew has been using the controls (Bloomfield) is SIU Thanked cause the newspapers do not too much, and they were told that viewing the ar want to lie, but the Department this only helped the machinery to rival of the ship For Sympathy of Commerce's Maritime Ad back into port in ministration gives figures with break down faster, says Joseph O.. Beck To the Editor: Walter Genco Snyder, ship's delegate. the States with We, the family of Anna out explaining the full impact topic of discussion during a recent 4" l" 3« more than ordinary anticipation. Sorezza, wish to express our of the figures released. shipboard meeting of the Raphael Arrangements have been made A $60 arrival pool has been thanks for the very comforting For instance, in the story Semmes (Sea-Land) according to aboard the Wild Ranger (Water set up, the winner of which expression of sympathy offered above, the department did not Gny Walter, meeting chairman. man) to put an end to the traffic will get $50. The other $10 will go by the Seafarers International report that these figures in The crew has asked for more but-' jams at the washing machine, says into the ship's fund reports Charlie cluded the ships in mothballs termilk to be stocked and the chief ship's delegate Arthur Beck. It was Mazure, meeting chairman. and the ships which are no steward said he would go along arranged that the deck department 4 4 4 longer used, or obsolete, and with the request. However, he said, use the washing machine on alter SIU crews appreciate the spe are about to be scrapped. The it would take a short time before nate weeks from the steward and cial efforts of the galley gang total sum of the information, the extra stocks were received and engine departments. Everyone when the feeding aDoard a ship therefore, is misleading and asked the brothers to be patient seemed satisfied, Beck reports. is especially fine. Steward depart causes the reader to believe ments of the following ships have until the order came in. 4 4 4 these ships are all in operation. t i 3. The Penn Cballanger (Penn Navi been awardeii special recognition All letters to the editor for For instance, it is known that Praise for the delegates of the gation) has shown its appreciation by happy crewmembers: Wacosta publication in the SEAFARERS the active fleet of the U.S. is Chilore CVemon Transportation) to the Master of the ship, reports ("Waterman); Globe Progress (Mari LOG must be signed by the only fourth in size in the ranks time Overseas); Hastings (Water writer. Names will be withheld of the world's maritime fleets. man); Warrior (Waterman); Norina ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), Sapt. 14 elected to serve as ship's delegate. upon request. Alfred A. Kushe —Chairman, R. Campball; Stcratary, Everything Is running smoothly with (Marine Traders); Long Lines (Is W. H. Rhona. Ship's delegate re no beefs or disputed OT. Vote of thmian); Beloit Victory (Marine 4 4 4 signed and Brother Glass was elected thanks to the steward and entire Managers); Del Valle (Delta). Union to us and our beloved to serve in his place. No beefs re department for a wonderful job. family member. These kind ported by department delegates. Vote 4 4 4 Marore Crew of thanks to the .steward department STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), Sept. The Steel Designer (Isthmian) words will be remembered with for a job well done. 37—Chairman, C. NIckerton; Secre crew is getting along very smoothly deepest gratitude. Gets Thanks tary, V. Shilapln. All major repairs The Sorezza Family PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Sept. were taken care of. Vote of thanks according to Clarence L. White, To The Editor: I 13—Chairman, M. P. Cox) Secretary, to aU delegates for their cooperation meeting secretary. The crew is I. J. Fray. No beefs reported by de and job well done, and to the stew 4 4 4 I would like to express my partment delegates. Brother Vance ard for his extra time and effort in ' happy with the captain, the captain deepest appreciation and grati "Red" Wells was elected to serve at supplying crew with mail addresses, is happy with the crew, and there and other favors. Some disputed OT Misleading Info tude to my fellow crewmembers in deck and engine department to be is plenty of overtime, he reports. aboard the S. S. Marore for the taken up with patrolman. He also said their were no beefs Hit By Seafarer countless expressions of sym and no logs-during the entire trip. SEATRAIN TEXAS — (Saatrain), To The Editor: pathy and the kindness ex Aug. 37—Chairman, John Cole; Secre 4 4 4 Recently I was going through tended to me upon the death of tary, James Stickney. Brother John Edward Cole, ship's delegate on Cole was elected to serve as ship's a newspaper here in my home my father. delegate. No beefs reported by de the Ocean Vila (Maritime Over town of Camden, N. J. and I was notified by radiogram partment delegates. Motion made that seas) quotes shipmate Charley the Union officials give the member noticed a small story which while at sea, and within three ship a progress report on the con Brown as saying that "the flying read as follows: hours, a large donation for tract negotiations which began June fish are bitting real good in the 15th—what the Union is asking for "The U. S. merchant fleet, the flowers and a message with the ship's qelegate. - Vote . of thanks to and What basic improvements we Pacific and the barbershop girls world's biggest, had a capacity crew's expressions of sympathy former ship's delegate. Brother Dewey have reason to hope for, to justify in Japan are out of this world." Penton. this year's fifty percent, raise in dues. of 31,106,000 dead weight tons had been sent to my mother. The crew backed the Chief Cook to a The rest of the crew seems to (2,240 lbs. each) as of Jan. 1, I can not completely express . THETIS (Admanthos), Sept. S — man disputing the Captain's conten agree, Cole says. Chairman, Ray J. Kelly; Secretary, tion that he is not performing his 1963, according to the U. S. my thanks and appreciation to DenSId L. Core. Brother Joseph Sny duties adequately. Quality of meats 4 4 4 Department of Commerce's the officials and members of der resigned as ship's delegate and and vegetables very poor, and mess- Nite lunch, a topic of discussion Maritime Administration." the SIU for the way they Brother John Dellinger was elected to room services leave much to be da- on all ships, has become the target serve in his place. Delegate requested sired. It Is a perfect example of the treated both my mother and I. to have repairs lirts. ready before of the steward department on the "We both feel that they are the reaching Pearl Harbor." Minor beefs WARM SPRINGS (Columbia), Aug. Choctaw (Waterman). The chief misleading statements which to be taken up with jpatrolman. 30—Chairman, Ray H. Casanova; Sec appear continually in the news most wonderful people we have retary, J. W. Thomas. Everything steward said he will improve the OLOBE PROGRESS (Maritime Over running, smoothly. Some disputed OT lunch and the crew voted to stand papers and other publications ever had the good fortune to seas), Aug. 14—Chairman, Joseph la deck department. Crew requested of this country. The statements know. Tewnsend; Secretary, ' Nicholas Hat- to be quiet in passageways so that behind him In any improvements glmlsios. Brother JIggs Jeffers was the other brothers can sleep. that can be made, reports Robert are not necessarily false, be Bobby D. Mangold D. Smith, meeting chairman. 1 i BBBN Mmtm f V/6/ow; VOL; DcM)'r- 'roAsKyou..^]^^'L4X>I^Lll^thlBiA tABRMAWS 1 SBBfsS IN THe MOMIBS. . . Fac* TwcBtr SEAFARERS LOG Ootobar 19. U64 Walt 'Til Next Year ALCOA RANOIR (AI«M), Se^t. 17 JIAN LA PITTI (Waterman), Sept. Photos Lured —Chairman/ Jack OisMW Sacrafary, A. S—Chairman, T. H. Wright; Sacra- Q. Nail. Dlaeuaalam bald ragatdlnd tary, H. O. RIdgaway. No baafa re kaxa for all man of tha ateward da- ported by department dalegataiL partmant aa ataward departmant Brother 3. nttpatrick waa eleetaa toUata ara lockad In port No boafa to serve at stiip'a delegate. Cram- Seaman To Sea reportod by department dellsatea. membera requeitad to keep pantry clean at night. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over- teat), Sept. 12—Chairman, William ROBIN ORAY (Robin LIna), Sept. M Burke; Secretary, Stanlay F. Schuy —Chairman, Thomat Pay; Sacretary, For First Time ler. t30.(X> In ahlp'a fund. No beefa R. W. Cartar. S16.1T in ahlp'a fund. reported by department delesatea. No beefa reported by department Seafarers wiU give many rea Brother Strickland waa elected to delegates. KlecUon of delegates held. serve at ahlp'a delegate. Crewmem- Brother T. J. Fay waa elected to sons as to why they look to the bert asked to cooperate and bring serve at ship's delegate. A. R. McCraa set for a livelihood in the first coffea cupa back to tha pantry. Also, as deck delegate. A. Oquendo aa whUe the vestel ia in port, to keep engine -delegate and F. Bradley aa place. Some will say to see the ateward delegate. world. Others were looking for a few vv . • • . , M. , .V. .. n s. JOHN P. REISS (Reiss), Sept. IS— good Job. Seafarer David Fair, Chairman, Joseph Arle; Secretary, however began sailing as a result John Turnbull. S14.90 In ship's fun^ of being shown soma photo No beefs reported by department graphs. delegates. J. L. REISS (ReIss), Sept. 20—Chair In 1938, a friend of Fair's re man, Tom Brown; Secretary, Nona. turned from a trip around the t20.60 in ship's fund. No beefs re world with a pocketful of pictures ported by department delegates. he had taken of STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), Sept. the foreign cities It—Chairman, Luclen E. Butts; Sec retary, John Dunn. $3.50 In ship's he visited. Fair fund. Discussion held on equali2iiig the natives out of the house. Patrol OT. decided he had man to check the medicine aboard. to see these cit DEL RIO (Delta), Sept. 13—Chair ies himself. CHATHAM (Waterman), Sept. 27— man, Abner Abrami; Secretary, A. Harry G. Schockney, 16, son of Seafarer Harry E. Schockney, Chairman, T. Llles; Secretary, J. Tolention. Ship'a delegate reported Fair d i s c o v- Drewes. $3.68 in ship's fund. Some that everything ia O.K. Few hours knows what avid baseball fans his father and the other ered, while work disputed OT in deck department. Dis disputed OT in deck department. cussion on maU delivery. Brother A. Abram waa elected to crewmembers aboard the Alcoa Commander are from listen ing his way to serve as ship's delegate. All crew all,ports of the FLOMAR (Calmar), Sept. 20—Chair members requested to close and lock ing to his father's descriptions of life aboard ship. When their doors. Also to keep crew pantry world, that he Fair man, H. Cailckl; Secretary, K. V. and crew lounge clean. the outcome of the pennant race became known, young enjoyed sailing Christensen. $16.00 in ship'a fund— Harry drew this cartoon for the Alcoa Commander's crew, donations accepted in order to keep VENORE (Venore), Sept. 19—Chair- and loved the sea. After 20 years, TV set operating. No beefs and no mart, Frank Rakas; Secretary, W. B. to console the fans of the losing teams and give them a piece he still says, "sailing is a wonder disputed OT were reported. Yarbrough. Brother Frank Rakas waa elected to serve as new ship's dele of good advice—"Don't cry boys—wait until next year." ful life, especially for a single ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), Sept. gate. Everything is running smoothly. The cartoon was sent to the LOS and is being reprinted here man, I'm a bachelor and I like it 24—Chairman, Joseph Crawley; Sec No -beefs reported. Some disputed very much." retary, Arloe Hill. Ship's delegate OT in deck department which wiU to console the fans of all the teams that didn't quite make reported that everything is running be taken care of in Baltimore. Vote When asked about the future. smoothly. No beefs and no disputed of thanks extended to the steward it this year. Fair said that there were "still two OT reported. department. ports that 1 would like to see— DUVAL (Suwannee), Sept. 5—Chair GLOBE PROGRESS (Maritime Over man, R. Callahan; Secretary, J. Gouid- seas), Sept. 20—Chairman, Jiggs Jef- Palestine and Yugoslavia." He man. Discussion held regarding launch fers; Secretary, Nicholas Hatgimlsios. said he was especially interested service in Madras, India. Draws in Ship's delegate reported that every in seeing Palestine and the Ara foreign ports clarified. No beefs were thing is O.K. Crew requested to turn Seafarer's Ready Aid reported by department delegates. in all hooks to the library. Vote of bian area because it was the birth Brotiier T. J. Forsberg was elected to thanks extended to the steward and place of so many great religions. serve as ship's delegate. his department for the .good food and service. Vote of thanks to Cap "There must be something about KENMAR (Calmar), Oct. 4—Chair tain E. Chaki. Palestine that exists nowhere else. man, J. C. Arnold; Secretary, V. Wins Crew's Praises Douglas. One man missed ship in KENT (Corsair), Sept. 14—Chair Otherwise, there would not have Baltimore. Some disputed OT in deck man, Paul L. Hunt; Secretary, Earl Seafarers are well known for being always willing to risk been so much fighting over it, department, otherwise no beefs re Adams. No beefs and no disputed OT ported by department delegates. Vote was reported. Crowmemhors were re their lives to help a shipmate in trouble. Rudy De Boissiere both in the time of the crusade of thanks extended to the ship's quested to cooperate with messman. and since the last war. delegate. is one example of the typical seaman. FLORIDIAN (South Atlantic A Fair is an avid baseball and VOLUSIA (Suwannee), Sept. 2— Carib.), Sept. 29—Chairman, W. Three times this year he has* Chairman, C. E. Mosley; Secretary, Banks; Secretary, A. Aronica. Chief football fan, keeping up with the Wm. A. Walsh. Ship's delegate re Mate Is, working on repair list. Bal been cited by the crew of three learned that Simmons was still in sports news wherever he goes. He ported that everything is O.K. The ance of repairs will he completed Bombay, India, and had not been also likes to spend his off duty steward reminded ail crewmembers in the near future. Brother Guy different ships for his quick to bring linen to galley and not throw Hughes resigned as ship's delegate action in an emergency. expatriated back to the States, he hours curled up with a good sci it on deck. and Brother V. Bryant was elected went out of his way to find the ence book. "Science fiction can to serve in his place. No beefs were The last example of De Bois- COMMANDER ( Marina Carriers), reported. siere's helpfulness was reported reason. He was told that Sim give a person a larger outlook on Sept. 26—Chairman, Edmund AhUaly; mons was at that time in no con his present life," he said. Secretary, Chester Makuch. Ship's DEL NORTE (Delta), Sept. 27— by the crew of the Transindla delegate reported that ail is running Chairman, Edward C. Burton; Sec (iludson). Trained as a paramedic dition to be returned to the States, Fair also has praise for the SIU fairly smooth. AU repairs were taken retary, Bill Kaiser. No major beefs and was assured that Simmons and the progress it has made since care of. No major beefs or disputed reported. Brother Robert Callahan during his seven years in the U.S. OT. $7.95 in ship's fund. Ship's dele was elected to serve as ship's dele Army, De Boissiere who is ship's would be flown back as soon as it was organized in 1938. "The gate is getting off ship and Brother gate. $154.00 in ship's fund and possible. SIU has provided many benefits Julian Dedicanturla was elected to $136.40 in movie fund. All crewmem delegate, used his first aid train serve and will take over at the end bers were asked not to throw any ing when shipmate Maurice Schi- Just a short time later, De Bois for the sailor that make being at of the trip. thing out of portholes. faiii suffered a blood clot in his siere was sailing the Midland sea not only enjoyable, but gives left leg. (Clearwater) when it docked in a man pride in doing his Job well, The crew of the Transindla Alexandria. He returned to the and makes the man realize he will Lakes Music Makers praised De Boissiere's quick action ship one night with his clothes be appreciated for it. and credited him with saving tattered as though every oat in Seafarer Schifani's life. In a ship the city had chewed on him for board meeting, they voted a spe awhile. cial thanks to De Boissiere. But De Boissiere did not reply De Boissiere could not keep all to crews impatient questioning, the credit for himself, though. He about his condition and it wasn't PHote praised the crew and the coopera until weeks later when the ship tion they gave in moving Schifani returned to Alexandria that they to a hospital and thanked them learned of De Boissiere's heroism. for making the trip so smooth. While walking through the streets, mress This is not the first example he had seen a house on fire, and in which De Boissiere stepped in dashing through the flames and to help when needed. In April smoke, emerged with three small this year, he was credited by .the children that had been cut oft by mwiisiGe crew of the Transorient (Hudsoh) the flames. for saving the life of deck en An avid Union man, De Bois gineer C. D. .Simmons, when he siere sails in the steward depart was injured on ship. De Boissiere ment. He is acclaimed by his fel RXiCLSS v/as instrumental in treating the low crewmembers as being a injury and seeing that Simmons small piece of the Waldorf, with was put ashore immediately. his spotless white Jacket and im Later, when De Boissiere peccable serving techniques. 'osroy Don't Delay On Heat Beefs A/e WelcozaedW Now that the cold weather is here. Seafarers are reminded that yotar heating and lodging beefs in the shipyard can be easily handled If Herb Jacobs and Alex Laqarisak (l-r, above), both members the ship's delegate promptly notifies the captain or chief engineer of the SlU's Great Lakes District display the musical instru and shows them the temperature reading at the time. Crewmem hi ments they use to liven up life while on board ship. Jacobs, bers who beef to themselves about the lack of heating but wait who plays the Japanese string bar, and Lagarasik, a guitar, three or four days before making the problem known to a respon teamed up in the Lakes two seasons ago for their own enjoy sible ship's officer are only making things tougher for themselves. The same applies when shipyard workers are busy around living ment and ended up entertaining the passengers on two of the quarters. Make sure you know where and when the work was ships they sailed, first the John T. Hutchinson, and then, this done so that the SIU patrolman has the facts available In order year, the Ishpeming. When not playing for their audiences, make a determination. the two Seafarers display other arts in the galley. Jacobs is a 2d cook and Lagarisak sails as a messman. . . , . ^ ddebw li; 1*M SE AV AltMKiS LOG Vagt 'Twenty-Onv SIU Veteran Recalls Hardships Before Days Of Sea Unions By Fred Harvey, Book H-120 Back In the days when we oldtimers shipped out on sailing ships, life was a rough, endless collection of starvation diets, miserable living conditions, crimps, boarding house masters and slave wages. Those were the days before the sailor had a strong maritime union to make sure he got a fair shake. ^ For those of who have been him and get him a ship. Naturally and as long as^ the microbes sailing since the turn of the the boarding master wasn't doing weren't in sight, it went a long this out of generosity, since he way toward relieving our thirst century and lived through the grabbed the month's salary ad problems. worst of it, the only thing I can vance you got, and whatever you The Palgrave's crew was one of aay is, "Thank the good Lord and had when you landed at his door, the hungriest I ever came across. men like Andy Furuseth, who After spending a couple of The idea of a second helping was started the sailor on a true course weeks enjoying the sights, pleas unheard of, and all a seaman could toward decent treatment on the ures and girls of Hamburg, I de count on was what he had coming ships they sail. cided it was once again time to to him according to law. Today Back in September, 1904 I paid ship out. I still had no intention ships are always adequately pro off the British barque Crown of of taking a job on a steamer, since visioned, and a Seafarer can count Germany in Antwerp. Since I had sailing ships of all nations were to on good chow when he ships out. about $80 in my pocket, I figured be had in Hamburg in those days. Every seaman who signs on for a the best place to keep it was in If they were good enough for voyage today owes a big vote of a seamen's mis Andy Furuseth in his sailing days, thanks to unions like the SIU who sion since we they were good enough for me. made sure that their members get Fred Harvey, an SlU oldtimer, sailed on the barque Palgrave, sailors were apt I went around to the Board of their proper share of everything. pictured above, out of Hamburg around the turn of the cen to be taken for Trade office at the British Con We made San Francisco at the tury. His story of the voyage around the Cape Horn to San everything w e sulate and got fixed up with a beginning of March in fine weath Francisco; and the accounts of the trails and hardships of had while on berth on a ship bound for Frisco. er. As soon as we dropped anchor sailors in these days, emphasizes the advancements sea shore. They gave me a month's advance we were besieged with a huge Back in those unions have made in the condition of the present day sailor. of $17.50, the prevailing rate, army of crimps and boarding mas days Antwerp got about half the money in cash, ters, but they didr't get any tak had many a trap and half in gear which I would ers. Our ship started discharging for the unwary need on the ship. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic George G. Glennon was elected to Harvey cargo a couple of days later at the tory CorrlorO, Sopt. 37—Chairman, serve as ship's delegate. Vote of sailor, and the Remember, this was in the days Howard Street wharf. T. Kalsy: Stcrefary, E .Harris. $3.71 thanks extended to the steward de first boarding house I stopped at long before the seamen had strong In ship's fund. No beefs reported by partment for tha good food. On Saturday night, every mem department delegates. knew every trick in the book. maritime unions to represent DEL CAMPO (Delta), Sept. 37— ber of the crew was given a $5 Chairman, H. Roborts; Secretary, Their favorite gimmick was to them, and the operators furnished TRANSORIENT (Hudson Water None. Brother Mahaffey was elected have the bartender tell you to their ships with very little for the draw, and we all went ashore to ways), Sept. 6—Chairman, Thomas J. to serve as ship's delegate. All drink all you wanted, and pay up enjoy ourselves. However, in the HUburn; Secretary, Pete Triantaflllos. crewmembers requested to keep the men they hired. We had to supply messroom clean, and to return cups tomorrow. The next morning following days the ship began los No beefs reported by department and glasses to messroom. our own "Donkey's Breakfast, delegates. Brother William McDon when the hung-over seaman would blankets, and even eating utensils. ing crewmembers, who also for ald was elected to serve as ship's SANTA EMILLA (Liberty Naylfla- come drooping down the. stairs, he feited the wages they had earned delegate. Motion made that ship's tlon), Sept. 37 — Chairman, eaorga So, I said goodby to my friends delegate see the Chief Engineer about Hair; Secretary, J. M. Byers. Ship's would find a huge collection of up to that point. in Hamburg and signed jon HM hose connection on washing machine. delegate reported that all is run empty bottles on the table. Now, Suggestion made bT several brothers ning smoothly. Most of the repairs four-masted bargue Palgrave for a Back in 1905 a ship's master that all new men get familiar with have been completed. only a whale could have drunk 36-month voyage to the U.S. West could have a man who jumped what was on that table, but you OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over Coast and beyond. She carried a ship arrested, if he could find him. seas), July 31—Chairman, Abe Han- can bet the befuddled seaman was dleman; Secretary, Eugene Boegly. crew of about 37—22 sailors, 6 ap On the other hand, the corrupt No beefs reported by department going to end up paying for it. prentices, and 3 mates. We had a officials of the city government delegates. No ship's fund. After getting my fill of Ant new crew in the foc'sle, but the very often paid little attention to STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Sept. werp, I took the advice of the the protests which were lodged by 37—Chairman, Joe Kramer; Secretary, captain, who was a Scotchman, R. Barsottl. All repairs taken care British Consul and headed for masters of various sailing vessels. of. $43.00 in ship's fund. Some dis seemed to be a gentleman. puted OT in engine department. Hamburg a couple of days later. There wasn't too much sympathy Ship's should be fumigated for rats. In those days a sailor didn't have After an unusually good run to for the captains, since everyone Cape Horn, living on the ordinary DETROIT (Sea-Land), Oct. $ — to lug a briefcase full of papers knew that when it came time to Chairman, B. Matarangolo; Secretary, to satisfy every authority in cre starvation diet that they fed us on put a ship to sea, men were always timnel on port and starboard side of E. R. Rosado. No beefs reported by a "limejuicer" back then, we made to be had when the blood money abip, and to use same in foul department delegates. Everything Is ation when he felt like moving on. weather. running smoothly. He was a free citizen of the world. a fair passage of about 140 days started flowing. When it came time to cross a bor to San Francisco. As far as feed As for me, well, I had enough NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), Sept. ing went, the usual practice was to 17—Chairman, C. KempczynskI; Sec OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Over der, he was never questioned, un of the bloody limejuicer I had seas), Sept. 13—Chairman, O. Samdal; have your next day's provision retary, M. Carlin. Brother Mike Car- Secretary, John W. PIcou. S9.S5 In less he was trying to get into rounded the Horn on. Up until the lln was elected to serve as ship's ship's fund. Some disputed OT In weighed out along with a ration delegate. No beefs reported by de engine department. Suggestion made Russia. time the seamen won good wages partment delegates. to see patrolman about water situa Looking back on my stay in Ant of water at 4 P.M. every afternoon. tion. Vote of thanks extended to and working conditions through ST. LAWRENCE (Destiny Carriers), the steward department and all de werp and Hamburg In 1904, it's Can you imagine living on a the growth of strong maritime un Sept. 30—Chairman, B. C. Browning; partment delegates. easy to see that nothing much has ration that measured out to four ions, the only way we could make Secretary, Gustav V. Thobe. Brother changed for a seaman in a foreign Flllppo Carlino was elected to serve ANTON BRUUN (Alpine), Sept. 37 quarts of water per man? This sure that we were fed enough to as new ship's delegate. Mscussion city. No matter what language he had to cover everything, including held about- use of washing machine. —Chairman, Henry M. Muranka; Sec keep us going along with a living Some disputed OT in engine depart retary, Jack Dolan. Ship's library speaks, it's easy to get along in your coffee, tea, soup, drinking wage was to find a new ship. And ment. was received from SIU. Softball gloves, balls and bats were purchased any sailor town, as long as he has needs and personal washing, when so I left the Palgrave and headed DEL AIRES (Delta), Sept. 4—Chair in Durban for all hands to use. All enough cash to pay the tab. Back ever you could. We had a big man, Robert W. McNay; Secretary, beefs were settled satisfactorily. All for the Barbary Coast to think Ralph Collier. No beefs reported repairs were taken care of. $71 In In those days, though, if a seaman hogshead under the foc'sle head to about the possibiilty of abandon by department delegates. Brother ship's fund. went broke, he knew the boarding store rainwater. We often drank ing those magnificent sailir g ships house master would take care of from this barrel in hot weather. and signing on steamer. Where The Presidential Candidates Stand (Continued from page 8) ROLE OF GOVERNMENT. EDlJCATIOBr. PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"Does govern SENATOR GOLDWATER—"I fear Wash ment subvert our freedom through the ington and centralized government more PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"! now call for SENATOR GOLDWATER—"The govern Social Security system, which guards our than I do Moscow."—Spartanburg, S. C., a goal of higher education for every ment has ho right to educate children. people against destitution when they are Herald, September 16, 1960. American with the desire and the ca The parents, you and I, have that respon too old to work? "I have little interest in streamlining pacity to learn. No one should be kept sibility; The child has no right ,to an "Is freedom lessened by efforts to abate government or in making It more effi from knowledge because there is na education. In most cases, the children pollution in our streams, by efforts tti cient, for I mean to reduce its size . . . room, or no teacher, or no library, or will get along very well without it."— gain knowledge of heart disease or can My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal because he has no money.—Address, Uni Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal, July 8, cer? them. It is not to inaugurate new pro versity of Texas, May 30, 1964. 1962. "Is fredom diminished by banning the grams, but to cancel old ones . . ."— sale of harmful drugs, by providing Conscience of a Conservative. HITMAN RIGHTS- school lunches for our children . . . ? "The government must begin to with "The truth is, far from crushing the draw from a whole series of programs PRESIDENT JOHNSON—"Today, Ameri SENATOR GOLDWATER—"If the Con individual, government at its best lib . . . from social welfare programs,, edu cans of all faces stand side "by side in gress . . . enacts legislation to integrate erates him from the enslaving forces of cation, public power, agriculture, public Berlin and Viet Nam. They died side by department stores and restaurant facili his environment. For as Thomas. Jeffer housing, urban renewal . . ."—Conscience side in Korea. Surely, they can work and ties > . . we will have backed states' son said, 'The. care of human life and of a Conservative eat and travel side by side in their own rights , clear out of the Constitution." happiness is the first and only legitimate country."—State of the Union address, —Column under Goldwater by-line, June object of good government'."—Address, January 8, 1964. 27, 1963. Swarthmore College, June 1964. Page Twenty-Two SI^AFARERS LOO October 16,' 1964 CTeaiule of Membership Meetinss All of the following SlU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers SlU-AGLIWD Meetings Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Regular membership meetings for members of the SIU Atlantic, Mark Joseph Sabatier, born May Melissa Johnson, born July IS, Timothy Troy Elliott, bom Au Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are held regularly once a 29, 1963, to the Charles Sabatier'a, 1964, to the Winston A. Johnson's, gust 23, 1964, to the John W. El month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the Galveston, Texas. Superior, Wise. liott's, Baytown, Texas. listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. 4> 4> 4- 4 4 4 4 4 4 Those who wish to be excused should request permission by tele Sean Patrick Heffeman, bom Leonard Gonzales, born August Joseph Little, born September gram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU May 2, 1964, to the Thomas P. 12, 1964, to the Tommy R. Gon 10, 1964, to the John Little's, Jr, meetings will be: Heifernan's, Buffalo, N.Y. zales', Seattle, Washington. Bayonne, N.J. New York .... November 2 Detroit October 16 4 4 t 4 4 4 4 4 4 Philadelphia ... November 3 Houston November 9 Darlene Fike, bom August 24, Kelly Marie Vial, bora Septem Stephen N. Kelley, born Septem Baltimore November 4 New Orleans .. November 10 1964, to the Larry L. Fike's, San ber 8, 1964, to the Erwin H. Vial's, ber 7, 1964, to the Robert N. Kel- Mobile November 11 Pedro, Calif. Sr., Westwego, La. ley's, Jackson, Ala. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Joseph Benson Lujan, bom James Curley Baudoin, Jr., born Shelly Cooley, born August 13, West Coast SlU-AGLIWD Meetings March 5, 1964, to the Joe E. July 10, 1964, to the James C. 1964, to the Alvin W. Cooley's, SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule through Lujan's, San Francisco, Calif. Baudoin's, Abbeville, La, Leakesville, Miss. August, 1964 for the monthly informational meetings to be held in 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Joan Marie Tamiyn, born June Todd Michael Werda, born Au Jeffrey Allan Runker, born Sep West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wil 21, 1964, to the Robert E. Tamlyn's, gust 20, 1964, to the Norbert S. tember 10, 1964, to the Lewis D. mington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from St. Ignace, Mich. Werda's, Alpena, Mich. Bunker's, St. Ignace, Mich. the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Mark & Michael Collins, born Michella Tamara Gibbons, bom Kristopher Kirwin, born August 1961. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on August 13, 1964, to the Neal T. June 12, 1964, to the John L, Gib 2, 1964, to the Kenneth R. Kir^ Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. Collins', Mobile, Alabama. bons', Jr., B'klyn., N.Y. win's, Oaklyn, N.J. The schedule is as follows; 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Sherlena Weaver, born July 4, Lyndon Dofredo, bom March 16, Kevin Hunger, born June 13, 1964, to the Lloyd L. Weaver's, 1964, to the Domingo A. Dofredo's, 1964, to the Charles W. Hunger's, October 19 October 21 October 23 New Orleans, La. Seattle, Wash. New Orleans, La. November 18 November IS November 20 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Tammy McGee, born April 29, Richard Alan Wilson, bom July Arthur Sails, bom August 22, 4 4 4 4, 1964, to the Russell T. Wilson's, 1964, to the Marion B. Salis', Jack where meetings are held at 2 PM. 1964, to the Jerry J. McGee's, Great Lakes SIU Meetings The next meetings will be: Houston, Texas. Virginia Beach, Va. sonville, Fla. Regular membership meetings Detroit Oct. 19—2 PM 4 4 4 on the Great Lakes are held on Michael Ruth, born July 9, 1964, Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago^ The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported the first and third Mondays of to the William A. Ruth's, Balti Cleveland, Duluth, Frankfort, to the Seafarers Welfare Flan (any apparent delay in payment each month in all ports at 7 PM November 2—7 PM more, Maryland. local time, except at Detroit, 4 4 4 of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary 4 4 4 Wendy Burriss, born June 19, card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates) i 1964, to the William Burriss', Wil Edmond Joseph Marcotte, 48: SIU Inland Boatmen's Union mington, North Carolina. Glenwood Anthony Masterson, Rubin I. MIns, 38: Brother Minu Brother Marcotte died at his home Regular membership meetings 4 4 4 68i The victim of a head injury. died on August 16, 1964, the victim in Chicago, 111., for IBU members are scheduled Joseph Puglisi, born September Brother Master- of a drowning of heart failure each month in various ports. The 3, 1964, to the Joseph Puglisi's, son died in the accident at Pont- on March 22, next meetings will be: chatrain Beach, 1964. He Joined Brooklyn, New York. USPHS Hospital Philadelphia .. Nov. 3—5 PM 4 4 4 in San Francisco, La. A member of the Union in Karen Lee Oreo, bom August 7, the engine de 1962, and sailed Baltimore (licensed and un Cal., on March licensed) Nov. 4—5 PM 1964, to the Anthony P. Oreo's, 19, 1964. A mem partment, he as a deck hand in North Cape May, N.J. joined the Union the Great Lakes Houston Nov. 9—5 PM ber of the engine Norfolk Nov. 5—7 PM 4 4 4 department, h e in 1960. He is Tug and Dredge Wayne Johnson, born August 21, survived by four Region. He is sur N'Orleans .. Nov. 10—5 PM became a mem Mobile Nov. 11—5 PM 1964, to the Ronnie G. Johnson's, ber of the SIU in brothers, a sister, vived by his wife Alpena, Michigan. 1941. He is sur his mother and Mrs. Doris G. Marcotte. Place of 4 4 4 4 4 4 vived by his wife, Mrs. Eva J. Molly Mims, his former wife. Burial burial is not known. RAILWAY MARINI REGION Douglas Hovey, born September Masterson. Burial was in the was in Metairie Cemetery, New Regular membership meetings 6, 1964, to the Douglass P. Hovey's, Golden Gate National Cemetery, Orleans, La. 4 4 4 for Railway Marine Region-IBU Essexville, Mich. San Bruno, Cal. Jack Kelly, 65: Brother Kelly members are scheduled each Virgil R?" Saulter, ^46i Brother was the victim of a drowning accir month in the various ports at 10 Saulter died of drowning when the dent when the AM and 8 PM. The next meetings tugboat Wales, on tugboat Wales, on will be: which he was which he was Jersey City Nov. 9 working, o v e r- working, over Philadelphia Nov. 10 turned on April turned on April Baltimore .. Nov. 11 Gene Stark George B. Rohan (Rowan) 25, 1964. A memr 25, 1964. A mem •Norfolk ... Nov. 12 Your mother has asked that you Betty Heiser Atkins desires that ber of the IBU, ber of the IBU, contact her at Box 736, Baker, he worked as an GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE you or anyone knowing your he worked as a REGION Mont., or telephone 778-2691. whereabouts contact here at 403 deck hand. He is engineer. His wife, Ann Kelly, Regular membership meet 4 4 4 Cedar Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md. survived by h i a ings for Great Lakes Tug and Charles Dahlhouse 4 4 4 wife, Annie Mae survives. Burial Dredge Region IBU memlers are Contact Thelma Treadway at Francis Joseph McGarry Saulter. Burial was in the Grace Memorial Park scheduled each month in the vari 1427 Polymnia St., New Orleans Contact the Welfare Plan Office was in the Galveston Memorial Cemetery, Alto Loma, Texas. ous ports at 7:30 PM. The next about a very important matter. at Union Headquarters, 675 Fourth Park Cemetery, Hitchcock, Texas. 4 4 4 meetings will be: 4 4 4 Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., at yoim ear 4 4 4 Elbert B. Brown, 55: Brother Detroit Nov. 9—2 PM S.S. Warrior Crews liest convenience. Andres Posada Sanchez, 53: Brown died April 8, 1964 while Milwaukee Nov. 9 Will the gangway watch on the Heart failure was fatal to Brother aboard the Col Chicago Nov. 10 4 4 4 Sanchez on April night of July 12, 1963 in Galves- A. Korsak umbia, of heart Buffalo Nov. 11 . ton, Texas, who was on duty when The number of Mrs. Louis Qual- 28, 1964 while he failure. A mem tSault Ste. Marie .. Nov. 12 Jack Strahan broke his ankle tiere has been changed to UN 6- was in Spain. A ber of the stew- Duluth Oct. 16 write Mr. W. Jiles Roberts, 617 member of the 7320. ard department, Lorain Oct. 16 Americana Bldg., Houston 2, deck department (For meeting place, contact Har Texas, at once. 4 4 4 he has been a until he retired member of the old Ruthsatz, 118 Easi Parish. Rudy P. De Boissiere In 1963, he joined 4 4 4 Contact the Welfare Plan Office Union since 1939. Sandusky, Ohio). Raymond Tilley the SIU in 1943. Cleveland Oct. 16 You are asked to contact at Union Headquarters, 675 Fourth Surviving is his Ho is survived by son, Robert Leo Toledo Oct. 16 Thomas Sullivan, P.O. Box 185, Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., at your ear his wife Carmen liest convenience. Brown. Burial Ashtabula Oct. 13 Ludington, Michigan 49431. Fernandez P o s- 4 4 4 was in the Arlington National (For meeting place, contact John 4 4 4 ada. Burial was in the Cillero Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. Mere, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash Odel Powell Income Tax Checks Graveyard, Cillero Vivere, Spain. tabula, Ohio). Mr. George Pitour asks that you Income Tax refund checks are 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 contact him at 27-34 14th Street, being held for the SIU members Clifford T. Wuertc, 68i Brother Victor Shavroff, 63: Brother Long Island City. New York 11102. listed below by Jack Lynch, Wuertz died at his home in New Shavroff was the victim of heart United Industrial Workers 4 4 4 Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Har Orleans of pneu failure on April Regular membership meetings Ponderosa Crewmembers rison Street, San Francisco 5, monia on April 16, 1964 at his for UIW members are scheduled Personal baggage of former Calif.: 13, 1964. A mem home in San each month at 7 PM in various crewmembers is being held in the Vasco Barros, Margarito Borja, ber of the engine Francisco. A ports. The next meetings will be: Baltimore Hall for the men listed Orla S. Bushold, Eugene L. Cas- department until member of the New York ... November 2 below. The men are asked to make tano Jr., Winfred S. Daniel, For he retired in Union since 1942, Baltimore ... Novembeir 4 arrangements to have the baggage tunate Drilon, Donald J. Hampton, 1962, he joined he sailed in the Philadelphia . November 3 picked up as soon as possible. Eigil E. Hjelm, Willard Layton, the Union in deck department. ^Houston November 9 Robert I. Fagan, Frank Ridrigs, Sheffield Nerkitt, Robert W. Oslin, 1956. He is sur Surviving is his Mobile November 11 Anthony W. Stafford, Robert Arthur D. Payton, Jorgen G. Ped- vived by his fiancee, Cynthia New Orleans .. November 10 Doyle, Steve Marconls, Blanton erson. Champ C. Smith, Charles brother Roger Williams. Burial • Meeting! held et Lasor Temple, New port News. Jackson, Gettes Lightfoot, Howard E. Switzer (3), Bernado Tombocon, Wuertz. His place of burial is not was in the Chapel of Chimes Cem t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Flynn. ; Glover Turner, Ding H. Woo. known. etery, Oakland, Calif. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. October K. 1964 SEAFARERS LOG nr* Twenty-Tiireo Out Of The Galley UNION HALLS All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and Keith Terpe. Hq. Hep Phone 724-2843 SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes SEATTLE 2505 Ist Ave. visits whenever possible. The following is the latest Ted BabkowsU. Agent MAin 3-4334 available list of SIU men in the hospital: & Inland Waters TAMPA 312 Harrison St. PRESIDENT Jeff GiUette, Agent 229-2783 USPHS HOSPITAL Julius C. Thompson Guy Whiteburst Paul HaU WILMINGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS Emest C. Vltorl William J. Wooisey EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Frank Boyne, Agent .. TErminal 4-2528 Felix Miller - James Hamilton J. F. Wanderllch Cal Tanner USPHS HOSPITAL Waiter Frederick Harry Oliver VICE PRESIDENTS Great Lakes STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK SECRETARY-TREASURER USPHS HOSPITAL John Allen A. Maher Earl Shepard Llndsey WiUiamz GALVESTON, TEXAS Peter Arthur Donald McCown A1 Tanner Robert Matthews Fred J. Farnen William Bedgood Milburn Hatley ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER E. Bafaloukas Thomas Maher SECRETARY-TREASURER Alfred Bjorsvik Neis Larson Raoul Cabrera Dennis Marcoly Roy Boudreau Mark Conrad. Sr. George Little Henry Callahan James Martin A1 Kerr ALPENA 127 River St. Richard Davis J. Lippencott Edward Calvillo Anstey Minors HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES EL. 4-3610 James Edwards Cecil Morris William Cameron C. Morales BUI HaU Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BUFFALO, NY 735 Washington Gilbert Gonzalez Mack Murray John Chiarra Frank Myatt BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. TL 3-9?: » Hugh Grove Joseph Pitre Angelo Ciano John Natoli Rex Dickey. Agent EAstern 7-4900 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing Ave. John Cunningham Harold Nelson BOSTON 276 State St. Willie Guilott James Reiliy Hamilton Dailey Wilbur Newson So. Chicago, m. SAginaw 1-07. 3 Norman Hadden Felice Ruiacoppo Charles DahUiaus Nick Palantzoglou Ed Riley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 CLEVELAND 1420 West 23th St. Ottis Hail Earnest Russell Benjamin Davis Ray Ruppert DETROIT 1022S W. Jefferson Ave. MAin 1-5^.30 William Harris Alfonso Sandino Henry D^ehl Anthony Seaturro VInewood 3-4741 DULUTH 312 W. 2ncl St. US->HS HOS'-'ITAL George Duffy Ralph Spiteri HEADQUARTERS ....675 4th Ave., Bklyn RAndolph 2-4'10 DETROIT, MICHIGAN E. B. Flowers M. Sharpe BYacinth 9-0600 FRANKFORT, Mich 415 Main St. Ulyss Crider Arlo Otto Francis J. Flvnn James Shiber HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Pedro Gonzalez Sydney Shrimpton MaU Address: P.O. Box 287 ELgin 7-2441 Deaiie Haswell Thoma" Richards Paul Drozak, Agent WAlnut 8-3207 HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av. .lames Kelly .*ohn Sanlay Bernard Cortner B. Skorobogaty JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax Clarence Lenhart -hn Snay Anton Hansen Juan Soto River Rouge 18, Mich. VInewood 3-4741 Christns Houlis J.ames Stogaitis WiUlam Morris, Agent ELgin 3-0987 Barney Majjesle Walter Selzer MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Joseph Mrkia Ellis Jones Fred L. Travis Inland Boatmen's Union Rufino Lara Vernon Williamson Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklln 7-3564 USPHS HOS->!TAL William Logan William Wilson MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. NATIONAL DIRECTOR HOUSTON. TEXAS Thomas Lowe Fred Wrafter Louis Neira, Agent HBknlock 2-1754 Robert Matthews Joseph H. Booker Neis Larson Cristobd Do Jesus, night NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR Eimor E. Camno James E. farshall USPHS HOSPITAL Pat Finnerty Malvin Chandler .lames M. Reilly BAI.'^'MOPE. MARYLAND Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 529-7546 .'.imes F. Cleater Ruben Reyna Clarence Anderson Raymond Myers baker aboard the Hastings NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn BALTIMORE ....1216 E. Baitimoie Si rtork Conrad Ernest Russell Norman Barb Walter Pachulskl HYacinth 9-6600 EAstern 7-4SI«i Roy E. Curtis Earven R. Savoy Pdgar Benson Estai Potts NORFOLK 115 3rd St. BOSTON 276 State ^ Hugh C. Grove M. E. Sehifani Walter J. Ensman Roy R. Rayfield (Waterman) takes a break Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent ..622-1892 Richmond ' Ceraid L. Kersey W. E. Walker W.-rren Rullard Joseph Richsgers PHILADELPHIA ...... 2604 S. 4th St. HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brookly.j Edw. H. Kolcnsusky Gaetano Busciglio .'ames Robinson HVarin'h • from the galley for a stroll John Fay, Acting Agent . DEhvey 6-3818 USPHS HOSPITAL Charles A. CampbeU John Skogiund HOUSTON 5804 Canal .H Theodore Drobins Charles D. Slick SAN FRANCISCO 450 Hsirrison St. ,VEW ORT.EANS. LOUiSIANNA Paul Gonsorchlk, Agent ..DOuglag 2-4401 WAlnul -" Clarence Anthony Rcbert M. McEvoy Michael Duco John M. Stone in the sun on the return to JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE. J: x James C. Armstrong Henry J. Maas, Jr. Fredlof Fondila WiUiam Stormer Frank Drozak, West Coast Rep. Gorman Glare Francis Sturgis SANTURCB PB .. 1319 Fernandez Juncos ELgin 3-()r:i7 John G. Brady .'oyce R. Massey MIAMI 744 W Flaglei St John A. Buttimer Charles C. Mathews Charles Hardesty Andrew Suecb the States from India. Stop 30 Allen ColUns. Jr. Phillip C. Mendoza William A. House Samuel Pate FRanklin 7-3.''» Peter A. Dufour. Jr. Mathios J. Oswald Nolan Hiu-tt Harry Wiiloughby MOBILE 1 South Lawrence S: Fred Fagan. Jr. William H. Padgett Grover C s'addox . Chester B. WUson HEmiock 2-11'l Salvatore Fertltta Alfonso Pavon John O. MUler Chambers Winskey NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson fi.v Audley C. Foster Harry C. Peeler FeUpe Martinez Antoni Wojcichl TP' : Luis G. Franco J.-mes J. Redden WUliam C. Murphy NORFOLK 115 Third St. Evle E. Kinman W. R. Simpson USPHS HOSPITAL Tel. 622-18?- r- Wallace J. LaNasa Thomas W. Sims BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Know Your Rights PHILADELPHIA 260-= S ii • John Harty George Spiliotis DEwey b-PS-l Truman Patriquin TAMPA 312 H.irn.s-jn .'-•1 USPHS HOSPITAL FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakea Tel 229 2-:?3 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the GREAT LAKES TUG & DREDGE REGION T. E. Allen Raymond Miller membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detaUed REGIONAL DIRECTOR Unionists Aid Frank Buck Goorge Moore CPA audit every three months by a rank and flie auditing committee elected Robert Jones Myron A. Garrish Arthur Wroton by the membership. AU Union records are available at SIU headquarters USPHS HOSPITAL in Brooklyn. Dredqa Workers Section SEATTLE, WAHINGTON ASSISTANT DIRECTOR E. A. Ainsworth V. M. Johnston TRUST FUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Harold F. Yon Handicapped H. H. Armfield N. I. Nichols Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of BUFFALO 94 Henrietta Ave L. Bailey J. A. Laigo Arthur MUler, Agent TR 5-1533 A. A. Furst C. E. WaUieh various trust fund agreements. AU these agreements specify that the trustees WASHINGTON—The 20th anni in charge of these funds shall consist equaUy of union and management CHICAGO 2300 N. Kimhell USPHS HOSPITAL representativea and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of Trygve Varden, Agent ALbany 2-li.'>» versary of the first National Em .JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA CLEVELAND 1420 W. 2.3th St. S. E. Walton J. C. Laseter trust funds aro made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. AU ploy the Physically Handicapped L. A. McLaughlin E. L. Costine trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various Tom Gerrity, Agent 621-.34.30 trust funds. DETTROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. USPHS HOSPITAL Lincoln Park. Mip'i Week is being observed in the first WILMINGTON, DELAWARE E. E. Edinger SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected Ernest Demerse, Agent DU 2-7694 week of October, with organized DULUTH 312 W. Second St USPHS HOSPITAL exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to labor playing the same major role SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avaU- Norman Jolicoeur, Agent Roy C. Bru Hubert I. Pousson able in aU Union halU If you feel there has been any violation of your RAndolph 7-6222 it has carried out during two Donald S. Cogging Richard L. Welch shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union SAULT STE. MARIE Milton L. Foley Calvin J. Wilson and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified maU, Address maU to Brimiey. Mich decades of active participation. CarroU Harper Richard O. Zaragoza return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Wayne Weston, Agent BHimley 14-r! .3 The observance was the out Bemie R. Hylton TOLEDO 423 CentrrI St USPHS HOSPITAL Eari Shepard. Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board CH 2-7751 growth of a congressional resolu FORT WORTH. TEXAS 17 Battery Place. Suite 1930, New York 4. N.V. Benjamin Deibler George McKnew Tug Firemen, Linemen, tion calling on the President to Abe Gordon WilUe Young Full copies of contracts as referred to are avaUable to you at all times, Oilers & Watchmen's Section issue a suitable proclamation each Thomas Lehay Max Olson cither by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Anpeals Board. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR year naming the first week in Oc SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR Tom Burns STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK CONTRACTS. Copies of ail SIU contracts are avaUable In aU SIU haUs. ASHTABULA, 0 1G44 W. Third St tober as National Employ the Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and John Mero, Agent WOodman 4-8.3.''2 Physically Handicapped Week and Alberto Gutierrez WUliam Kenny live- aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as weU as your obUgations, BUFFALO 18 Portl.nnd St. Edwin Harriman such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, Tom Burns, Agent TA 3-70r5 urging labor and management to USPHS HOSPITAL at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, CHICAGO 9383 Ewing, S. Chicapo participate in its observance. SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port Robert Affleck, Agent . ESsex .3.n.=-0 WUliam Lovett agent. v CLEVELAND 1420 W. 2S;h St. The former AFL and the former USPHS HOSPITAL W. Heams, Pro-Tem Agent MA MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionaUy CIO joined wholeheartedly in the James McGee refrained from publishing any article serving the poUtical purposes of any DETROIT-TOLEDO 12948 Edison .St Max Tobin, Agent Southgate, Mich. effort to make the first week the PINE CREST HAVEN NURSING HOME individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub A Venue 4-0071 COVINGTON, LOUISIANA lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its coUective membership. success it was. The first beneficial Frank Martin This established policy has been reaffirmed by membersbip action at the DULUTH Box No 66 South Range. W a. effect was a sharp jump in the V.A. HOSPITAL September. 1960, meetings In all constitutional ports. The responsibility for NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS LOG poUcy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Ray Thomson, Agent .. EXport 8-3n?4 number of job placements of Maurice Roberts Board of the Union. The Executive Board' may delegate, from among Its LORAIN, 0 118 E. Parish St. workers who had suffered physical U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. Sandusky. Ohii WASHINGTON, D.C. Harold Ruthsatz, Agent MAin 6-4.373 handicaps. William Thomson PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to he paid to anyone in any MILWAUKEE ... 2722 A. So. Shore Or. official capacity In the SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for Joseph Miller, Agent . SHerman 4-fii'''.3 same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money for any SAULT STE. MARIE . . .1086 MrpJe St. reason unless be is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to Wm. J. Lackey, Agent . MEIrcse 2-8S'7 require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or If a Rivers Section member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but ST. LOUIS, MO 805 Del M i feels that be should not have been required to make such payment, this L. J. Colvis, Agent CE 1-1434 should immediately be reported to headquarters. PORT ARTHUR. Tex 1348 7lh St , Arthur Bendheim, Agent CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes RAILWAY MARINE REGION every six months In the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Its constitu HEADQUARTERS ... 99 Montgomery Si. tion. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members Jersey City 2, NJ HEnderson 3-nt04 should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves REGIONAL DIRECTOR with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer Is attempting G. P. McGinty to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any metbods such ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the E. B. Pulver R. H. Avery member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. BALTIMORE....1216 E. BaltiiiioK EAstpp- RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension NORFOLK 115 Third St. EVERY benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, 622-18923 including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem PHILADELPHIA 2604 S -. bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in DEwp- I ail rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oidtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membersliip United Industrial Workers has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of aUowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. E.4stern 7-4!l >1 MOHTHS EQUAL RIGHTS. Ail Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In employment BOSTON 276 Stat- .^t. and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth In the SIU Richmond 2-6" t constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with tho HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave.. Eron!: '-:, If any SIU ship has no employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because HYacinth 9 "1 of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels HOUSTON 5804 Cr.n-! St. library or needs a new that he Is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify WAiniit C • •> headquarters. JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl S ' Z ELgin : •» supply of books, contact SEAFARERS FOLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights MIAMI 744 W FlaglPf St. SIU hall. of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which any will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. FRanklin 7-" ? To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was MOBILE 1 S. Lawrcn— St. established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the HEmiock 2 • • 1 funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for NEW ORLEANS 630 Jacks-n . the benefit of the membership and the Union. Phone E.7,- • i YOUR if at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the abov* rights have been NORFOLK 115 Thir-" • 1. violated, or that ha has been denied his constitutional right of access to Phone <22-' : Union records or Information, he should Immediattiy notify SiU President PHILADELPHIA 2 04 S 4::i .-.1. Paul Hail at haadquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. DEwey (•: " 3 SIU SHIP'S LIBRARY TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Phone 229-2781 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORQAN OFTHE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO FOR Seafarers who retire, either on the standard pension at age 65 or at an earlier age on the disability pension, receive $150 a month. This, of course, is in addition to SIU their Social Security benefits. Perhaps even more important today is the additional benefit pensioned Seafarers receive in the form of un limited medical expenses. And at the same time, the PENSIONERS wives and dependents of pensioned Seafarers continue to be covered under the dependent benefit schedule just as they'were while the Seafarer was still working. The unlimited medical expense feature of the Sea farers Pension Plan is most important because of the continuing increases in medical expenses over the past years. Statistics compiled by the American Hospital Association show that the cost of hospital care has risen to almost four times what it was in 1946 and is continuing to rise. Retired Seafarer O. C. (name withheld), who went on, pension in 1961 recently required surgery to save hit life. The unlimited medical expense feature of the Sea farers Plan paid the $1,200 bill in full. With the unlimited medical expenses available to him, the pensioned Seafarer can use his pension money for living expenses, without worrying about being un able to pay for medical treatment and care. Retired Seafarer C. B., on SIU pension since 1956 re quires treatment for a heart condition at costs averaging $30 monthly for medicine and $15 monthly for treatment—every month. The SIU Flan takes care of the bills. The unlimited medical expense benefit is available to the pensioned Seafarer at a time when medical ex penses can be expected to occur more frequently and to be more costly. Statistics show that people over 65 use three times as much hospital care as people under 65 and spend over twice as much for medical care as the rest of the population. Retired Seafarer F. M., who went on pension in 1958, became unable to take care of himself and had to enter a nursing home nine months ago. The SIU Pension Plan pays the $250 monthly costs. UNLIMITED MEDICAL CARE iSeAFARERS^LOG 1964 ELECTION SUPPLEMENT SIU ' ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES & INLAND WATERS DISTRICT ELECTION Election Procedures Qualified Candidates with photos and records submitted by candidates Sections of SIU Constitution Sample Ballot Election Procedures: 5IU Executive Board Minutes, Sept. 9, 1964 (The following executive board minutes were acted on and through the Seafarers Log, all details of the election violations in this manner should be emphasized. If situa and approved by the membership at port meetings held have already been communicated. Insofar as our Consti tions exist which call for corrective action, that action on October 9, 1964.) tutional requirements regarding elections are concerned, ought to be taken. It can't be taken if the responsible not only are copies of the Constitution available at all parties under the Constitution are not made aware of the ports, but also, the LOG prints the Constitution verbatim facts. The meeting was called to order at 3:00 P.M. by Paul every six months. , Every member, therefore, should be 3. Obviously, nothing in these recommendations is to Hall, President. aware of these requirements. be deemed to deprive any candidate or member of his con PRESENT: Paul Hall, President; Robert A. Matthews, B. 1. The policy of the Union has been, and is, equal stitutional right to observe the conduct of the election, the Vice-President; Earl Shepard, Vice-President; A1 Kerr, electioneering limits and facilities for all candidates. As tallying of bailors, and so on, provided he maintains proper Secretary-Treasurer; Lindsey Wiliams, Vice-President. usual, the Seafarers Log will contain an election supple decorum. ABSENT: Carl Tanner, Executive "Vice-President; A1 ment, which includes the biographical sketches of each 4. In accordance with established policy, the Union, its officers, the Log, and, indeed, the entire membership, Tanner, Vice-President. candidate and his photo, together with a sample ballot with voting instructions. The usual distribution pattern should continue to encourage the utmost interest in the ALSO PRESENT: Herb Brand, Director of Organizing & will be followed. That is, it is sent to all contracted ves election. The Executive Board urges the largest possible Publications; Howard Schulman, SIU General Counsel. sels, is made available in substantial quantities, in all vote, and encourages the use of proper electioneering to The President announced that a quorum was present. Union halls, and is otherwise distributed. Candidates and further stimulate interest in the exercise of this important He then stated that the purpose of the meeting was to members will, therefore, have available to them those right. discuss the 1964 general election, review the steps taken materials for electioneering, or any other purpose. In 0. The Secretary-Treasurer states that, in compliance so far, and to determine whether the Executive Board addition to that, the Executive Board recommends the with law he has prepared a membership list, to be avail wished to recommend any additional steps which would, printing of this election supplement in enough copies so able for inspection by any and all candidates. Again in in Its collective judgment, be desirable to comply not that there will be available to each candidate, at accordance with law, the list is, and will be kept, available merely with the letter, but also, with the intent, of the his request, 100 copies thereof, to be used for such at Headquarters. While this is a valuable record, we rec Constitution, the Secretary-Treasurer "additions to the purposes as the candidate may choose. It is felt that ommend that the Secretary-Treasurer not be required to Voting Procedures" as has been concurred in by the 100 copies for each candidate is reasonable. There sit with whoever is inspecting the list, but that arrange membership, applicable law, and this Union's policy of must be obviously be some limit to the Union's ex ments be made for a rank and file committee of three (3) full and fair treatment for all candidates. penditures in this regard. To insure equal treatment for to be elected for that purpose. We further recommend The President next stated that the General Counsel was each candidate, copies of this special material shall be that a proper receipt be obtained from the inspecting present at his request. He asked the General Counsel If made available in each Union hall. The Port Agent shall candidate. Finally, since many members object to tiie he was aware of the election steps taken to date. The deliver the amount requested (up to 100) to each candidate, Union releasing their names and addresses, and since it General Counsel replied in the affirmative, that he and obtain a receipt therefor, keep a record of the same, and has been a long term policy of the Union to respect these other members of his staff had checked the Credentials notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr immediately. It feelings on the part of the membership, we recommend Committee report and supporting records, and the election will be the Secretary-Treasurer's duty to keep a central that, while each candidate may have his inspection, no material prepared and distributed. The General Counsel tally, and to replenish stocks of this material when, as, candidate shall be allowed to make copies of the list or stated that, in his opinion, the Union was in strict compli and if needed. any part thereof. ance with the Constitution and applicable law, including, 2. To insure good order and to further preserve the sec D. Without regard to the Executive Board's power in particular, the Landrum-Griffin Act, and that he now so recy of the ballot, electioneering must not take place under Article VII of the Constitution, the Executive Board formally advised the Executive Board. He stated further within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, the specifically requests that the matters herein be brourht that, so far as law was concerned, one last affirmative step Union continues to insist on good order and decorum, to the attention of the membership and acted upon by remained to be taken, that is, the mailing of the 15 day which must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has them, by special meetings held in all ports, subject to tue notice required by law, that the Union was aware of this, been solicited within the prohibited area is required to requirements of the Constitution, commencing on Friday, and was, in fact, in the process of preparing the same make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall October 9, 1964, at 9:00 A.M. It is also recommended that for mailing. He pointed out that this would have to be record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings these minutes if approved as aforesaid, be included in the completed on or prior to October 15, 1964. The Secretary- and recommendations thereon. In addition, the member Seafarers Log election supplement of 1964, be included Treasurer stated that this would be accomplished. is required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr, at in the notice, referred to above, to be mailed to t!-.e The President then called for an open general discussion Headquarters, within 24 hours of the occurrence by reg membership in accordance with law, and, in addition, be dealing with the purpose of the meeting, after which, the istered mail, return i-eceipt requested, of the facts, which prominently posted in the Union halls for the duration following was decided upon: notification must be signed by the complainant, together of the balloting. with his book number. The Secretary-Treasurer was unanimously directed to RE: UNION GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1964 In that connection, the Executive Board recommends take all steps necessary to effectuate the foregoing. The Executive Board wishes to make the following that the membership also adopt the rule that, in any case ADJOURNMENT: Paul Hall, Chairman, then asked those report and recommendations to the membership, for the any member has a complaint that any of the election and assembled if there was any further business to come before purpose of keeping the membership informed, effectuating balloting procedures of this Union have been violated, the the Board. There being no further business to be trans the Union's policy of completely equal and fair treatment same procedure as above set forth, shall be followed. acted, it was then moved by Lindsey Williams and sec to all candidates, and rounding out the Union's compliance While the members have already been notified, through onded by Earl Shepard that this Board meeting stand with law, including the Landrum-Griffin Act. the Log, as to notifications to the President in case of a adjourned. Carried by a unanimous vote of the Board. A. All steps required up to now to comply with claimed violation of any rights, it is recommended that Meeting was then adjourned at 5:20 P.M. Landrum-Griffin have been taken. There remains one the rule set forth herein be adopted with reference to the Fraternally submitted. step, the mailing of notices to the members, and recom balloting and election procedures in this election, since By: mend this step be taken, in accordance with law, on or the Secretary-Treasurer, under the Constitution, is charged AL KERR, Secretary-Treasurer prior to October 15, 1964. It need hardly be noted, of with specific administrative duties in connection with course, that, both at regular meetings of the membership, elections and referendums. The member's duty to report 120 Supplement—^Pase Two OetPbec 10^ 19.04 Candidates For SiU Elective Posts For: President For: Vice-President in Charge of the (Vote For One) Atlantic Coast JOHN COLE—Book No. €-8— No. 1 On Ballot (Vote For One) Defeated Power Elite's Kangeroo Court expulsion and free speech suppression attempts. Holds members' Interests should be leaders' EARL (Bull) SHEPARD—Book No. S-2—No. 7 On Ballot Interests; yet, typically, Executive Board capriciously cancelled New Orleans vote for essential shipping-board; showcasing sculpture in One of SIU's original members. Active in P&O strike and other stead. Similarly, heaviest-bled unionists, hopelessly trailing indus early Union actions. Directed field work in Isthmian organizing drive. try. Conditionwise, were administratively denied overdue living Participated in Great Lakes organizing. Directed N.Y. waterfront cost raise while supporting longshore strikers twelve dollars weekly activities in 1946 general strike. Appointed New Orleans port agent boost. Resent Union levying directly from earnings to assume fol in 1947. Elected New Orleans agent for 1948, 1949, 1950. Elected lowing management functions: physical examinations, legislative assistant secretary-treasurer for 1951. Appointed Baltimore agent in lobbying, safety, lifeboat school, belly-robbing plan. Opposes: ruin 1951. Elected Baltimore agent in every election since 1952, and ous waterfront wars as organizing excuse; pampering shoestring elected vice-president in charge of Atlantic Coast in 1960. operators at cost of family allotments; skeletonizing manning scales to maritlme's lowest. For: Vice-President in Charge of the PAUL HALL—Book No. H-1— No. 2 On Ballot Gulf Coast Original member of SIU. Hold all strike clearances. Elected (Vote For One) secretary-treasurer 1948. Participated in all SIU organizing cam paigns and major beefs since earliest days. Served on all SIU negotiating committees since 1948. Helped initiate Welfare, Vaca JAMES L. TUCKER—Book No. T-22— No. 8 On Ballot tion and Pension Plans. Participated in drive for SIU seniority hiring system to save Union hiring hall. Now serving as SIU president. Transferred from the old AFL Seaman's Union in 1938 in Port of Baltimore when the SIU was formed. Have sailed regularly since then in all ratings in the deck department. Have been both deck WILLIAM JOHN SMITH—Book No. 8-60-No. 3 On Ballot and ship's delegate on many ships. Participated in various Union beefs and have a clear strike record. Have served as patrolman Started sailing in 1944 as member of the SIU Pacific District. and agent appointed in Baltimore, Charleston and Mobile. At Transferred to Atlantic and Gulf District in April, 1947. Was picket present am employed on the SS DEL NORTE as AB maintainence. captain in Philadelphia during 1948 General Strike. Was doorman in Philadelphia for short while in 1947. Active during Isthmian strike in 1947. Have sailed many newly organized ships as deck LINDSEY WILLIAMS—Book No. W-l-No. 9 On Ballot and ship's delegate. Assisted in negotiating working rules for vacu- vator machines aboard the SS Producer in 1958. Am a member of the deck department sailing as boatswain, deck maintenance or able- Joined SIU in January, 1942, in New Orleans. Sailed in the deck bodied seaman. Am at present sailing as AB aboard SS Portmar. department during the war in practically every war zone. Served as Gulf area organizer during Union drive to organize Isthmian. Director of organization for Cities Service drive and was responsible for bringing many other new companies under contact. Elected For: Executive Vice-President New Orleans port agent in each election from 1950 to 1960, when (Vote For One) elected vice-president in charge of Gulf Coast. CAL TANNER—Book No. T-1— No. 4 On Ballot For: Vice-President in Charge of the Charter member of the SIU since the beginning. Sailed actively Lakes and Inland Waters during the war, seeing service in most combat zones. Active in Isthmian organizing drive both on ship and ashore as organizer. (Vote For One) Elected Mobile agent from 1947 to 1960. Participated in various A&G District organizing drives of past years. Active in all SIU beefs and holds clearances for all strikes the Union has engaged in AL TANNER—Book No, T-I2— No. 10 On Ballot since it was first organized. Now serving as executive vice-presi dent, to which I was elected in 1960. Sailed steward department ratings on SIU ships for many years. Became SIU member December, 1951. Came off ship to manage Baltimore Port O'Call when new hall opened. Participated in Balti more HIWD and MAWD organizing including successful drive for For: Secretary-Treasurer harbor tugs. Active in aid to Westinghouse strikers. Also in N.Y. Marine Allied Workers organizing and as Welfare Services repre (Vote For One) sentative. Now coordinator of Great Lakes organizing for the Maritime Trades Dept. Elected vice-president In charge of Lakes and Inland Waters in 1960. AL KERR—Book No. K-7— No. 5 On Ballot Joined the SIU on November 6, 1943, in Port of New York. Sailed For: Headquarters Representative in all ratings in the deck department. Holds a clear record on all Union beefs and picketing actions since he joined the SIU. Has served the Union in many official capacities since 1945,' including (Vote For Three) organizer, dispatcher, partolman, assistant administrator of the SIU Welfare and Vacation Plans, as well as secretary-treasurer of all the Union's corporations. At present serves as secretary-treasurer of Un WILLIAM (Bill) HALL- -Book No. H.272— ion and its corporations. No. 11 On Ballot Joined SIU, A&G District, in 1944, in the Port of New York. Served actively in many of the Union's major strikes and beefs, in For: Vice-President in Charge of Contracts cluding the 1946 general strike, the 1947 Isthmian strike, the Wall Street strike and the Canadian beef. Was elected deck delegate and ship's delegate on most of the ships I sailed. Holds clearances for and Contract Enforcement all Union actions. Elected assistant secretary-treasurer for 1953-54. (Vote For One) Re-elected 1955-'56, 1957-'58. Serving as headquarters representa tive since 1960. ROBERT A. MATTHEWS- -Book No. M I— i THOMAS (Curley) LILES, JR.—Book No. L-230— No. 6 On Ballot No. 12 On Ballot Joined SIU when it was chartered. Served as patrolman and port agent in Mobile and later as agent in Jacksonville and San F/an- cisco. Assigned in 1946 to NY as hq representative. Served on every Union negotiating committee from 1946 to 1954. Elected assistant secretary-tfeasurer 1948, 1949 and 1950; hq representative Joined SIU in the Port of New Orleans in 1950. Previously had for 1951-'52. Assistant secretary-treasurer 1953-'54, 1955-'56, 1957- served in U.S. Navy from 1942-1945. Sails in the steward department '58. Houston agent from 1958 to 1962, when assumed post of vice- and has steward's and cook's ratings. Participated in 1946 general president in charge of contracts and contract enforcement. Partici strike and the Isthmian strike, and has strike cleairance for both. pated in all SIU strikes and beefs. Continuad on pagt 1 IMIM IC tf(N SifVleniiMii—Paare Tknl» EDWARD (Eddl*) MOONEY—Book No. M-T— LUIGI lOVINO^—Book No. Ml— No. 21 On BaUot No. 18 On IMIol Joined SIU in 1045. Senred at ihip'i delegate or ateward delegate First started sailing with the SIU in 1946, and has shipped in both on majority of shlpe. Member of Food and'Housing Committee, for steward and deck departments since that time. Took part in 1946 1946 general strike. Assisted during Canadian beef, and r^resented general strike, the Wall Street strike and was active in the Isthmian Union in various beefs in Puerto Rico. Participated in Wall Street organizing campaign. Also helped organize Government workers. strike. Appointed New York patrolman in 1952. Elected NY joint On many occasions during the past fourteen years, has taken role in patrolman 1953-'54. Served as headquarters representative since shipboard responsibility by serving as a delegate. Now serving as 1955. Played major role in Robin Line beef. Joint Patrolman in New York. FREDDIE STEWART—Book No. S-B—No. 14 On Ballot PASQUALE (Pat) MARINELLI- -Book No. M-462— No. 22 On Ballot Was volunteer organizer for SIU when it was founded. Partici pated in all major strikes Including bonus strike, Isthmian, 1946 general strike and other actions. Was leader of direct action to Have been sailing in the SIU since 1950 when I joined in the secure milk, good provisions and decent shipboard conditions for Port of New York. Sailed in the deck department as AB and all Seafarers. Served as steward patrolman in N.Y. in 1947 and carpenter. Have active Union record and have participated in all joint patrolman in 1948 and 1949. Elected steward or joint patrolman major Union beefs and organizing activities since joining the Union. for all years, 1950-1960, and as headquarters representative in 1960. Took part in many successful organizing campaigns in Puerto Rico. Assisted in drawing up many of the Union's past contracts. Now serving as patrolman in the Port of New York. FRANK MONGELLI—Book No. M-1111- For: New York Agent No. 23 On Ballot (Vote For One) Started sailing in 1938 in the deck department. Came ashore to work for SIU in 1952. Has served in numerous capacities including building superintendent for five years. In charge of SIU training JOSEPH (Joe DI George) DI GIORGIO— school activities including responsibility for lifeboat class, entry Book No. D-2—^No. 15 On Ballot training and upgrading. Active in all SIU beefs since coming ashore including longshore, American Coal, Bull Line strike, Robin Line Joined the Atlantic & Gulf District in 1951 in New Orleans. Served and SS Cleopatra. Has a clear record on all Union beefs. Elected actively in many of the Union's major beefs and strikes in the years New York joint patrolman in 1960. since then, including the 1946 general strike, the Isthmian strike, the Wall Street beef and numerous others. Elected Baltimore patrol man 1955-1956. Served on numerous rank and file committees and E. B. (Mac) McAULEY—Book No. M-20—No. 24 On Ballot elected ship's delegate and steward delegate on many occasions. Was elected New York joint patrolman 1958-60 and reiected in 1960. Have been member of the SIU since 1943. Sailed all zones during Now serving as acting port agent. World War II in both steward and engine departments. Was an official SIU observer during 1946 Isthmian election. Was acting Savannah agent in 1946. Have been ship's delegate and engine dele gate on numerous ships. Was patrolman-dispatcher in Savannah For: New York Joint Patrolman during 1952-53. Served as headquarters organizer in 1953-54. New York Dispatcher in 1954. New York Joint patrolman 1955-56. Elected (Vote For Ten) Savannah Agent 1957-58. Part of 1958-61 worked on headquarters staff. Was West Coast representative in 1962-64. THEODORE (Ted) BABKOWSKI—Book No. B-1— No. 16 On Ballot GEORGE McCARTNEY- -Book No. M-948— No. 25 On Ballot Joined SIU in 1941 and sailed in all combat zones during World Started sailing in 1949. Have sailed in all departments at one time War II. Was volunteer organizer in Isthmian drive and various or another aboard freighters, tankers and passenger vessels. Have tanker drives. Served on NY Isthmian strike committee. Active in been departmental or ship's delegate aboard most ships on which 1946 strike. Coos Bay and shipyard beefs. Served on Baltimore com I sailed. Came ashore in 1961 to serve as patrolman in New York mittee aiding shipyard and telephone workers. Elected engine or and Philadelphia. Served as agent in the Port of Wilmington, Cali joint patrolman at each election since 1949. Currently Seattle agent. fornia, for 2 years. Was reassigned to headquarters in January of this year where I am presently serving as patrolman. If elected, will rep resent the membership to the best of my ability and will at all times ANGUS (Red) CAMPBELI^Book No. C-2I7— abide by the Constitution and policies of this Union. No. 17 On Ballot I have been a member of the Union since 1943, sailing in the FRED G. OESTMAN—Book No. 0-41—No. 26 On Ballot deck department. I served as a voluntary organizer in the successful Isthmian organizing campaign and the Cities Service organizing campaign. I have been active in practically all Union strikes and have strike clearance in all major beefs. On most ships that I have sailed I have served as department and ship's delegate. Throughout the years I have been elected and served in various constitutional I have been an active member of the Union, In good standing, committees such as Union financial committee, balloting commit since 1946. My book was retired from 1954 to 1956, during which tee. in 1960-63 I served as joint patrolman in the Port of New time I was inducted into the Army for two years. I returned to sail York. Since 1963 I have been serving as acting agent in San Juan, ing upon my discharge. I am 36 years old. My organizational record Puerto Rico. shall show I have taken part in several actions over the years. WARREN H. CASSIDY—Book No. €-724— GEORGE (Frenchy) RUF—Book No. R-1- No. 18 On Ballot No. 27 On Ballot I am presently an active member of the Union and have been since 1947. Presently I sail in the Stewards Department. I have been taking part in all major beefs of this Union since 1947, the Have been a member of the Union in good standing for over 20 only exception being when I was at sea. My home town is Boston, years. Have all strike clearances. Worked as a Union official in but for the past several years I have made Brooklyn my home, and various .jobs since 1946. Have sailed on all types of SIU ships. New York is my "home" shipping port. I would appreciate any and Helped on several organizing jobs, both as ship and shoreside or all support from the membership, and if elected will do my best to ganizer. serve the members in the best way I can. CHARLES SCOFIELD—Book No. S-186—No. 28 on Ballot JOHN FAY—Book No. F.363- No. 19 On Ballot I sailed in both the steward and deck departments before coming Joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1942. Sailed all during ashore in 1957. Since then have been employed by the Seafarers World War II and Korean War. Sailed in the engine department International Union in various capacities. I served as dispatcher, and served on many ships as engine department and ship's dele patrolman and welfare representative. I have been active in various gate. Appointed as joint patrolman for the Port of New York in beefs and organizing drives such as the American coal beef. Bull October 1959. Elected by the membership as joint patrolman port beef, Robin Line and most recently the Puerto Rican organizing of New York 1961-1964. drive. Have served as Boston Port Agent, and New York patrolman. CHARLES STAMBUL—Book No. S-578—No. 29 On Ballot VINCENT GENCO—Book No. G-79— No. 20 On Ballot I have been an SIU book member since March, 1945. I retired my book in December, 1945, and reactivated it again in August 1949. I believe that I can do a good job for the Union and its member Since then I have had delegates' jobs almost continuously and I also ship. As a member for many years, I have participated in many served as . committeeman during the coal beef in the Port of Balti Union beefs which include organizing Isthmian, Wall Street beef, more and various other beefs when on the beach. At the present longshoremen's dispute and others. I was on the financial committee time, I am a crewmember and AB in deck department on the tanker many times and was also on the ballotting committee. I was the SS Eagle Voyager. I joined the ship on June 26, 1964, in the engine room delegate and ship's delegate on many ships. Port of New York. Contlnuvd en page 4 Supplement—Face Four Oet LORENCE E. TAYLOR—Book No. T-79—No. 30 on Ballot EDWARD KRESZ—Book No. K-315—No. 88 On BaUot I became a member of the SIU in 1945 though I have more than 28 years seatime. I have always sailed in the Engine room. My strike clearance record is perfect, have supported the Union in all Since receiving my book in 1953, I believe I've done my utmost to its actions. I have been active in organizing particularly Dry Trans uphold the Union and our Constitution. Serving mostly as deck and and Seatrader Co., I made ph.vsical contributions to the Wall Street, ship's delegate, I also believe I'm capable of upholding any Union Wage Stabilization Board and Isthmian Beefs. If elected, I promise activities ashore as well as at sea. Hoping you, the membership, will to serve the membership loyally and conscientiously. give me the chance to prove this. KEITH TERPE—Book No. T-3- No. 31 On Ballot For; Baltimore Agent (Vote For One) Sailed throughout World War 11. Was headquarters organizer during 1949-51, active in winning successful Cities Service drive. Also served as acting port agent in Lake Charles during REXFORD (Rex) DICKEY—Book No. D-6— 1950-51. Helped organize several other non-union companies. Was No. 39 On Bullol New York patrolman, contract negotiator and headquarters repre sentative 1951-1952. Elected N.Y. joint patrolman 1955-56, also Elected deck patrolman for the Port of Baltimore for ten terms 1958-60, and again in 1960. Have been serving Union in Puerto Rico. from 1938-48. Sailed actively on a leave of absence, in the war years, 1942-43. Served as patrolman-organizer during the Isthmian drive and returned to this position on appointment in May, 1952. Was BERNARD TONER—Book No. T.28— No. 32 On Ballot active In the 1946 general strike. Sailed as AB between 1948 and 1952. Elected Baltimore joint patrolman 1955 to present. Elected as Balti more Port Agent in 1960. Has been clear in all Union strikes. For; Baltimore Joint Patrolman I have been In the SIU ever since I began sailing. I ship in the (Vote For Four) deck department as bosun, carpenter or deck maintenance, and have had my share of deck and ship's delegate jobs. W. PAUL GONSORCHIK—Book No. G.2— No. 40 On Ballot STEVEN (Steve) ZUBOVICH- -Book No. Z-13— I joined the SIU on its inception, 1938. Became dispatcher in No. 33 On Ballot New York, 1940, served until 1948. In 1948 became patrolman in New York until 1960. In 1960 appointed agent Port of Norfolk, Va. Beginning in 1962 served as patrolman for the Port of Baltimore, First sailed on Seafarers International Union ships in 1944. Re Md., for two-and-a-half years. As of January 1964, appointed agent ceived full book in 1945. Have clearance for all major beefs while pro tem till present date. Participated in all the major strikes for shipping. Was in US Navy in 1946. Then returned to sea. Sail in the time in New York, Baltimore and Norfolk. deck department. Elected ship's delegate or deck delegate on majority of ships I sailed on. Elected joint patrolman in 1960, and ELI HANOVER—Book No. H-313— No. 41 On Ballot have been serving in port of New York. Joined the Seafarers International Union on July 23, 1941, in the For; Philadelphia Agent port of New York. Sails in the deck department. Served on numer ous ships as ship's delegate and department delegate. Participated in (Vote For One) many major Union actions and is strike-clear on all strikes. Served as dispatcher part of 1953 and 1954 and again in 1956. Elected patrol man in 1956 and 1958. Have been an active SIU member for almost FRANK DROZAK—Book No. D-22— No. 34 On Ballot 20 years. Elected in 1960 as Baltimore joint patrolman. ANTHONY (Tony) KASTINA—Book No. K-5- Joined SIU in 1944 from port of Mobile, Sailed boatswain. Elected No. 42 On Ballot ships Delegate on most of contracted vessels. Active in all major beef: Cities Service, Isthmian, Moore-McCormack, NMU,- Railroad Have been serving the Seafarers International Union of North Strike, SS Atlantic Beef, Teamster beefs in Puerto Rico and Phila America, Atlantic and Gulf District, since June 9, 1950. During that delphia. Acting Port Agent in New York from 1959 to 1961. Port time has served as dispatcher, patrolman and also have handled the Agent Philadelphia since 1962 and Secretary-Treasurer of Maritime Union's Welfare Plan for a number of years. Also have been active Port Council in Philadelphia. in the organizational programs in the Baltimore area, including the American Coal Beef. Have all strike clearances since joining SIU. Elected Baltimore joint patrolman in 1960. For; Philadelphia Joint Patrolman BENJAMIN WILSON—Book No. W-217—No. 43 On Ballot (Vote For Two) WILLIAM R. DAVIES—Book No. D-178— I started sailing with the SIU in 1943." Served as Delegate on No. 35 On Ballpt various ships, was active in all strikes and in the Isthmian drive. I also worked in the Baltimore hall since 1957. In May, 1962, to the present date, have been working as patrolman and welfare repres entative for the Union. I have been an active member of the Seafarers Union for 22 years, helped organize on many occasions, and served the Union when needed in many ports, and also as Delegate on many ships. I have always believed in Unions and what they stand for, and will, alwaya For: Mobile Agent will respond to the responsibility of being a Union brother. (Vote For One) BELARMINO (Benny) GONZALEZ—Book No. 0-4- FREDERICK H. JOHNSON—Book No. J-44— No. 36 On Ballot No. 44 On Ballot Have been a member of the Union since joining in the Port of Joined the SIU in 1938, in Tampa. Active in organizing P&O Line New York in June 1942. Active seaman all during war and ever and in subsequent P&O strike. Helped organize Florida East Coast since. Have participated in all Union beefs and am clear for all Carferry in 1940. Was New York dispatcher in 1946-47, steward de strikes and beefs. Have been ship and deck delegate on many partment patrolman in 1948. Elected Baltimore steward patrolman in ships and also ship and shop steward in Mobile. Know what beefs 1949. Served as AFL organizer in Florida. Was patrolman in Tampa, we have on our ships as 1 have been sailing them. Am at present on patrolman and dispatcher in New York during 1953-54. Elected SS DEL NORTE and have been for several months. Tampa joint patrolman In 1955-56. Now serving as Miami agent. LOUIS (Blackie) NEIRA- -Book No. N-l- LEON HALL, JR.—Book No. H-125—No. 37 On Ballot No. 45 On Ballot Joined the SIU in the Port of NY in 1943. Sailed in the engine department. Appointed organizer in Mobile in 1945. Organized Joined Union in 1939. Sailed continuously until 1942 when I went Mobile Towing Co. and other towboat companies in Mobile and into service of U.S. Army, serving until 1946. Returned to sailing on Gulf area. Chairman of strike committee in Mobile for 1946 general leaving Army. Served as delegate aboard many vessels. Participated strike. Active in 1947 Isthmian strike and numerous other Union in 1946 general strike. Wall Street strike, the Isthmian beef and beefs. Served as acting SIU agent, patrolman and organizer in Mo p.-actically all other major Union beefs. Have worked as patrolman in bile and other ports. Appointed Miami port agent 1958. Elected the ports of San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York. Tampa agent for 1959-'60. In 1960 was elected as Mobile agent Continued on page S Ofltober If. 1914 Sopplment—^Pare Five THOMAS (Tom) GOULD—Book No. G-267— fort Mobile Joint Patrolman No. 53 On Ballot (Vote For Four) Joined SIU in Port of New Orleans on December 23, 1942. Sailed regularly throughout the war years. Active in Union's post war organizing campaigns in the Isthmian and Cities Service fleets. HAROLD J. nSCHER—Book No. F-l— No. 46 On Ballot Took part in 1946 general strike and other major beefs through the years. Elected to, various rank and file committees. Served as Have been a member of the SIU since 1938. Sailed steadily in the welfare services representative, dispatcher and patrolman in New engine department during the war until December 1943 when ap York. Also served in Seattle. Elected New York deck patrolman pointed Mobile dispatcher. Was drafted into the U.S. Army In 1944 in 1955-1956. Elected Joint patrolman in New Orleans in 1956-1958. and discharged in 1946. Returned to sea. Served again in Mobile Presently serving as Joint patrolman in New Orleans. as patrolman-dispatcher for four years from 1946 until 1950. Served as SIU West Coast representative and San Francisco agent from 1950 to 1953. Elected Mobile Joint patrolman 1953 to 1964. Served in, and have clear strike record on, all beefs. LUIS GUARINO—Book No. G-520— No. 54 On Ballot Have been sailing since 1946, in the deck department the majority ROBERT JORDAN—Book No. J-1— No. 47 On Ballot of the time. Last ship was the SS Dei Norte in the capacity of boat swains mate. Participated in various beefs and picket lines in and Sailed as a member in the engine department since 1938. Was around the Port of New Orleans for the SIU and other unions. organizer in the Gulf area for Isthmian ships and tugboats from Acted as delegate on various ships. Was appointed joint patrolman September 1945, and on. Served as Mobile engine department in the Port of New Orleans in July of 1961 and have been joint patrolman in February 1946. Was acting dispatcher and organizer patrolman in the Port of New Orleans since July of 1961. Presently in that Port. Was elected engine patrolman in Mobile in each elec Joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans. tion from the year 1949 to 1956. Elected point patrolman from 1956 to 1964. Active in ail SIU beefs and picketing actions for many years. Have strike clearance records. ANDREW A. G. McCLOSKEY- -Book No. M-950— No. 55 On Ballot LEO P. MARSH—Book No. M-9— No. 48 On Ballot Have all necessary seatime to qualify. Joined in 1947 and shipping steadily since. Have sailed in black gang particularly all my life, I have been a member o? the SIU since its inception and have with exception of three years in steward department. Know ail always sailed in the steward's department, in ail ratings and on problems confronting seamen and can cope with their beefs. Have almost ail types of vessels under Union contract. Have clearances long been associated with organized labor, dating back to 1939 when for ail SIU strikes and beefs since the Union was organized and I organized and was president of Local 276 Amalgamated Meat have taken active part in ail of them. Was appointed steward patrol Gutters Union. Delegate to state convention in 1940. Organizer for man for the Port of Mobile in December 1951. Elected Mobile CIO Shipyard Workers. Was on negotiating committee in 1947 in steward patrolman 1953-1956. Elected Mobile Joint patrolman 1957 regards T. Smith and some tugboat contracts, Algiers, La. Have through 1964. served many times as departmental and ships' delegate. Have always done utmost for my Brother members. WILLIAM J. (Red) MORRIS—Book No. M-4- No. 49 On Ballot HERMAN TROXCLAIR—Book No. T-4—No. 56 On Ballot Have sailed since 1939 and through World War II. Appointed acting agent for Jacksonville in March 1945. Later assigned to New York and then to Norfolk as patrolman. Served as acting agent at Joined SIU in March, 1941, and has been active in Union since Charleston, SC. Appointed patrolman for Mobile 1947, served as that date in all strikes, beefs and organizational campaigns, serving deck patrolman in Mobile in 1948, Joint patrolman in 1949, deck on many committees. During World War II sailed widely in many patrolman 1953 to 1956, and 1958 to 19bu and served as such until combat areas. Always sailed in steward department. Was first Savannah Hall closed. Elected as Joint patrolman in Mobile 1961- elected steward department patrolman for New Orleans in 1948. 1964 but was assigned Jacksonville Port Agent. Have taken part in Was re-elected for 1949 and 1950. Elected steward patrolman in Union beefs and strikes and hold strike clearance records. same port for '52, '53, '54. Elected joint patrolman in 1960. Strike clearances for all beefs. For: New Orleans Agent PAUL WARREN—Book No. W-3— No. 57 On Ballot (Vote For One) Joined the SIU in 1938. Sailed in the deck department with all deck department ratings. Sailed during World War II in all theaters C. J. (Buck) STEPHENS—Book No. S-4- of operation. Participated and took an active part in all SIU beefs No. 50 On Ballot since the inception of the Union as an active member. Appointed to various Jobs in the Union including Great Lakes organizer, Cities One of the early members of the SIU, Joining in December, 1938. Service and Isthmian organizer and patrolman. Worked as joint Active in 1939 Isthmian strike, 1939 bonus strike, 1946 general strike patrolman in the Port of New Orleans for the past 15 years. Pres and 1947 Isthmian strike when company signed. Served A&G Dis ently Joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans. trict in many capacities from dispatcher to agent in New Orleans. Sailed in ail combat zones during WW II. Elected New Orleans engine or Joint patrolman since 1947 in every election up to 1960 when I was elected as Port Agent. Have participated in many Union beefs. For: Houston Agent (Vote For One) For: New Orleans Joint Patrolman PAUL DROZAK—Book No. D-180- No. 58 On Ballot (Vote For Four) Became SIU member in 1945 in Mobile. Active in many major Union strikes and beefs from 1946 general strike down to present. A. E. (Jerry) CUNNINGHAM—Book No. 718— Served as Seattle and San Francisco patrolman from 1951 to 1954. No. 51 On Ballot Served a two-year hitch in the US Army, 1954 to 1956, and then was assigned as New York patrolman. Major assignment was on Served in World War II as member of 101st Air Borne Division. Robin Line beef where I was active for full year from time the Started sailing with SIU in 1947 from/ Port of Galveston, Texas, ships were sold until SIU won the beef. Has clear Union record. after transferring from SUP. Hold every unlicensed rating in En Elected New York Joint patrolman in 1958, and Agent in 1960. gine Department and have sailed in al'. of them. Have very good knowledge of Union contracts and agr^jements. Clear record in all strikes and beefs in which SIU has been involved. Served as Ship and Departmental Delegate whenever called upon. Now makes home in New Orleans, and have sailed mainly from this Port, but have For: Houston Joint Patrolman sailed from all other ports and has many friends up and down coast. (Vote For Four) HENRY B. DONNELLY—Book No. D-324- No. 52 On Ballot MARTIN (Marly) BREITHOFF- -Book No. B-2 No. 59 On Ballot Joined SIU in 1947, sailed in Steward Department in almost all capacities on freighters, tankers, passenger vessels. Have approxi Started sailing with SIU in 1942 and sailed during World War II mately 15 years seatime. Have clearances for all strikes and organ in the combat zones in both engine and steward departments. Served izing beefs, one-time editor of the SS Puerto Rico "Advocate" and on grievance committee in Tampa during 1946 general strike. Was SS Del Norte "Navigator." Understand working conditions in galley, shipboard organizer at start of Cities Service drive in 1946. Served messrooms, topside and below on passenger vessels, having worked as chief dispatcher. Port of New York, in 1951 and 1952. Elected NY them all, and reasons for disputed overtime. If elected New Orleans joint patrolman 1953 to 1956. San Francisco agent for fqur years. Joint patrolman I will try to change saying we have in Gulf about Now serving as Houston Joint patrolman. disputed overtime from "Write it down but you ain't going to get it" to "Write it down we'll try to get it for you." Continued on page S Sapplement—Page 81s beteber ll* 1N4 WILLIAM J. DOAK—Book No. D-262—No. 60 On Ballot R. F. (Mlckej) WILBURN—Book No. W-6— No. 63 On Ballot Joined the SIU In the Port of New Orleans on August 8, 1944. Have been with SIU since 1945 when I Joined in the Port of New York. Sailed in the deck department. Have been active in all Sailed In the deck department and have AB's rating. Have served in ail major Union beefs and organizing campaigns. Participated major beefs since then, including the Isthmian beef. Served as in the 1946 general strike and have strike clearance. Was active in instructor in the Union's training programs, and on the waterfront In the Port of New York. Have worked as Joint patrolman In the a great many successful organizing campaigns in behalf of the Union Port of Houston since 1961. in the tug boat and other inland fields. Presently serving as agent In Port Arthur, Texas. ROAN LIGHTFOOT—Book No. L.562—No. 61 On Ballot Began sailing for the SIU in 1952, after serving six and one-half years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Sailed in the deck department and For: Detroif Agent have bosun's rating. Have been active in all organizing campaigns and Union beefs since coming into the Union. Served in various capacities in the Port of Houston and have participated in all major (Vote For One) Union beefs since joining the Union. Am now serving as patrolman in the Port of Houston. OSCAR M. RAYNOR—Book No. R.520—No. 62 On Ballot E. (Scottie) AUBUSSON—Book No. A-8—No. 64 On Ballot Having started with the SIU in 1947 at the port of New Orleans, I have sailed steady from all Ports. I received my full book in 1954 Joined the SIU, A&G District, in 1942 and sailed with the Union in the port of New York. I have always been in good standing with during World War II. Active in numerous major strikes and beefs the Union, as far as money goes. Have served as department dele of the Union, including the 1946 general strike, the 1947 Isthmian gate and/or ship's delegate on most all the ships I have been on. strike and many other beefs since then. Served as dispatcher at Have always brought in a clean ship for payoff. Also I lost the last headquarters in 1955-60 and also as headquarters patrolman. Served election. I hope I can qualify for this one. as organizer and patrolman on Great Lkes. SIU Constitution Rules On Elections the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be removed, plac^ near (d) The Polls Committee shall permit full book members only the roster sheet, and the member shall proceed to the voting site • f.® Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the voted and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper fact of voting shall be placed in the member's Union book. registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good order and decorum at the (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establishment voting site and vicinity thereof. All members and others affiliated of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Article XIII Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot decorum. Section 3. Balloting Procedure so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which (e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the ballot, shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularities in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the following locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. procedure shall be observed: . (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the election At the end of each day's voting, the Polls Committee, in the year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sun presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he observes days and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all in the city in which the port affected is located. If November 1st of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall or Deceinber 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a port in then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committee shall there the city in which that port is located, the balloting period in such upon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or enve • (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure die proper and timely port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the lopes, with their book numbers next to their signatures. The I preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said I' Yiie ballots may contain ^neral information and instructive com ports shall commence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M., envelopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or, envelopes, that the ments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. except that, on Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon aplhabetically within continue until 12 noon. day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical in the envelope or envelopes dated for that day and voted in that pattern, commencing with the most northerly port on the Atlantic Section 4. Polls Committees Port. The Polls Committee shall check the rosters, and any other coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly records they deem appropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and (a) Each port shall elert, prior to the beginning of the voting discretion of the Executive Board, oflicial envelopes may be pre so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting of three full pared for the purpoM of enclosing the ballots and the making Continental United States shall then be added.. There shall be book members none of whom shall be a candidate, officer or an of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying the fore- allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit each elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding a .going inscribed-thereon, in which event these envelopes shall be member voting to write in as many names as there are offices and meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwith •used by the Polls Committee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have standing the provisions of Article XXIII, Section 2, or any other contained herein shall prevent any member of a Polls Committee t'.ie number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so per provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall constitute from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, forated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be a quomm for each port, with the said meeting to be held between provided the comments are signed and dated by tlie member making easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice thereof required. It shall them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the namre be the obligation of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Com or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Executive Board, may of the ballot and the voting date thereof. mittee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present during be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then this time period. It shall be the responsibility of the Port Agent be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or to see that the meeting for the purine of eleaing the said Polls registered mail, by the said Polls Committee, to the depository (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the Secretary- Committee is. called/ and that the minutes of the said meeting are named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. sent daily to the Secretary-Treasurer. In no case shall voting take Polls Committee shall not be discharged from its duties until this Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the preceding para place un ess a duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. mailing is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is graph and shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with f'') duly eleaed Polls Committee shall collect all unused furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots in the Port Agent's election records or files. each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes, amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the Secretary-Treasurer, files kept by the Port Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the are locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, i who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an enveloj^, across the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. Each Port and corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compare the flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their Agent shall maintain separate records of the ballots sent him and the serial number and amounts of ballots used with the verifica names, book numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope shall inspect and count the ballots, when received, to insure that securely. In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the tion list, as corrected, and ascertain whether the unused ballots, as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall deliver to the Port Agent amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, been sent to that port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute what appears on the verifiication list, as corrected, and the ballots any reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they may and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the used. If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon shall have received, and all the smbs collected both for the day and those correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, which turned over to it.-The Port Agent shall be responsible for notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies report shall be in duplicate, and signed by all the members of such proper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In Polls Committee. Each member of the Committee may make what any of it until duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegally any event, receipts shall be forwarded for ballots actually received. separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed tampers with the material placed in his custody. Ihe remaining The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept and dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given the Port copy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This Agent, to be presented at the next regular meeting. A copy shall Polls Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or regis file shall at all times be available to any member for inspection also be simultaneously sent to the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall tered mail or delivered in person. of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. cause an investigation to be made forthwith. The results of such (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without com investigation shall be reported to the membership as soon as com pensation, except that the Port Agent shall compensate each Polls (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at port offices, arid pleted, with recommendations by tlie Secretary-Treasurer. A ma Committee member with a reasonable sum for meals while serving shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distinguishing jority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, or provide meals in lieu of cash. mark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary write in the name or names of any member or members, as appro contained in this Constitution, the Executive Board shall not make Section 5. Ballot Collection, Tallying priate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, any determination in these matters. Procedure, Protests, And Port Agent or Patrolman. (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box is fd) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except Special Votes prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Comminee in the manner hereinafter set forth. The same procedure as is of the port in which they are voting. The voter's book number set forth in the preceding paragraph with regard to discrepancies (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the shall be placed upon the roster sheet (which shall be kept in shall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their other du|iicate) in the space opposite the proper ballot number, and believe the lock and seal have been illegally tampered with. duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or mail to Ootobw 16, im Bapplement—Pare Seven SlU Constitution Rules On Elections (€ontinued) headquarters (by certified or registered mall), tU the unused ballots, abfe measures to adjust the course of lo proceedings so u to 'termj of such special vote. The Secretary-Treasurer shaH make « together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of die tnable the special vote set forth in this Section 5 (c) to. be com sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immediately avail Committee that all ballots sent to die port and not used are pleted within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be able to Pott Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Imme enclosed therewith, subject to the tight of each member of the made by it unless and until die special votes referred to in this diately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and Section 5 (c) shall have been duly completed and tallied. results and communicate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall pro ceed to the jmrt in which headquarters is located, as soon as possi special vote shall be forwarded to the Secretary-Traesurer, all in but bound separately, the committee shall forward to headquarters ffie same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means all stubs collected during the period of voting, together with a ble after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election practicable, but, in any case, to as to reach the Secretary-Treasurer certification, signed by all members of the committee, that all the in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this stubs collected by the committee are enclosed therewith subject to year. Each member of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, Section 5(g). An accounting and certification, made by the Pore the right of each member of the committee to make separate com Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be ments under his signature and date. The said Polls Committee meals, and lodging expense occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shall also enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a members shall not be discharged from their duties until the for report containing a combined summary of the results, together warding called for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subse quent'to their election to the day they return, in normal course, with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect the Union mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in its closing report. The shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. to the Port from which they were elected., The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairihan from form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. (b) All forwarding to headquarters called for under this Section Twd (2) copies shall be sent to each port, one copy of which shall 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Gimmittee, at the address of among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Con stitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, be posted. 'The other copy shall be presented at the next regular headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot be elected meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attendance, membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the the Port Agent shall have the du./ to forward the material specifi numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tally- cally set forth in Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the . ing Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final Union Tallying Committee, which will then carry out the functions without modification. in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee. In such event, the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository imme diately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report thereon by the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of 'and by the Union Tallying Committee to execute those functions. custody during the course of the committee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the membership All certifications called for under this Article XIII shall be of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting. deemed made according to the l»st knowledge, and .belief of those to any member, provided he observes decoruru. In no event, shall If such recheck and recount is ordered, the Union "Tallying Com required to make such certification. the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the mittee shall be required to continue its proceedings correspondingly. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 15th immedi members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of ately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Com New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, mittee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and Detroit. The election shall be held ac the regular meeting ia and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event Section 6. Installation Into Office And December of the election year, or if the Executive Board other a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this wise determines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the Article, the committee shall be reconstituted except that if any The Job Of Headquarters aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be month. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Pa elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for Representative, Port Agent that purpose as soon as possible. trolman, or candidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Rep And Patrolman resentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in sufficient to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies In addition to its duties hereinbefore set forth, the Union Tallying shall be sent by the committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary- Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting scheduled to take and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting in the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the less from the close of this committee's proceedings, then at least Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with five days prior to the next regular meeting. Whichever meeting or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each applies shall be designated, by date, in the report and shall be highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determina total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall referred to as the "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these tions shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at its report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. Ihis copy to notify each individual elected. discretion. The report shall clearly detail aU discrepancies discovered, shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall'take and shall contain recommendations for the treatmeiit of these dis Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, crepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meeting, or the without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this Article next regular meeting, depending upon which meeting the results to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as pro validity of the ballots, with pettinent details. therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what vided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue The Tallying Committee is also charged with the receipt and action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution, shall be taken up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an illegal thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of contrary contained in Article XI, Section I. This shall not apply denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests invalid, it shall where the successful candidate cannot assume his office because he a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results is at sea. dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest valid, the committee shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event Election Rpeort Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the of its proceedings, on such terms as are practical, effective, and a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more just, but which terms, in any event, shall include the provisions of provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply inembers of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the con until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site tingencies provided for in this Section 5(f) the closing report of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a shall be accepted as final. office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these membership. (g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Seciton 5(f) must take terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary Saction 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the contained in this Article. Protests may be made only in writing place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election preservation and retention of all election records, including the and must be received by the Union Tallying Committee during Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so aaed ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the limits of the vote set by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such other and further directives as to the eleaion procedures as include a brief summary of each protest received, the name and are required by law which directives shall be part of the election book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the such port shall have the functions of the Tallying Committee as procedures of this Union. disposition of the said protest. The committee shall take all reason^ set forth in Section 5(c), insofar as that Section deals with the ADDITION TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN FORTHCOMING ELECTION OF OFFICERS (Under Article XIII, Section 7, of the union's Constitu visions of the constitution and should not be construed mining whether such member is a member in good stand tion, the Secretary-Treasurer of the union, A1 Kerr, pre to be an alteration of same. ing and further whether such member has, in fact, voted sented the following "Addition To The 'Voting Procedures Absentee Ballot. previousl.v. He shall send the processed ballot by Regis In The Forthcoming Election of Officers." These proce Article XIII, Sections 3 and 4, "Balloting Procedures" tered Mail-Return Receipt Requested to the address des dures were adopted by the membership in the April and and "Polls Committee," of the constitution, provide that ignated by such member in his absentee ballot request. May membership meetings and are now a part of the balloting shall be manual in nature. It is now recom The Secretary-Treasurer shall send to such member with election procedures of the union.) mended that the following absentee ballot procedure be his Ballot, instructions for returning the ballot, which presented to the membership upon advice of counsel as an instructions must be complied with exactly. The Secre President's Pre-Ballbting Report. amplification of such provisions: tary-Treasurer shall further maintain a record showing Article X, Section 1, "The President," Sub-Section (e), Full book members may request an absentee ballot un the name, book number of the member, his ballot number provides that the President's Pre-Balloting Report shall be der the following circumstances, only. While such mem and the date upon which such ballot was sent, which in submitted to the membership at the regular meeting in ber is employed on an American-flag merchant vessel formation shall be turned over to the Union Tallying July of every election year. It is recommended to the which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to touch a Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article membership in this connection that such Pre-Balloting port in which voting is to take place during the voting XIII, Section 5 (c) of the constitution. The member, after Report be made both at the June and July meetings so as period provided in Section 3 (g) of our constitution, in that voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registered or to give more than adequate notice to any prospective event, the member shall make a request for an absentee Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device at the nominee for office. ballot by Registered or Certified Mail or the equivalent location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if mailing device at the location from which such request Provision for Nomination by Others. such be the case, to the depository named in the Presi Is made, if such be the case. Such request must contain dent's Pre-Balloting Report. Article XIII, Section 1, "Nominations," provides for self- a designation as to the address to which such member These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to nomination to office. In order to square any ambiguity wishes his absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be midnight of December 31, 1964, and must be received by as to the meaning of this section, it is recommended that a received no later than 12:00 P.M. on the fifteenth day of the depository named in the President s Pre-Balloting Re member may place his name in nomination or have his November of the election year and shall be directed to port, prior to January 10, 1965, regardless of when post name placed in nomination by any other member and the Secretary-Treasurer at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, marked, for them to be counted as eligible vote§. Such further, that in either event, such member nominated New York, 11232. Upon receipt of such request, the pro ballots will be maintaineh separately by such depository must comply with the provisions of the constitution, as cedures as established in Section 3 (d) of our constitution, and shall then be turned over to the Union Tallying Com they are set forth, relating to the submission of creden shall not apply. mittee, as provided in Section 5 (d) of Article XIII of the tials. This change is an amplification of the existing pro The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for deter constitution. .1. OFFICIAL BALLOT For Election of 1965-1968 Officers SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic, Gulf, lakoi anfl Inland Waters District VOTING PERIOD NOVEMBER 2nd, 1964 THROUGH DECEMBER 31st, 1964 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS—In order to vote for a candidate, mark a cro« (X) Itl voting square to the left of name. If you vote for more candidates for office than specified herein your vote for such office will be invalid. YOU MAY WRITE THE NAME OF ANY MEMBER WHOSE NAME DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE BALLOT IN THE BUNK SPACE PROVIDED FOR THAT PURPOSE UNDER EACH OFRCE Do not use a lead pencil in marking the ballot. Ballots marked with lead pencil will ^"1 ".»<••• not be counted. AAARK YOUR BALLOT WITH PEN AND INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL. PRESIDENT NEW YORK JOINT PATROIMAN MOBILE AGENT Vota for Ono Vote for Ten • Vote for One 1 • John Cole, C-8 16 • Theodore (Ted) Babkowski, B-1 44 Q Frederick H. Johnson, J-44 2 • Paul Hall, H-1 17 • Angus (Red) Campbell, C-217 "• 45 • Louis (Blackie) Neira, N-1 3 • William John Smith, S-60 18 • Warren H. Cossidy, C-724 19 • John Fay, F-363 20 • Vincent Genco, G-79 21 O Luige lovino, 1-11 MOBILE JOINT PATROLMAN EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT 22 • Pasquale (Pot) Marinelll, M-462 Vote for Four Vote for Ono 23 O Frank AAongelli, M-1111 24 • E B. (Atoc) McAuley, M-20 46 • Harold J. Fischer, F-1 4 • Col Tanner, T-1 25 • George McCartney, M-948 47 • Robert Jordan, J-1 26 • Fred George Oestman, 0-41 Leo P. Marsh, M-9 27 • George (Frenchy) Ruf, R-1 49 • William J. (Red) Morris, M-4 28 • Charles J. Scofield,S-186 SECRETARY-TREASURER 29 • Charies Stambul, S-578 • Vote for Ono 30 • Lorence E. Taylor, T-79 31 • Keith Terpe, T-3 5 • Al Kerr, K-7 32 Q Bernard Toner, T-28 33 • Steven (Steve) Zubovich, Z-J3 NEW ORLEANS AGENT VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OP Vote for Ono • CONTRACTS AND CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT 50 • C. J. (Buck) Stephens, S-4 Vote for One 6 Q Robert A. Matthews, M-1 NEW ORLEANS JOINT PATROIAUN • Vote for Four VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OP THE ATUNTIC COAST 51 • A. E. (Jerry) Cunningham, C-718 Vote for One 52 • Henry B. Donnelly, D-324 PHIUDELPHIA AGENT 53 • Thomas E. Gould, G-267 7 • Eori (Bull) Shepard, S-2 Vote for Ono 54 • Louis Guorino, G-520 55 • Andrew A. G. A^CIoskey, M-950 34 "• Frank Drocok, D-22 56 Q Herman M. Troxcloir, T-4 57 • Paul Warren, W-3 VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OP THE GULF COAST Vote for One PHIUDELPHIA JOINT PATROLMAN 8 • James L. (Jimmie) Tucker, T-22 Vote for Two 9 Q Lindsey J. Williams, W-1 35 • William R. Davies, D-178 36 • Belarmina (Bennie) Gonzalez, G-4 HOUSTON AGENT 37 • Leon Hall, Jr.. H-125 Vote for Ono VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF 38 • Edward Kresz, K-315 THE LAKES AND INLAND WATERS 58 • Paul Drozak,D-18D Vote for One 10 • Al Tanner, T-12 HOUSTON JOINT PATROLMAN BALTIMORE AGENT Voto for Four Vote for One HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Voto for Three 59 Q Martin J. (Marty) Bjreithoff, B-2 39 • Ryford (Rex) Dickey, D-6 60 • William J. D^k7D^262 n • William Hall, H-272 61 • Roan Lightfoot, L-562 12 • Thomas (Curley) Liles, Jr., L-230 62 Q Oscar M. Raynor, R-520 13 U Edward (Eddie) Mooney, M-7 63 • R. F. (Mickey) Wilburn, W-6 14 • Frederick (Freddie) Stewart, S-8 BALTIMORE JOINT PATROLMAN • Vote for Four 40 • W. Poul Gonsorchik, G-2 41 • Eli Hanover, H-313 42 • Tony Kastina, K-5 NEW YORK PORT AGENT 43 • Benjomin Wilson, W-217 DETROIT AGENT Vote for Ono Voto for Ono 15 ••• Joseph (Joe) Dl Giorgio, D-2 - 64 • Frank (Scottie) Aubusson, A-8