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w - — - adian maritime unions are shown in Montreal headquarters of Canadian SIU during formation of Great Lakes Conference of MTD, Conference was set up to fight both US and Canadian runaway-flag opera­ tions. Meeting hit use of British fiag as refuge. (Story on Page 3.)

nonaayHolfffflV Chg^g^rwneer. bad if,^ likebroken seafarer arm isn't Man­ so uel Rodriguez, you have USPHS nurse Ellen Yannon to give you a hand with Thanksgiving dinner. Rodriguez, who suffered injury aboard Beatrice, was further cheered, like all hospital patients by SIU gift of fruit. (Other photos on page 5.)

C/I/A CAfn Examining SIU Safety •• iJflfjP# Award aboard Warrior 1% are^ (1 to r) Waterman Safety Director Earl Smith, Capt. E. Patronas, Ship's delegate Ami Bjornsson, Mobile Patrolman Robert Jordan. a-.6.^-• •i®'' . .-II'." ''I '•'S • ^

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'75-25' Proposed NY Port Council Meeting 41 US Ships M^y Get 4 Bigger Cargo Slice WASHINGTON—There are strong indications that th§ Government is going to give the American-flag shipping industry i belated boost through a brand new "Ship America" policy, including a 75-25 break on government cargo. The new program, if put into effect, would result in vastly-in-^ ~~ ' creased cargoes for American many vessels now under the run-.^ represent a reversal of the Admin­ ships and possibly the trans- away flags. istration's practice of encouraging fer back to the American flag of I The "Ship America" policy would the use of runaway-flag ships. It is being considered because of the unfavorable balance of payments 'Take As Directed' Situation which is causing US gold and dollars to leave the country in large quantities. Use of runaway- flag and foreign-flag shipping is one of the major factors in the loss of currency. (See feature on page 16). Regulations Under Scrutiny Anthony Scotto, ILA, chairs first formal meeting of MTD % New York council. Seated at dias (1. to f.) are: Field Rep­ Under-Secretary of Commerce John Allen, a former Congressman resentative Raymond "Chuck" Connors, ILA; Executive from California with a strong mari­ Secretary Joe Powell, OEIU, and Vice-President Jerry time background has already de­ Wurf, State, County and Municipal Employees. clared that officials are consider­ if' ing regulations which would give "an even break" to US-flag ships# It is believed that two procedures NY MTD Plans Action , are under consideration. The President by presidential difective, would order US Govern­ ment agencies to revise the "50-50" On Waterfront Beefs ? law upward so as to give US-flag ships as much as 75 percent of all The first formal meeting of the Maritime Port Council of Government-financed cargoes, The Greater NY Harbor adopted a constitution and set in motion law simply sets a floor of at least a program to assist member unions in their problems in, the 50 percent, but most of the agen­ cies involved, particularly the Portof New, York. Agriculture Department, have re­ In addition to adopting a President, Jerry Wurf, executive director. District 37, State, County garded the 50 percent figure as a constitution, the December 6 ceiling. The Department has been and Municipal Employees Union; meeting at the Hotel New Yorker openly hostile to the use of Amer­ Executive Secretary—Joe Powell, ican-flag shipping. agreed ^o extend the terms of the international organizer, Officie present interim officers for six Employees International tlriipn; To Woo Private Shippers months. This will enable organi­ Field Representative—Raymond ^ J, Other executive action would "Chuck" Connors, ILA Local 79i, be taken to make it more attractive zations who affiliate with the coun­ cil subsequently or who were up- Prize-winning LOG cartoon which appeared for private shippers to serid their cargo abroad on US ve^els. able to attend the first formal December 19, 1959, issue is shown above. meeting to participate in the elec­ ii Rep. Thor Tollefson, the ranking Republican member of the- House tion of officers. Merchant Marine Committee, has Hits Waterfront Communism i: LOG Cartoon Wins already called on President Eisen­ An immediate situation which hower to give as much as 80 to 90 the port council will deal with is percent of Government-financed the plan for a protest against the Labor Press Prize cargoes to US ships. He also sug­ Bi-State Waterfront Commission's gests that the next Congress set a iron-clad control over the laveU- DETROIT—The SIU has won its 26th labor press award fixed percentage quota for private hood of members of the Inter­ in the last 14 ygears and its 12th in the last four years since cargoes to be carried on American national Longshoremen's Associa­ the'merger of the AFL-CIO. The 1960 International Labor ships. tion. The delegates agreed that a Press contest chose a SEA--* Foreign nations have earned ap­ mass meeting be held under the FARERS LOG cartoon out of and other standard drugstore proximately $1 billion for carrying auspices of the port council to 21 entries as the best in the items. US cargo and passengers in 1959, protest the commission's power to Labor Press field. Each of the 21 In all, there were .five categories a good deal of which could «'be license longshoremen for work on entries was permitted to submit in which the LOG' enterfed iaiong saved by the "Ship America" the piers. policy. up to five samples. with publications of international The meeting will be set up at The award-winning cartoon was unions. While it is the publication Fojr background story on dollar the convenience of the longshore drawn by LOG staff Art Editor (Continued pn^ page 7) drain see feature on page 17. union, probably in Madison Square Bernard Seaman. Entitled "Take Garden. As Directed," it dealt with the The port .council meeting drew problem of excessive prescription wide representation from unions in ILA President William drug prices and pointed out that the New York area. Attending sick patients had no alternative but INDEX Bradley discusses the Wa­ to pay the exorbitant tariffs were some 120 delegates represent­ terfront Commission at charged by the self-styled "ethical" To Departments ing 25 international unions whose NY MTD meeting. Group drug manufacturing concerns. members are employed in various The SIU Inland Boatmait The SIU industrial Worker phases of maritime activity. Among agreed to organize a pro­ In choosing the LOG caption, —Pages 8, 9 —Page 25 test meeting. the judges from the faculty of the those present was John Strong, University of Michigan Department president of Teamsters Local 807, of Journalism made the following SIU Social Security Dep't SIU Siofefy Department New York, the largest general SEAFARERS LOG comment; "Professional craftsman­ —Page 13 • —Page 7 trucking union in the metropolitan ship in drawing; an effective cap­ area and one which handles the Dec., 1960 VoL XXII, No. 20 tion; a subject of wide interest arid SIU Medical Deportment bulk of waterfront trucking. Strong concern." The Pacific Coast Seafarer —Page 19 participated as an observer since f Seaman's- LOG cartoons have —Pages 22, 23 the Teamsters are not affiliated won seven citations, including two with the AFL-CIO. ' SIU Food. Ship Sanitation PAUI, HALL, President first prizes, in the last 14 years. Group Receives Union Support The cartoon had originally been The Great Lakes Seafarer Dep't • —Page 20 HERBERT BRAND, Editor. BERNARD SEA­ proiripted by the outcome of Ke- —Pages 10, 11 • Messages of support were also MAN, Art Editor. HERMAN ARTHUR, read at the meeting from the struc­ AL MASKIN, QIIAHLES BEAUMET, ALBERT r fauver committee hearings irito • AMATEAU, JOHN BRAzy,, Staff Writers, excessive pricing by the drug in­ Editorial Cartoon —Page 15 tural ironworkers union, as well as • from the'Metal Trades Department, dustry. Subsequently the SIU and The Fisherman and Putillsheo RioniTily ar ma htadquarlars 12 other New York unions com­ Cannery Worker A&G Deep Seo Shipping which is directing its affiliates to of fha Seafarers International Union. At­ participate in the council. lantic Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters bined to set up the Medstore plam; —Page 18 Report -r-Pw6 District) AFL-CIO, 47S Fourth Avenue, The interim Officers, who will Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYscinth The Medstore \vill consfcst of a Second class postage paid at thd Post chain of non-profit retail drug­ ,• Ooirtinue to serve on the port body, Office in Brooklyn, NY, under thg Act stores (Which will supply Union The Canadian Seafarer . Shipboard News for another six iripnths are: Presi­ of Aug. 24, 1912. members and their farniUes- ivith . . —Page 21 ; —Pages 27, 28,89, 30 dent—Anthony Scotto, organizing low-cp^t prfe^pciptiott medjcinea djrect(^:;L9ML -Vice- • -i. - is December, IflM SEAFARERS LOG Pace Three » ii r- • Set Up Regional MTD On Lakes (': I'' Conference Will Combat US, Canadian Runaways V c* MONTREAL—A coordinated attack on runaway shipping on both sides of the US-Canadian border is in the making as the result of the establishment of a Great II'" Lakes Conference of the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO. The establish­ I .• ment of the conference, of which SIUNA Vice- Canadian coastal waters. The con­ The conference agreed to press ference made it clear that it in­ for legislation to promote both President Hal Banks was cluded in its definition of runaway- Canadian-flag and American - flag named chairman, first of its flag shipping not only the conven­ shipping, while going on record kind within the MTD, took tional runaway flags of Panama, "as condemning the use of the place at a meeting of Ameri Liberia and Honduras, but also the flags of Great Britain and the Ba­ can and Canadian maritime practice of Canadian ship operators hamas as a cover for runaway ves­ unions at the headquarters of in registering Canadian-owned ves­ sels and to further document in­ sels under the flags of Great Brit­ the SIU Canadian District stances of this and call them to the here on November 22. ain and the British-owned Bahama attention of the international labor Islands. movement." Montreal press, radio and TV representatives interview The primary targets of the Hal Banks, secretary-treasurer, SIU Canadian District conference are the operations Indicative of the determination It was generally agreed that the of the unions involved to take ef­ most pressing threat to the inter­ and SIUNA President Paul Hall on formation of Great of runaway-flag shipping on the fective action on the issue was the Lakes MTD Conference, Seaway, in the Great Lakes and in ests of maritime workers generally / presence of representatives from and to Canadian shipping at large i' virtually every waterfront union is the use of the British flag as a including the longshoremen, steel flag of convenience in Canadian workers, mates, marine engineers, coastai waters. England, British Colonies operating engineers, cement work­ As a result, the conference in­ C" ers, sugar workers, iron workers, tends to submit a strongl.v-worded carpenters, and, of course. Seafar­ protest tq,the International Trans- ers. Also in attendance as obser­ portworkers Federation against the Long Used As Ship Refuge vers were Canadian Teamster practices of utilizing British regis- Union representatives. (Continued on page 7) MONTREAL — The formation of the Great Lakes Conference of the Maritime Trades The unions present are involved in ship construction and repair, Department is sure to bring to a boil long-simmering discontent among American and manning of ships, unloading of t? Canadian martime workers over the use of the British flag and British colony labels to cargo and cargo transportation. Hospitalized escape Apierican and Cana-^~~ ^ The action to set up a conference dian wage scales. tional Steamship fleet to the flag though the vessels operate ex­ on the Great Lakes was an out­ The problem is not a new of Trinidad in the middle of a clusively in Canadian waters. growth of an MTD Executive Men Will one. In fact it dates back almost Canadian District strike. This move This practice is made possible by Board meeting in Chicago on Au­ ten years to the elimination of the was blocked by the refusal of West lax Canadian shipping regulations. gust 15 and 16 of this year. At Communist - dominated Canadian Indian seamen to scab on the Cana­ Unlike the United States, where that meeting, it was agreed to set Get Bonus Seamen's Union from Canadian dians. Subsequently the ships were domestic ship operators must use up a series of regional MTD con­ The annuai Christmas bonus for shipping. sold to Cuba but never were able American-built ships under the ferences to work on regional prob­ Seafarers in the hospitals, as well Once the CSU went out of busi­ to operate behind the Canadian American flag, Canada permits lems, one of them being the Great as SIU men receiving disability- ness and the SIU Canadian District District picket line. British shipping a free hand in its Lakes. pension benefits, has been ap­ r V started winning Improved condi­ Not content with transferring all domestic waters. Banks Named Chairman proved by the trustees of the SIU tions for Canadian seamen, Cana­ deep-sea shipping, Canadian ship ' This situation is the product The Montreal gathering chose Welfare Plan. dian shipowners started looking for operators, and American business­ of .the Commonwealth Shipping Hal Banks, secretary-treasurer of All Seafarers in the hospitals an easy out. Thanks to lax Cana­ men with heavy investments in Agreement signed in the 1930's, the Canadian District as pro tem who are eligible for the regular dian shipping rules, they could Canadian mining and transporta­ granting vessels from every part of chairman of the conference. Jo­ hospital benefit qualify for the $23 ] transfer to the British flag, or to tion started transfers of domestic the British Commonwealth the seph R. Chrobak, representative of Christmas bonus as well. Ths the flag of a British colony such shipping as well. The problem be­ right to trade in Canadian domestic the United Steelworkers of Amer­ bonus is paid to men who are in­ patients for more than one day as Bermuda and Trinidad. As a came particularly acute with the waters. ica, Local 5,000, was named vice- during the period from December result, Canadian deep-sea shipping opening of the St. Lawrence Sea­ One result of the policy has been chairman and Patrick J. Sullivan, 19 through December 26 inclusive. was largely wiped out. way, with the result that more and that British and West Indian sea­ secretafy-treasurer of the Great A famous example was the at­ more ships were being placed un­ men are being compelled to work In addition to the cash bonus, Lakes District, International Long­ eligible Seafarers will receive « tempt to transfer the, Canadian Na­ der British and colony flags even at British and West Indian wage shoremen's Association, was chosen scales while spending all their carton of cigarettes, as secretary-treasurer. Christmas Day is also an occa­ A working time in Canada. As its initial program, the con­ Talks With British sion for serving Christmas dinners ference declared as its objective in Union halls to Seafarers on the At a meeting of the Seafarers as "combating the runaway-flag SIU Safety Dep't Hits Section of the International Trans- beach and members of their fami­ vessels that are plaguing Canadian portworkers Federation in Janu­ lies in line with long-established and American-flag shipping on the tradition. ary, 1959, the problem of Canadian- Great Lakes," owned British shipping as well as Atom Peril; CG To Act British-owned shipping in Cana­ NEW YORK—An effort by the SIU Safety Department to dian waters, was taken up along with discussions of the Panlibhonco ward off "potentially-dangerous" situations involving radio­ flags. Discussions were held be­ active cargoes aboard ship is now being taken up by the tween Hal Banks, secretary-treas­ Coast Guard, Responding to-*""^ ' ^ urer of the Canadian District, and Sir Thomas Yates, head of the Na­ an inquiry from Safety Di­ training to handle them in an tional Union of Seamen of Great rector Joe Algina, a CG emergency anyway. Britain, as a result of which an headquarters spokesman "ftas prom­ The growth of offshore trade in understanding was reached recog­ ised to initiate further action. radioactive materials has also been nizing the Canadian SIU's right to The exchange with the Coast accompianied by specialized prob­ represent Canadian ships in Cana­ Guard followed a series of infor­ lems in disposing of atomic waste dian waters no matter what flag mal discussions held by Algina matter at offshore sites near major they might fly. with various industry representa­ US cities. However, in this in­ However, nothing has been done tives and officials of the Atomic stance, specially-buiit or modified since on the British side to impler Energy Commission, as reported vessels are used and they have ment that understanding and to earlier in the SEAFARERS LOG. generally operated in /relatively- protect Canadian seamen from the He cited the complete lack of sheltered coastal waters. inroads of the new runaways. "basic measures" to protect sea­ men on vessels carrying atomic .-i cargoes or "empty" containers that BULLETIN might still be radioactive. Court Rules Against Runaway Inflrest has centered on the HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, by a five problem due to the growth of off­ to two vote, has thrown out a bid by Universe Tankships, owners of shore traffic in atomic materials the Ltberian-fiar Ore Monarch, for an injunction against union pick­ during recent years. eting. The court characterized the runaway-flag registry as a fiction, Crewmembers unfamiliar with hoiding that the corporation was subjeet to US labor law and that the speciai labeling practices on the picketing was cieariy a domestic labor dispute. The ruling Is Conferring at Great Lakes MTD conference in Montreal such cargoes seldom know they » major victory for American maritime' unions In the fight on run­ are Anthony Anastasio (left) representing the Inter­ are aboard and, in addition, have away shipping. (See earlier story on page 7.) national Longshoremen's Association and Joseph Chro­ neither the equipment nor the bak, head of Local 5,000, Steelworkers Union. fir- Pare Foar SEAFARERS LOC Deeemlicr, 19M LABOR 4t 'ROUND THE WORLD 4 . Build Close Working Tie THE INTRODUCTION OF JET AIRLINERS on International travel routes has brought about numerous complications in determining the wage standards of working conditions of aircraft employees. Accord- A year of close collaboration between the SIU and Local 25, the Marine Division of iifgly, the International Labor Organization recently held a meeting the International Union of Operating Engineers, has paid off for both organizations. As a of civil aviation unions in Geneva which was attended by 14 unions of aircraft employees affiliated with the International Transportworkers result of the close working relationship between the two unions, both Local 25 and the Federation. One of the resolutions passed called for the ILO to 1I- SIU have made considerable"* develop retraining procedures for flight or ground personnel who have Si ning of seven agreements in the the Inland boatmen's field, particu­ been displaced by new technological developments. headway in their respective South and our progress in the larly on the Lakes and in the Gulf jurisdictions in the inland Great Lakes area find their origin area. Numerous opportunities for " ' t it boat field, both along the Atlantic in the cooperation extended by the joint organizing drives by the two FIFTY YEARS AGO IN TORONTO, a trolley motorman worked SIU," he declared. unions are now being explored. standing" up or not at all. Consequently, when in 1910 the Toronto Coast and on the Lakes. Railway Employees Union negotiated a new contract, it waS agreed The next step for Local 25 will And since Seafarers have qualifi­ It was just one year ago, on that the company would provide a seat for a motorman in a closed be the establishment of a branch cations to fill certain classifications December 17, 1960, that the trolley car. The agreement, the "Labour Gazette" reports, also office in the Seafarers' hall in on the dredges, SIU men have an newly chartered local moved into Philadelphia. opportunity for dredge employ­ provided for increases up to cents an hour, with the top wage the SIU's Brooklyn headquarters On the "SIU's side, the collabora­ ment whenever there are no quali­ scale being 25 cents an hour for men with three years' experience. as part of its plan to work hand-in- tion between the two unions has fied dredgemen available to fill 4" 4 4 hand with the SIU on organizing g^atly assisted In its progress in open jobs. DANISH SEAMEN ARE GOING OUT for a 40-hour week in their and otiier problems. current contract negotiations. The Danish Seamen's Union, repre­ Originally, the membership of senting approximately 7,000 seamep is asking for wage increases'and Local 25 was known as Local 825D, a penson fund similar to what other Scandinavian seamen enjoy. the dredgeman's branch, of Local Present wage scales on Danish ships are approximately $135 per month. 825, Operating Engineers. The lat­ 4 • 4 4 ter is a hoisting and portable TWO STRIKES OF LONGSHOREMEN in Brazil, and in Genoa, Italy, equipment union with jurisdiction took place recently. The Brazilian strike lasted just one day and re­ embracing the State of New Jersey sulted in a 35 percent wage increase plus holiday pay equal to five per­ and five upstate New York coun­ cent of annual wages. The 35 percent figure, while enormous on paper, ties. merely reflects the galloping inflation that has made Brazilian currency Started In 1940 nearly worthless. The Genoese longshoremen, on the other hand, The dredgeman's branch first weren't concerned about wages. What was bothering them was the came, into existence in 1940. Steve possibility that mechanical loading equipment would do aw^y with the •> Leslie, now president of Local 25, jobs of many of the men. They were looking for assurances that the was its original organizer in an men displaced in the process 'get adequate compensation. ' effort to bring representation to 4 4 4 men working dredging equipment CHRISTMAS BONUS PAYMENTS ARE STANDARD on West Ger­ from Maine to Maryland. man railways, and this year, the bonus for members of the German Rail- The new branch did well until waymen's Union has been increased. Married men will get 100 marks the late 1950's when, having organ­ (about $25) and single employees 80 marks (about $20). This is double ized the dredging operations in its or more than bonuses given last year. Bonuses of $5 will also be given ts jurisdiction, it .was unable to for each dependent child. ' progress further into the South 4 4 4 Atlantic and Gulf areas. BY COINCIDENCE, THE DAY THE SEAFARERS LOG published its However, because of the nature account of the earnings and working conditions of- Russian seamen, the of the dredging industry, with Soviet Government announced that it was issuing a new ruble. The in­ dredges going to all areas, the tention is to make the HCw Russian ruble worth, more than four old branch faced loss of employment Ones. On the international front, the revaluation of the ruble is de­ and competition from non-union signed to have propaganada effects, since it will be"officially rated as operations along the rest of the being worth more than the dollar. (For practical purposes it will be J coast. As a result, the membership worth about 40 cents). But it is the domestic impact of the new sought a separate charter with ruble that concerns Russian workers. In most of the Iron Curtain f* jurisdiction which would parallel Local 25 Operating Engineers President Steve Leslie

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'¥ KENNEDY GALLS FOR DOMESTIC SHIP AID; SAYS IFS ESSENTIAL By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS WASHINGTON—President-elect John Kennedy has gone on record calling for US as­ Toy Price Index Down sistance to the domestic shipping industry to restore it to a healthy and flourishing con­ r This Is a poor year for toy manufacturers but a better one for parents dition. and other gift givers. Trade reports indicate that toys are selling for The Kennedy statement "Prior to World War II there present indications; if we stand as much as 20 percent less than last Christmas. One reason; everyone was actually issued during the were some 700 vessels, including idly by. is selling toys—supermarkets, drug stores, discount houses, even cloth­ summer. It has now been tankers in these domestic trades, "Why is this? A basic reason is ing stores. printed as part of the record of representing nearly two-thirds of that, while the coastal-intercoastal For example, 20-inch vinyl dolls with rooted hair that were $10.98 the Senate Interstate and Foreign our total ocean freight capacity. vessels were away at war, the do­ last year now are $9.98. Twenty-piece sets of fiberboard jumbo blocks Commerce Committee in its report Today, despite our greatly ex­ mestic trade pattern was expanded with triangles and squares, are available for $2.65. Even such standard on the coastwise and Intercoastal panded economy, the important dry to absorb the services formerly playthings as the "Playskool Nok-Out Bench" (for ages 2-5) now sell shipping industry. cargo segment of these trades is rendered by these vessels. The for $1.79 and less. l-J-X In his letter, Kennedy called the but one-fifth, or less, of its 1959 tiade thus lost has never been re­ Toy retailers and wholesalers say in their trade papers that the domestic shipping industry "one of size. gained. Thus, postwar, the shipping biggest sales increases in playthings this year will be in: the great bulwarks of our nation's "Nor is that one-fifth in any­ companies found themselves with thing like good health. It is beset —Science toys, games and kits. defense" few cargoes to carry,-with old ships not only by adverse economic fac­ costly to operate, and new con­ —Dolls, particularly novelty dolls. The text of the Kennedy state- tors but also by throttling surface struction costs three to four times —Games of all types. is as follows: competition, aided and abetted to prewar rates. "The depressed condition of our Parents still need to watch out for durability and lasting play value, a disturbing degree, by adminis­ "If the domestic merchant fleet, country's once-flourishing domes­ trative complacency in the face of so strategic to the nation's econ­ and distinguish between genuinely educational playthings and com­ tic shipping industry should be a mercial toys which explore space-age developments but don't really alleged unfair competition from omy and to its defense, is to be matter of deepest concern to every­ other forms of competition. kept alive—and it must be—Gov­ teach anything. Some of the missile toys have been reduced sharply. one interested In our country's For example, a "superthrust" two stage missile set that cost $8.95 last "When the United States entered ernment must lend a hand. Steps economic progress and national World War II, the domestic mer­ must be taken to insure fair treat­ year now sells for $6^.66. But such rocket-gun and rocket-launcher toys security. have only fleeting play value, and add nothing to a child's development. chant fleet was taken over almost ment of domestic shipping vis-a-vis "Unless strong measures are in its entirety by the Government, other forms of transportation. One .widely-sold' rocket launcher sells for $8-$10 plus the extra cost of taken, promptly, to preserve and for military logistics purposes. In batteries. It blazes rockets 25 feet into the air. It has three rockets. Beyond that Government has real strengthen the dry cargo fleet now any future emergency the need for You can imagine how long they will last. and long neglected responsibility operating coastwise and inter­ such a fleet, ready at hand to serve to assist in' the formulation of a If you have a couple of hundred dollars to toss around, and we're coastal, one of the great bulwarks defense needs, would be equally rational overall transportation pol­ . sure most of our readers haven't or won't, you can even buy your child of our nation's defense may soon' urgent. But there may not be any icy in which intercoastal transport a real motorized car—this year's new craze. These cars go five to seven be a thing of the past. such fleet to requisition, from has a vital position." miles an hour, steer, reverse and brake. They cost from $159 in Montgomery Ward's catalog to one advertised in th% Wall Street Journal as a "real battery-powered child's car." This one is $249.50. But the manufacturer assures that it has a low operating cost. 51U Halls Thanksgiving Hosts But besides the. rash of rocket guns and launchers, there also Is an NEW YORK—Several thousand d increase in genuine scientific and educational playthings, such as astronomy, physics, ultra-violet, computer, weather and math kits. One Thanksgiving dinners were served r •authoritative source is the Science Materials Center, 59 Fourth Ave., At The Hall... to Seafarers, members of their New York 2, NY. It will send you a catalog which will also be useful families and guests in the tradi­ as a guide to kits, games and books recommended by teaching and tional holiday festivities conducted scientific experts. Among the kits and playthings the science center recommends are; at all SIU halls Thanksgiving day. Pre-Electricity Physics Lab., $5.95, for ages 10 and up. The headquarters hall in Bi;ook- lyn was host to some 600 diners, Static Electricity Lab, $2.95 (ages 11-17). who were served in the headquar­ —Mobile of the Planets (and their moons), $3.95, kindergarten up. ters cafeteria. Baltimore also —Magnetism Lab, $3.95 (ages 10-14). served over 600 guests. Dinners —Beginner's Microscope, $7.25. were served either in Union hall facilities in the various ports, or —D-Stix Construction Kits; juniors, $3; intermediate, $5. in outside restaurants where the —Math Magic, a game and kit, $3 (ages 9-14). halls are not equipped to prepare The center also recommends a new set of two books, "Intelligent and serve food. Man's Guide to Science," by Isaac Asimov, at $11.95, for high school The elaborate headquarters menu level and up. • •' i included a selection of appetizers, The Gilbert science and chemistry kits are considered good quality shrimp cocktail, choice of three and well-planned. A new manufacturer of science and chemistry kits soups, choice of turkey, ham or Is'the Porter Company, with kits priced competitively with the Gilbert roast beef, choice of seven vege­ sets. The Porter biochemistry set is especially good. tables, two salads, and an elaborate h . - Museums are a "good source for natural history and science materials, dessert list including three kinds such as rock speciments, shells, weather kits, etc. You can get catalogs of ice cream, three kinds of pie, and price lists from local museums and also from the Chicago Natural plain cake, plum pudding, fresh History Museum Book Shop, Chicago 4; American Museum of Natural fruit, nuts and candies, after din­ History Shop, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, and Museum ner mints and beverages. of Science and Industry, Jackson Park, Chicago 37. Similar dinners will be served Part of the group of over 600 Seafarers, family members on Christmas Day and, as is the practice in several ports, there will and members of affiliated maritime unions who attended be gifts and prizes for the children Thanksgiving dinner at headquarters are shown in head­ attending, along with a well-uphol­ MEBA Calls Conference quarters cafeteria. stered Santa Glaus. At The Hospital... On Maritime Problems Court Balks Plans for dealing with the problem of the US maritime # industry and its employees are being discussed today at a conference of maritime unions called by the Maritime En- Sea-Land gmeers Beneficial Associa-"^^ : BALTIMORE—A Federal court •>"' here has enjoined Sea-Land Serv­ tion, AFL-CIO. i of maritime unions to draft such ice, Inc., an SlU-contracted com­ Among subjects* to be taken a policy and to act on behalf of pany, from using Baltimore as a up at the meeting are the status the member unions in dealings collection point for Puerto Rico of the various collective bargain­ with the ship operators. The role cargo. of ship operators in working with ing agreements in the industry and Sea-Land, a Waterman subsid­ discussion of union policies on unions on industry problems is also due for examination. iary, has been trying to offer equal future bargaining. rates from Newark and Baltimore Under consideration at the meet­ . Also to come up for discussion on cargoes originating in the Caro- ing are suggestions that some kind are new approaches to runhway linas and Virginia areas, mostly to­ of national collective bargaining shipping, the Interstate Commerce bacco, canned goods and other policy be established across the Commission's regulation of the good revenue bearing freight. board on the part of all the marine domestic trades and similar mat­ After the Federal Maritime unions. ters, in light of the now adminis­ Board refused Sea-Land permission One suggestion being brought-up tration coming, up in Washington. to charge a single rate, the com­ before the meeting is the feasi­ At present, the contracts of the pany took over a forewarding firm bility of establishing a committee various unions expire at different which has been receiving all car^o times and run for different lengths in Baltimore, then transshipping of time. There have been proposals to ships in Newark at no extra cost. made In the past to establish single Bull Lines and Alcoa Steamship, expiration dates for all maritime both SlU-contracted firms, have agreements and the conference wyi Patients at the Staten Island Public Health hospital enjoy protested the move. The Federal discuss the advisability of such a assortment of fruits and other holiday delicacies supplied court issued the injunction while program. " by the SIU along with their Thanksgiving dinners. the FMB is studying the case. Pace Sb SEAFARERS LOG December, 19M

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(Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) November 1 Through November 30, 1960 Ship Activity Although ship activity was virtually identical with that Actually, as analysis of the figures shows, the class A Pay Sign In of October, total shipping dripped off in November in com­ "registered-on-the-beach"». total, 2,480, was less than 100 Off* Ons Trans. TOTAL parison with the previous month, with 2,394 jobs going off over the month's total shipping figure, showing that vir­ BettoR 4 3 7 the board in-all SIU ports. October had seen 2,682 jobs New York ... 42 5 43 90 • I tually every class A seafarer could have gotten a job if he 34 shipped and September 2,496. Philadelphia.. 10 4 20 wanted to throw in for it. In actual fact, tlie class A men Baltimore .... 14 7 22 4S In contrast to the decline of 288 jobs shipped, vessel took only 60 percent of the available jobs, and class C ship­ Norfolk — 17 17 activity was virtually identical with the previous month. Jacksonville ... 2 41 43 . iy. ping rose. In all departments, class B and class C men took A total of 471 ship calls were registered as compared to Miami ^ 1 1 7 9 a healthy number of group 1 and 2 jobs. In fact 90 group 473 in October. Payoffs dropped slightly, down to 115 from Mobile 10 4 0 2S 119, but most noticeable decbne was in the number of sign 1 jobs went to the lower seniority categories and 344 group New Orleans.. 12 10 38 40 ons, 50 as against 63, while in-transit calls actually rose. 2 jobs. Henston ^ 4 *9 80 Wilmington ... 1 13 14 The decline in the sign ons is probably the Jcey in the The most active port, by far, was New York, with 90 Son Francisco.. 4 5 10 19 dropoff of November jobs, although another factor could ships, 42 of them payoffs. New Orleans boasted the most Seattle 4 4 14 24 ii very well be the desire of crewmembers to make just one sign ons, ten, and Houston, as usual, had the heaviest in- TOTALS .... IIS SO 304 471 more trip before getting off for the Christmas holidays. transit load, 69.

I: )•;,P-.- DECK 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 GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP £:LASS 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 1 8 2 11 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 6 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 6 23 9 38 0 7 4 11 New York 43 108 19 170 1 19 27 47 34 61 20 115 6 11 17 34 3 3 4 10 115 34 10 159 93 149 42 284 3 26 39 68 Philadelphia 9 13 7 29 0 3 2 5 8,. 18 4 - 30 0 4 2 6 0 0 0 0 30 6 0 36 14 13 8 35 0 6 5 11 Baltimore 13 34 11 58 3 9 24 36 14 26 9 49 3 2 13 18 3 1 0 4 49 18 4 71 38 89 21 148 ' 5 19 37 61 Norfolk 4 11 3 18 2 4 2 8 3 4 5 12 2 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 12 5 0 17 11 25 5 41 1 9 11 21 Jacksonville 7 9 1 17 2 5 3 10 4 6 1 11 0 4 1 5 0 7 4 11 11 5 11 27 8 12 0 20 1 3 9 13 Miami 1 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 2 3 0 5 0 2 3 5 Mobile 27 30 9 66 0 3 4 7 12 26 , 4 42 0 4 11 15 1 1 4 6 42 15 6 63 36 42 8 86 0 2 5 7 New Orleans 27 65 22 114 1 7 18 26 *15 47 '13 75 2 12 14 28 0 4 5 9 75 28 9 112 60 84 25 169 2 11 19 32 Houston 46 74 14 134 1 32 31 64 31 61 21 113 6 27 28 61 1 4 3 8 113 61 8 182 38 40 20 98 5 15 10 30 Wilmington 5 11 2 18 3 4 4 11 4 6 3 13 5 7 6 18 3 1 0 4 13 18 4 35 8 11 0 19 0 6 4 10 San Francisco 18 31 8 57 4 21 6 31 17 25 9 51 7 10 8 25 1 4 9 14 51 25 14 90 23 15 1 39 1 9 3 13 Seattle 19 22 4 45 1 9 6 16 15 21 6 42 3 6 5 14 2 16 11 29 42 14 29 85 15 11 2 28 0 3 1 4 TOTAIS 220 417 103 ! "740 18 117 129 264 160 304 99 11 563 34 88 107 229 14 41 40 1 95 563 229 95 887 352 517 141 111010 18 118 150 1 286 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 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 2 3 5 0 3 0 3 0 4 4 8 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 8 2 1 11 1 9 1 8 0 3 1 4. New York 29 82 10 121 3 33 24 60 25 66 14 105 2 27 16 45 1 11 10 22 115 34 10 159 47 148 20 215 5 30 26 61 Philadelphia 6 18 1 25 0 6 8 14 2 14 6 22 0 5 7 12 0 2 Z 4 22 12 4 38 4 24 3 31 0 5 5 10 Baltimore 4 41 3 48 3 20 19 42 1 40 4 45 0 1^ 11 23 0 4 4 8 45 23 8 76 9 64 10 83 3 34 30 67 Norfolk 3 4 4 11 0 4 3 7 0 5 5 • 10 1 3 1 5 0 0 0 0 10 5 0 15 7. 18 4 29 3 8 7 18 Jacksonville 2 5 0 7 1 12 2 15 2 0 1 3 1 6 4 11 1 3 3 7 3 11 7 21 2 5 0 7 0 6 5 11 Miami 0- 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 4 0 4 0 1 0 1 Mobile'. 9 38 4 51 2 9 6 17 0 19 6 25 4 9 6 19 0 5 2 7 25 19 7 51 13 45 3 61 0 5 5 id New Orleans 17 49 8 74 S 19 17 41 18 56 10 84 2 14 10 26 4 2 12 18 84 26 18 128 34 55 8 97 3 23 22 48 Houston 18 60 4 82 4 30 26 60 18 50 17 85 4 33 20 57 1 14 5 20 85 57 20 162 37 38 5 80 3 10 7 20 Wilmington 3 10 3 16 - 0 7 2 9 4 5 2 11 0 11 2 13 0 3 3 6 11 13 6 30 0 10 2 12 1 4 3 8 San Francisco 7 28 3 38 1 15 3 19 6 27 8 41 2 9 4 15 0 5 6 11 41 15 11 67 8 30 2 40 0 6 1 7 Seattle 7 18 6 31 0 3 ;»• fir 8 U!I19 3 28 0 6 5 11 2 11 4 17 28 11 17 56 3 13 3 19 1 1 6 8 TOTALS 105 357 49 1 511 19 161 115 295 82 307 80 1 469 135 87 239 9 60 52 121 479 228 109 816 165 460 61 686 19 136 118 273 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered Oi 1 The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B 1 Pert GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 12 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 12 3 ALL 12 3 ALL \ Boston 2 1 4 4 0 2 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 3 7 15 2 1 2 5 New York 50 26 72 148 4 4 40 48 Philadelphia 28 10 57 95 2 2 29 33 2 0 7 9 95 33 9 137 85 38 122 245 4 7 50 61 Philadelphia 9 2 4 15 0 0 14 14 Baltimore 8 3 4 15 0 0 7 7 0 0 1 1 15 7 1 23 10 4 8 22 0 0 15 15 26 10 19 55 0 2 17 Norfolk 19 15 6 16 37 2 0 19 21 0 0 1 1 37 21 1 59 43 17 30 90 2 5 30 37 1 1 1 3 0 3 1 4 0 0 Jacksonville 2 2 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 13 5 5 23 2 8 8 18 8 2 3 13 1 1 3 5 1 1 1 3 . 1 1 2 4 1 3 16 20 3 4 20 27 13 3 2 18 2 1 2 5 Miami 4 3 4 11 0 0 1 1 2 3 > 0 Mobile .1 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 4 0 1 0 1 24 8 40 72 0 0 18 18 10 2 New Orleans 12 24 0 1 15 16 1 0 10 11 24 16 11 51 36 15 42 93 0 0 9 9 38 6 78 122 0 0 28 28 19 6 Houston 53 78 1 1 26 28 0 0 10 10 78 28 10 116 52 11 113 176 0 0 31 31 Houston 36 14 27 77 3 2 26 31 32 Wilmington 9 31 72 0 3 33 36 1 2 13 .16 72 36 .18 124 15 12 13 40 4 5 13 22 13 5 . 3 21 3 0 2 5 4 2 4 10 1 1 3 5 0 6 1 1 10 5 1 16 13 4 3 20 1 0 0 1 San Francisco 15 7 13 35 0 2 8 10 18 5 Seattle ...... 17 40 3 2 10 15 0 0 9 9 .40 15 9 64 12 4 13 29 0 0 3 3 12 2 10 24 2 1 10 13 12 4 14 30 1 3 9 13 0 2 18 21 30 13 21 64 4 0 5 9 1 0 3 4 TOTALS 238 87 275 1 600 13 17 169 199 149 51 215 415 U 15 156 L182 5 7 88 100 409 182 100 691 301 120 363 784 18 28 166 1 212 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 1 23 ALL 12 3 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 1/2 3 ALL A B C ALL 123 ALL 12 3 ALL DECK 220 417 103 I 740 18 117 129 I 264 160 304 99 I 563 34 88 107 1 229 14 41 40 95 563 229 95. 887 352 517 141 11010 18 118 150 I 286. ENGINE 105 337 49 I 491 19 161 115 I 295 82 307 80 I 469 "17 135 87 I 239 9 -60 52 f lZl 479 228 109 816 165 460 61 I 686 19 136 118 I 273: STEWARD _ 238 87 275 1^00 13 n 169 I 199 149 51 215 1415 11 15 156 I 182 5 7' 88 I 100 409 182 100 691 301 120 363 I 784 18 28 166 | 212 GRAND TOTAIS 563 841 427 J1831 50 295 413 j 758 391 662 394 12010 62 238 350| 650 28 108 180 fSlO 1451 639 304 2394 818 1097 565 12480' 55 282 434 j 771 Sip- j -^ • '• ,.• •• •• - • - ^ "•-"-..vJ: 1 * . D(t^einher, 1999 SEAFARERS LOG . Par* Sevw SlU Widow Receives Benefit Check LOG Wins V • SrU SAFBTX > Award In

Joe Alcina, Safety Director '60 Contest (Continued from page 2) Home Fires Do The Most Burning of a district, rather than an inter­ All the taik about on-the-job accidents, among seamen or any other national, the LOG competes with group, tends to make us overlook how most accidents occur. The newspapers put out by such unions truth is they happen righ^t home, from people fooling with electric as the United Auto Workers, the wiring, slipping in bathtubs, falling off chairs and makeshift ladders Machinists, the International or tripping over kids' roiler skates and toys. Brotherhood of Electrical -Work­ The best available figures show exactly twice as many accidents at home ers, and others of similar nature. as there are on the job, and that'iipplies to fatal accidents also. These The latest LOG victory keeps figures don't include car accidents, whieh are in a class by themselves. alive a string of successes in re­ The main point is that at home people are less cautious about things cent years. The SIU publication they'd be finicky about at work, and a lot of grief is the result. won the first prize for Editorial December is one of the worst months as far as home accidents are Excellence in 1955, and second concerned because everybody gets a little carried away by the holidays prizes in that category in 1956. and all caution is thrown to the winds. Fires are the big hazard 1957 and 1958. It also won a first because of excess paper from gift wrappings, home-made wiring on prize last year for the best feature Christmas trees and dried-up trees that go up in smoke from the least article, a first in 1957 for the best little spark. It's worthwhile considering all these things as Christmas front page and a first in 1956 for rolls around and to check out the house for possible hazards. the best editorial cartoon. There are all kinds of accidents at home that seem "impossible"— SIU Social Security Director Joe Volpian presents $4,000 The best year was 1956, when but they continue to happen anyway. A woman using a vacuum the union newspaper took six cita­ death benefit check to Mrs. Anita Keyes, at her home in tions in all. V cleaner that had a short in the wire was electrocuted right on the New York. Her husband, Newell, died aboard ship. living room floor where she stood . , . Bad wiring that should have In commenting generally on thb labor press entries, one of the been fixed long ago was the culprit ... A man building an outdoor judges, Ben Yablonky, had this storage s^ed had his two-year-old son In the yard with him and, when to say: he turned his back for just a minute, the baby walked under Mie Runaway Ore Ship "As one who has had a personal blade of the power saw and was killed ... involvcmicnt with the labor press Another type of home accident which constantly claims the lives ... I have been greatly impressed of many old people and the very young—children under five—is fire. with the professional quality of the On board ship there is fire and boat drill and in school there are Still Idle In Philly publications. They are generally .fire drills and the same should apply at home. la most homes, espe­ PHILADELPHIA—Operators of the runaway-flag Ore fine looking jobs, using attractive cially upstairs, there usually Isn't even a glass to put water in to formats, well-edited and well-writ­ throw on a fire. Monarch, which has been tied up here by an International Ma­ ten, indicating that the publica­ Another item that applies this time of year in many areas is that rine Workers Union picketline, have been rebuffed twice by tions are relying more and more most homes are equipped with storm windows which are a real hazard on professional journalists. f • when you start to think about it. When a fire starts, particularly on the Pennsylvania Supreme-t "The publications, too, display upper floors, there isn't a free window to get out of. A good idea Is Court. However,' the State other Ludwig bulk ore carriers a sense of responsibility to the en­ to leave one window free with just a screen in the bottom so that chil­ Supreme Court still has under have been diverted to Baltimore, tire community in dealing with dren or adults can get out. If possible, the window without the storm Mobile and other ports. Baltimore questions which go beyond the glass should be over a garage or shed so someone could climb out on consideration a petition by the ore tonnage has climbed by more primary problems of the individual it if necessary. operator, Daniel Ludwig, for an in­ than 600,000 tons as a result. Since union—questions.of war and peace, There are several Inexpensive but effective fire-warning alarms junction against the IMWU picket- the ore was destined originally for of unemployment and high prices, on the market designed just for the home: These gadgets are worth line. . the Fairless Works of US Steel, of health and old age—questions their weight in gold if they can give you warning about a fire. An­ north of Philadelphia, the diver­ which are the concern of all Amer­ other item should be in the home, the same as we have aboard ship The Ore Monarch, a Liberian- sion means a costly overland rail icans, not just those of union mem­ for fire-fighting, is a hose that can be quickly connected up so that flag ore carrier, has been tied up haul for the company. The Fairless bers. And in many cases the pub­ in the event of a fire there's something to fight it with. This doesn't in Philadelphia since October 1. Works were built originally on the lications deal more effectively with Previously, the Court of Commoh Delaware to take advantage of for­ mean everybody has to try to be a "hero" and do the job of the fire Pleas had upheld the picketline, such big questions than the daily department. It's just something "to think about as a little extra upholding the union contention eign ore sources and cheap run­ newspapers which ought to do • margin of safety for the whole family. that the matter properly belonged away-flag ore-carrying services. better job." in the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. Labor Practices Protested Form Lakes Croup The IMWU picketlines were put •ONE HAND FOR THE SHIP... up here in protest against the oper­ ator's unfair labor practices. After IMWU secured pledge cards from To Fight Runaways ONE HAND FOR YOURSELF' a majority Of the Ore Monarch's (Continued from page 3) "In the past two months activity crew, the operator came up with try as a runaway-flag operation. along this line has been acceler­ an "independent" union, the so- (See story on page 3.) ated to the point where it is ob­ called "Global Seamen's Union," MTD President Paul Hall, In vious, that if the trend continues set up in the West Indies. The calling the conference declared: it will mean the complete annihila­ IMWU charges that the crews of "It is becoming increasingly evi­ tion of this type of work for Amer­ Ludwig vessels were forced to sign dent since the advent of the St. icans and Canadians. cards in the "union." Lawrencq Seaway that steveddbing "The increase in transfers of Picket Boat i - eompshie^ shlp(^ repair companies, American and Canadian ships to In additioiF to the shoreslde ship chandleiy companies, shipping- British and Bermudian registry picketline — which is maintained companies and steel companies are makes it evident that Great Britain 24-hours a day—the IMWU also seeking ways and means of trans- /' and Bermuda are on the way to is using its own picket boat,:., Jej^ing-their transportation to for­ becoming fully-fledgdd flags of con­ As a result of the incketing, eign bottoms. venience countries." The conference was attended by 39 delegates in all, representing 27 unions, with a combined - member­ Runaway Vessel Wrecked; ship of over three million. Those present were: Banks; Steve Leslie, Operating Engineers; Crewmen Held 'Undesirable' Teddy Gleason, ILA general or­ TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—Six of the 14 crewmembers of ganizer; Patrick Sullivan, ILA; the wrecked Liberian freighter Fraacisco Morazan have been Raymond McKay, Marine Engi­ detained by the US Immigration Service as "undesirable neers; Chrobak; William HoCh, Op­ aliens." The detention came erating Engineers; Tony Anastasio, Somebody thought up the above safety slogan after their vessel wa? blown strong local Communist groups on ILA. many years ago and it's a good one— ptovided it's on the rocks in Lake Michi­ the waterfront and in the local Also Cal Tanner, SIU; L. J. Mc­ followed. Accidents on ladders are still a major gan by an early winter storm. labor movements. Laughlin, Canadian SIU; Ray Con­ The six men were then placed in ° Under the circumstances, the nors, ILA; J. Colozzo, ILA;- Earl cause of shipboard casualties^ While the use of Sheppard, Steve Cardullo, SIU; non-skid treods end non-skid paint helps, it also the custody of the ship's New York Union has pointed out, the Uniteci agent for transportation to New States could not count on the re­ Rod Hayes, and Jean JLariviere, helps to hang on with one hand. If the oad is too York from which they will leave liability of such crews in the event Teamsters; Bill Evans, State, Coun­ big to take in the other hand, make two trips and the country, of a national emergency.'- ty and Municipal Workers; Gaby save yourself one trip to the hospital. The incident tends to substanti­ " The "effective control" theory Cormier, Cement Workers; Lew ate contentions by the ^ SIU and put forth by the State Department, Carcione," Sugar Workers; William other US maritime union's that the holds that runaway-ffag ships Durkin and John Anello, Carpen­ so-called "effective control" policy would be available to the United ters; A1 Franz, Distillery Workers; An SIU Ship is a sham. The SIU has pointed States in any emergency. " The Melvin J. Greeley, Fire Fighters;. out that runaway-flag crewmem­ claim suffered a damaging blow Ralph Keller, Iron Workers; John bers, unlike seamen on American- when it was revealed recently that Mastiller, Roofers Union. r -:.; : . Is A Safe Ship flag ships, do not undergo any a considerable number of runaway- Port agents were also present i'X'X ^ screening. Many of them, in fact, flag tankers are now in the employ from the major ports of the SIU pvpSi'-" are recruited in areas which have of the Soviet Union. 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Systematic IBU Lakes Dredgers Boost Hospital^ In Pact Talks IV/#^ Surgical Benefits four Newly-Vion Cof§ DETROIT—The SlU-affiliated International Dredge !W(>rft- For IBU Men ers' Union is now in the process of negotiating first time con­ NEW ORLEANS—New and increased welfare benefits for tracts with four Great Lakes dredging companies whose members of the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union and their de­ sweep-raft men, range men**" pendents have been voted by the trustees of the Inland Boat­ and service truck drivers men's Union Welfare Plan.-^ ^ voted almost unanimously last Wilson Boats The increases, approved by tion on surgical benefits had not month for union representation. trustees at their regular been exceeded. In the four elections, the SIU monthly meeting, provide that In- Now, by separating the two affiliate took all but two of the Co To Yard "land Boatmen will receive benefits benefits, the plan, in effect, pro­ votes cast, climaxing a year-long and protection comparable to the vides a maximum combination of organizing campaign. superior conditions enjoyed by $480 in blood transfusion and sur­ For Season SIU deep sea men and their fami­ Preliminary Meeting gical benefit allowances, although NEW YORK —The IBU-manned lies. The new benefit schedules take the maximum would not apply in A preliminary contract meeting Wilson Line cruise ships Hudson effect as of December 1, 1960. all cases. with the four companies was held Belle and John A. Meseck have The President of the SIU- Hospital Costs earlier this month, at which time laid up for the season and are pres­ the union presented its contract ently undergoing repairs in Wil­ affiliated Dredge Work­ The major changes in. the new proposals for negotiation. Talks mington, Delaware, where the ers, Bob Jones (loft) dis­ IBU benefits schedule are in the are continuing in an effort to wrap Wilson Line has its headquarters, cusses re-vamping of Un­ area of allowances for surgery and IBU Tugmen Set up the agreements. according to the company. ion's office system with for various hospital costs. The The four companies involved in Both vessels, which operate on CPA Gerald Morrissey, at trustees, in acting on the increases, For Lakes Lay-Ups the negotiating are Dunbar and a seasonal basis only, are normally were recognizing the fact that there hq in River Rouge, Michi­ have been increases in hospital Sullivan, Great Lakes Dredge and in service from around Memorial gan. DETROIT—Reports from this Dock, Western Contractors and Day to Labor Day. charges and surgical costs since port indicate that many of the Aljon Kiewitt. They operate in The Belle regularly transports the benefits were first established members of the SlU-affiliated Tu8 and around Sault Ste. Marie, De­ racing fans from New York to a in 1956. The new surgical sched­ Firemen and Dredge Workers' troit and Port Huron. .special bus in Atlantic Highlands, ule provides for more generous al­ Unions are ready to dig in for the Since dredge operations are now NJ which provides them round- Bait. IBU « Notes lowances for most surgical bene­ winter and wait for the ice to shutting down, there is no pres­ trip transportation to Monmouth fits to offset such increases. thaw. sure for a hasty contract settle­ Park race track. The one-way trip In addition, the trustees of the Nevertheless, some dredge and Plan voted to increase the maxi­ ment. takes less than two hours and the Work Increase tug work is still going strong in track buffs are back to the ship mum amount allowed for hospital the last push to beat the big One-Sided Victories by seven at night for the return BALTIMORE—A pick-up in job extra charges to $175 from" the In the course of the year-long activity for IBU men in this port freeze. Merritt, Chapman & Scott jaunt. $100 provided in the original bene­ and Dunbar & Sullivan are work­ organizing drive, the Dredge Work­ The John A. Meseck caters to was noted during November when fit schedule. the IBU-contracted Arundel Cor­ ing their crews 24 hours a day, ers Union collected pledge cards families who wisli, to get away Blood Benefits from more than 95 percent of the poration rehired all of its 28 laid- seven days a week in hopes of com­ from the rigors of city life—for at A new benefit was also added by pleting their jobs. MCS hopes to workers employed at these firms. least-a day, anyhow. This boat off tugmen to turn them to on a The union originally sought pledge new channel being dug at the the trustees. It consists of an al­ work on the Belle Isle channel makes half-day trips from New deepening at least until the 22d of card recognition, which the com­ York to Rye Beach on Long Is­ Sparrows Point yards of Bethle­ lowance of a maximum of six pints panies refused. It was after this hem Steel Co. This Bethlehem job, of blood for transfusions, with pay­ this month, while D&S will con­ land Sound. Passengers debarking tinue its efforts on the Port Huron that the union sought and obtained at Rye can spend the day swim­ according to IBU representative ment allowed at the rate of $30 National Labor Relations Board Ray Herold, will provide IBU men per pint. ^ project until weather forces them ming or picnicking. to discontinue the job. elections in the four companies, When both boats go into lay-up with plenty of work for an esti­ Before the separate blood trans­ resulting in the one-sided election, after the season, IBU crews usually mated 18 months. fusion benefit was set up, reim­ Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has victories. take side jobs until spring. Many The job involves providing addi­ bursement for transfusions was completed work at Port Huron and covered within the surgical sched­ As a result of these latest suc­ of these Inland Boatmen are "reg­ tional facilities for ore-carriers. is through.for the season. This cesses the Dredge Workers now ulars" -and they usually keep in Most Employed ule at the rate of $20 a pint up to company's equipment has been a six pint maximum. However, moved to Bay City, Mich., for a job have approximately 95 percent of close touch with the company to Out of all the IBU members In the Great Lakes dredging compa­ ascertain the exact date the boats such reimbursement was provided which will get underway in the this port, there are only 10 cur­ only if -the $300 maximum limita­ spring. nies under contract. will go back into operation. rently out of work at the moment, says Herold and with prospects looking good for the month of IBU Tug Services Norfolk Ship December, when additional tugs tfSljbe used to handle ships in seasoiially high winds, it's felt that these men will be provided with ample work. Herold also reported that two IBU deckhands—Eugene Nickels, of Curtis Bay-Towing and John Zeller, of Harper Towing—were the recipients of IBU maternity beneiit checks. IBU men drydocked at the USPHS during, November were: Charles Berick and Joe McLaugh­ lin, both of Baker-Whiteley and Charles McNamee of Harbor. Tow­ ing Co. . ^

The activities of the varions inland boatmen, railroad marine tugs, deep sea tugs and harbor craft under the SIU banner are dealt with here. The SIU fam­ ily includes various groups of boatmen throughout the nation —on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, the Great Lakes and in Pacific Coast ports. These craft operate in support of deep sea shipping and sup­ plement such shipping in con- The IBU-contraeted tug Howard E; Simpson (Baltimore & Crew of IBU^ontracted tug F. M. Whitaker (Chesapeake lined waters. Their activities : & Ohio) prepares to assist freighter in getting underway concern ail seafaring trades. Ohio) slows down as it prepares to come alongside dock at Norfolk, Vai on Jersey side of river from which photo was taken. Peeember, 19i» SEAFARERS LOG 9»g» MM

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IBU RR Tugmen Hear Sen. Williams Norfolk IBU SlU Railroad Marine Petitions In Tugmen Approve Vote Three Fleets . NORFOLK—As the result of an all-out effort to organize the crcwn of tugboats from this city to Wil­ On New Constitution mington, NC, the SIU Inland Boat­ JERSEY CITY—The first important step towards upgrad­ men's Union has filed preliminary ing the union into a more effective instrument for member­ petitions with the National Labor ship, welfare has been taken by the IBU Railroad Marine Relations Beard for elections in three tug fleets. Division. Meeting at the-*- Other tugboat fleets in the vicini­ union's new headquarters in formal opening of the Division's ty are also targets of the organiz­ Jersey City here on Decem­ new headquarters at 99 Montgom­ ing drive with an estimated 1,000 ber 7, the membership unani­ ery Street here. tugboatmen involved In the various mously approved a proposal to The proposal for a referendum ports. hold a secret ballot referendum vote on the constitution was car­ Backing up the IBU's drive is on a proposed new constitution. ried after copies were distributed the 15-union AFL-CIO Hampton Similar meetings of the Divi- to all members present and the Roads Port Council, whose presi­ aion's members in Baltimore, Phil­ entire document was read and dis­ dent, R. L. Merrick, pledged his adelphia and Norfolk also approved cussed in detail. group's support to the campaign. the ballot. Copies of the constitution are More Firms Expected The meeting also served as the being mailed to all members of the The three companies which the Division who were not present at IBU has already requested collep- the various port meetings. US Senator Harrison "Pete" Williams (Dem. of New tive bargaining elections are: Death Of Boatman Among those who addressed the Jersey) addresses the first constitutional meeting of the Gulf Atlantic Towing, Norfolk; meeting was US Senator Harrison Gulf Atlantic Towing, Wilmington, "Pete" Williams (Dem.-New Jer­ Railroad Marine Division, SIU Inland Boatmen's Union, NC and Cartaret Towing, More- Saddens Philly IBU sey) who welcomed the SIU to the in Jersey City early in December. G. P. McGinty, Rail­ head City, NC. It is expected that PHILADELPHIA —Members of Garden State. road Marine Division director, shares the dias with Sen­ additional petitions will be filed the Inland Boatmen's Union in^ Williams pointed out that new ator Williams. The meeting, held in the newly completed at other companies as the drive this port were saddened last month port developments in Port Newark Railroad marine hall, was called to consider a constitu­ progresses. by the sudden death of Captain and Elizabeth are making New Jer­ tion for the division. Some of the tugs which are Lorin Livingston. The 43-year-old sey's waterfront increasingly im­ targets of the drive are under boatman, a veteran of World War portant in the\ Port of New York contract to the coal miners union, II, passed away in his sleep on pidture. Senator Williams said he the United Mine Workers, and the Veteran's Day,, November 11, re­ was aware of the good reputation men in the fleets involved are ports. IBU .representative Joseph enjoyed by the SIU as a trade un­ Houston T ugmen Wi n anxious for representation by a Trainor. ion, and he was pleased at the seamen's union rather than Dis­ Captain Livingston was a mem­ opportunity to attend one of its trict 50 of the UMW. Others are ber of, IBU Local 1700 in this membership meetings. Award for Safety non-union companies which have, port. He had Williams is a member of the Sen­ been free to operate without coh- •worked for P. F. ate , Labor and Public Welfare HOUSTON — Employees of the G & H Towing Co., here tracts over the past several years, Martin, Inc. (Mc­ Committee. 'were honored with a safety plaque in November at the com­ as a result of District 50 ih action. Allister's) since SIUNA President Paul Hall pre­ December, 1955, sided at the session. The Railroad pany's fourth annual safety award dinner at the Houston and prior to that Marine Division represents tug Executive Club. "* time had sailed deckhands on major eastern rail­ Some 92 members of the SIU G&H Towing Co., are taking more as a mate on roads, such as the Pennsy, Balti­ Inland Boatmen's Union, in and more interest in the safety MobilelBUSSow deep sea ships as more and Ohio, Chesapeake and the G&H fleet, were presented program. The interest of the crews a member of the Ohio, New York Central and New with individual safety awards for is paying off in fewer accidents, ... , Masters, Mates Haven, among others. Livingston He compiling a record of no time lost with company-union cooperation on Biit Sees Gain The SIU division won the right injuries during the period from this program proving successful. to represent the deckhands in a MOBILE — Though activity in ;was. widely respected here for his July 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960. the Inland Boatmen's Union has Ability both as a captain and as a series of bargaining, elections Executive Vice president of the under the Railway Labor Act last Four Tugs Honored company, Capt. J. G. Leech, is been slow here because of the win­ pilot. ter season, one IBU contracted Surviving the captain are his summer, in the course of which The tugs which made the safety vitally concerned with the safety of .the SIU routed the Teamster record are the Grampus, Mes­ the tug crews in his company as is company has expanded its activi­ wife. Peg; a daughter, Karen, and ties and another has added new two sons, David and John. Union, senger, Titan and the Propeller. the Union. Holding down crippling Representatives of licensed and un­ accidents is very much the business equipment, reports agent Louis licensed crews of the four tugs of the IBU,, and the company, also Neira. were present at the award dinner, eager to keep Che crews healthy, is Bay Towing & Dredging has Fact-Finders Reject Demands; IBU representatives noted that in pailneirship with the Union in broadened its work activity by mov­ each year the employees , of the thd safety prdgifAm. ing some of its dredges into Mis­ sissippi for a job. Mobile Towing & Wrecking has added a new 100- RR Tugmen Discuss Strike footer to its tug fleet, the Titan. ; JERSEY CITY—In view of a Presidential fact-finding IBU members receiving welfare i)oard's flat rejection of every demand of the Union, the Rail­ benefits in the port of Mobile last month included: Franklin Borsage r; road Marine Division of the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union is of Pilot Service Corp., $390 for now free to strike marine rail"* hospital and doctor care; Paul facilities from New York to steam and diesel tugs and ferries, Cazalas, Mobile Towing, $250 for Norfolk. and a pension and welfare plan hospital and doctor; R. R. Nunny, Railroad Marine Division repre­ similar to the SIU deep sea unions. of Curtis Bay, $200 for a materni­ sentatives are meeting with other The fact-finders' refused union ty benefit, and Marion J. Raley, unions of the NY harbor council demands for freezing the minim'um Mobile Towing and Wrecking, to consider a strike against the manning scale to that of Novem­ s^250 for hospital and doctor care. railroads. Rank and file members ber 1 of this year, A key request of, the unions have already author­ by the unions that they be consid­ ized strike action.. '' ered separately from the resf of - The fact-finders said that rail­ the railroad industry as marine road marijie workers should be workers was also flatly refused. subjiect to the moratorium on fur­ The RMD has asked for a gen­ ther wage increases until Novem­ eral 55 cents an hour wage in­ ber 1, 1961, as negotiated between crease; four additional paid holi­ Receiving the fourth annual safety award for G & H the roads and the , on-shore rail days, in addition to welfare and Towing Co. emplwees in Houston are IBU members :]«^rkefs. * , manning provisions. (1 to r) Dellwood Whitehead and Don P. Morgan, deck­ in their December 11 ruling the- Railroads involved in the, nego­ fact-fihders. rejeeted every single tiations include the Baltimore & hands on the tug Titan; Atma J. Hughes, chief engineer union demand, dhcltidirtg the RMD Ohio; Bush Terminal; Lehigh Val-, of the Titan; William H. McKenzie, master of the Titan; Send'em to tbe rej^iuests for: a general wage in­ ley; New York Central;»New Haven;, Capt. J. G. Leech, executive vice president of the com- ,. crease; improved vacation benefits; Pennsylvania, and New York Docks pany and Edwin Van Ben Thuysen, assistant engineer of LBG Iv-^v minimum mAPnitig scale for all Terminal. the tug Messenger. - '• ' • • •' •./''•:::V-V., - •' •• - • /;-r:;h.i r SEAIfARERS LOG Dcecmber. IMt

OPEN NEW Great Lakes Seafarers Try Out New Buffalo Hall SlU HALL IN BUFFALO >• ,1 BUFFALO—SlU members from all over the Great Lakes are now enjoying the fleluxe facilities of the spanking new SIU Buffalo hall. The hall, which is now officially ©pen to all SIU members, is locat­ ed at 735 Washington St. in the heart of Buffalo. The opening of the new hall was hailed as symbolic of the giant strides the SIU has taken in the last few years. This past period has seen Duluth, Alpena and Chi­ cago all Jicquire new SIU halls and First SIU member to register at the new SIU Buffalo hall •MMi completely refurbish them. (top photo left) is Richard Prenatt, OS. Holding Pre- ^ Frankfort Also natt's book is Buffalo Port Agent Roy Boudreau. En­ The port of Frankfort has also joying the old game of pool (top photo right) on the new joined the ranks with the purchase pool table in the recently completed SIU Buffalo hall are ^ vfe: of a building on the main street of ^ ' Frankfort, Michigan. brothers (1 to r) Charles Davidson, retired; Edward A. The Buffalo hall is a beautiful Lorenz, AB; James Mercer, OS, and William Rush, fire­ two story structure with the first man. The new two-story SIU hall in Buffalo (bottom '1^ floor serving as the central office photo right) is shown the way it looked when it greeted for the SIU. In this building will the first SIU men to officially open it to the membership. also be the SlU-affiliated Tug Fire­ The Tennessee red brick building is also the Buffalo, home men, SlU-affiliated Dredge Work­ er's Union, the International Long­ of the SlU-affiliated Tug Firemen and Dredge Workers. shoremen's Assn. and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn. The first' floor will also serve as a lounge and a shipping center for Seafarer Seafarers. Lakes Port Reports _____ V • ' * The complete remodeling of the structure inside and out began dur­ Rares To ing the summeifand was completed Alpena Jobs Rise bell on the-1960 season with the The Browning Steamship Co. has in time to handle the heavy flow news of vessels laying up. Ship­ advised the SIU that they will have of lay-up activity in the port. ALPENA—Shipping has risen in ping is just about finished for this the Sparkmam D. Foster on the The recreation facilities for all the past period, writes SIU Port year. winter run from Detroit to Toledo. Dying Son Agent Norman Jolicoeur. members include pool tables, writ­ Aubusson adds that he can be The Boland & Cornelius Steamship DETROIT—A Lakes SIU sea­ Huron Portland Cement Co. ing tables, television and shuffle- contacted anytime at the SIU Chi­ Co. is also planning to have one man was rushed off his ship |n a board. Members, who ai'e now lay­ plans a new kiln which will "be ship on this winter run. cago hall or at his home by calling losing race to be with his son. on ing up boats in the area, are tak­ the largest ever built here. A new Edison 3-7947. If no answer, sea­ sidewalk has been built for easier i i i ing full advantage of the equip­ men are asked to call Bdison his death bed. SIU deckwatch ment. accessibility to the boats at the 9-0776, the number of a special Frankfort In New Hall Francis Amend, who was taken off request of seamen who man the regording service. FRANKFORT—SIU Port Agent the SlU-contracted Norman W. Foy Teletype System Floyd Hanmer reports that the SIU - contracted Huron Cement (Browning) to be with his son Wil­ The new Buffalo hall, as well as fleet. new Frankfort hall at 415 Main Si. liam, 16 at the" University of Mich­ all the SIU halls in the Great SIU full books are being held at Cleveland Season Good will be occupied * this month. Lakes, is equipped with the SIU- Hanmer says that (he old hall has igan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, the Alpena hall for: Merton Lyons. CLEVELAND—SIU Port Agenf arrived too late. operated teletype system. Constant Walter Lancewicz, Thomas Men- been sold to a business establish­ and instantaneous contact with all Stanley Wares reports that Cleve­ ment. His son had passed away before ter, Robert Larsen, Wm. LaLonde, land's winter lay-up fleet now ports on the Great Lakes is main­ Herman Vogler Jr. and Edward Shipping was very good last he reached his bedside. tained for speedy membership numbers 15 ships with four loaded month with the Ann Arbor Num­ Brother Amond was told by the D. Woolverton. SIU pro books are with storage grain and at least service. being held for: Reginald Preston, ber 5 was back in operation. The doctors at the Medical Center a two more boats expected to lay-up Ann Arbor Railroad Co. changed few weeks prior to his son's death , A bright look during these cool V/allace Bonin and James Ash. here. Last year 25 ships were laid snowy winter days is that next schedule when No. 5 came out, and that William, a leukemia victim, t> if up in this port. it is believed that she may be put might live only a few months at spring, when the tulips start bud­ A recap of foreign shipping in ding in the newly landscaped beds out of operation and the rest of the most. Francis then returned Buffalo Enjoys Hall the area shows an approximate the carferries put back on the 20 to his boat. surrounding the building, the SIU BUFFALO — Between shipping total of 420 foreign-flag ships hopes to provide a sundeck with and 8 schedule. Tom For Worse out men on SlU-manned ships that steaming into this port in 1960. SIU member Irvin Donegan, coal- lounge chairs and umbrella tables However, his son took a sudden are still running and filling lay- Wares says that this last period passer off the Wabash, is in the for ail members. turn for'the worse Thanksgiving up jobs, reports SIU Port Agent has seen very little shipping in Detroit Marine Hospital and is Roy Boudreau, the port of Buffalo Cleveland as the end of the sea­ wished a speedy recovery. night and the hospital notified the The SIU Great Lakes Union has held its own. son nears. The 1960 shipping sea­ state police at Ypsilanti who in is. a nnigp of, by apd for Great Boudreau reports that there are son was very good for SIU mem­ i i ^ i turn contacted the Belle Isle Coast Lakes seamen which has made 19 ships laid up in this port with bers thanks to the SIU Job Secur­ Toledo Hosts Fleets Guard station. tremendous progress in advanc­ an average of one or two conUng ity Program which helped attract TOLEDO—SIU Agent Ed Do- The Coast Guard located ing the security of SIU men in each day. Thanks go to the new fleets to the Union. Iferty writes Lhat, as usual, this Amond's ship by radio in the sailing under its banner. One delegates 61 these ships for their i t' i port is a busy place during the lay Keweenaw l^terway, an inside of its greatest accomplishments cooperation in handling the lay-up up season.. By the end of this passageway across the Kewe.enaw is the seniority and job security crew lists. Detroit Thanks Delegates month about 25 SlU-manned ships Peninsula. system whicl^ gives Lakes men SIU members are now enjoying DETROIT—With the laying up should be laid up in thO Toledo State Police Help protection mider the seasonal of many, of the SlU-manned ships and Sandusky area. the facilities of the new hall with the steamer Foy wais scheduled shlpp^g set-up. Once confined many of the crewmembers off the for the winter, Headquarters wishes These include ships of the SIU- to inland waters, activities of various ships laying up coming in. to thank eveiv delegate aboard all crewed Reiss, Hutchinson, Gart- to pass the Hancock lifeboat sta­ tion and arrangements were made SIU men on the Lakes now have The new hall has also been ships for the fine job they have land, Huron Cement, Steinbrenher greater signif<'c.-?zice with ,tbe done in carrying out their duties and Tomlinson fleets. to take Brother Amond off his-boat Ii|, visited by almost all of the labor and rush—him via state police to •ffU:.. .opening of the Secway and its representatives in the area, as delegates. Many of the seamen from non­ The Jack Dalton; formerly union ships are visiting the'SlU- Ann Arbor. Amond-'s wife' was tfjVr use by hundreds of deep sea i. ships. The Lakes haVe become owned by the Detroit Atlantic Navi­ cqntracted boats and the SIU, hall. waiting for; him ot the medical Anjerlca's fourth seacoast and Chicago Lays Up gation on the piggy-back run be­ Doherty again extends a welcome center. ; developments there are of in­ CHICAGp-^The daily calls to tween Detroit and- Cleveland, has hand andean open dpor to. all non­ The SIU Wishes to-express their creasing interest to all men in agents of steamship companies gone out of busin.ess. Bonus checks union ' seamen to stop-in .at the deepest and heartfelt' sympathy .to the SIU family of unions. here, writes SIU representative have been mailed-out to the ship's Toledo ball and discuss the SIU's BrothOr Amond and his wifO for S66tfie Aqbusson, are ringing the epewmembers. ' v'. jprograiti,,, •' thfi'loss of their• son.' Ir:;: ' A - v.. -iy, IV •T-w- , -•/ -.Ai '•-• December, 19M SEAFARERS LOG Pace Elerea

Non-Union Enjoying SIU Job Security SIU WAGES HARD FIGHT P-M Crews FOR OHIO JOB BENEFITS CLEVELAND—Legislative opposition to extending unem­ ployment compensation 13 weeks on an emergency basis in Hard Hit Ohio may prove to be indicative of what the SIU will face in its upcoming fight for unem-"^ : DETROIT—Lacking the benefits of a union-negotiated industry­ ployment compensation for wide seniority program, non-union Great Lakes seamen who are SIU Signs seamen who man the Pickands- affected by the Ohio law, when the Mather Great Lakes fleet were Ohio legislature opens this hard hit by uiiemployment this January. past season. 'Only six of the com­ The SIU has based its fight for Roen To pany's 31 ships were working. Ohio seamen on the fact that the Crews of the remaining 25 vessels seamen of all companies located were idle for the greater part of in Michigan, New York and other Contract the 1960 shipping season and had states receive jobless pay during DETROIT—The crewmembers no prospects of shipboard employ­ the winter and only Ohio seamen of the Roen Steamship Company ment. With the majority of Great Lakes freighters laying up for or seamen employed by Ohio- are now under the full protection Consequently, the SIU Great the winter, the SlU-contracted Sparkman D. Foster owned companies are denied this of the SIU with the formal signing Lakes District has again alerted (Browning) is another example of SIU job security. The right. by their company of an agreement the Pickands-Mather men to the Foster along with another SlU-manned ship of the Boland Blocked Proposal with the SIU for an interim con-, need for a }ob security program. & Cornelious line will operate all winter between Toledo In a special session of the Ohio tract. Job Security Program and The SIU pointed to the protective legislature which began in Colum­ the welfare trust agreement. seniority and security features en­ and Detroit. Part of the Foster's crew are (stooping from The contract was signed upon the left): Henry Howard, porter; John Raubolt, OS and bus on November 28, the 11 Re­ joyed by SIU seamen sailing on publican senators present voted company recognition of the SIU union-contracted ships in a letter Jens Ronning, wheelsman. Standing from the left: Pete against the extension of unemploy­ wlien the union presented pledge 'to all P-M men. Fagan, porter; Art Chenoweth, AB; Clare Otis, deck- ment compensation 13 weeks on cards signed by a majority of the Reminding the P-M crews that watch; Harvey Peck, oiler and Lawrence Kiley, 2nd cook. an emergency basis. The 11 dis­ Roen crewmen. it had promised to serve as a senting votes blocked the emerg­ The agreement, which covers ap­ watchdog to check on the com­ ency measures which cleared the proximately 70 crewmen who work pany's promises to its employees, Senate Commerce and Labor Com­ on tugs and barges, gives each sea­ the SIU said it would-continue to mittee. man the full benefits and protec­ fight for economic security and SIU Great Lakes tion of the SIU's program. This benefits for P-M men. The 20 favorable votes from the includes job protection among all senate Democrats were two shy of The ,SIU had pledged to this SlU-contracted fleets in the pro­ the two-thirds majority needed to fight in light of the fact that 220 gram. Year-End Review pass the bill. P-M men had voted for union rep­ Roen Steamship Co., which has resentation and that a shift of just DETROIT—^As the SIU crewmembers who are now com­ The emergency bill would havd its headquarters in Sturgeon Bay, 50 votes would have given them pleting lay up in preparation for the winter look back at the become effective immediately and Wis., has become the 21st company the union protection they needed. 1960 season, they have eyery reason to be proud. covered those workers who. had to sign the SIU's Job Security Pro­ Instrumental In the unfavorable The past season was a ban-^ exhausted their compensation and gram since the program was first outcome of the election had been were still jobless before April 1, initiated. ner year for the SIU and its family. The Tug Firemen's Union 1961. the company's false promises of and the Dredge Worker's Union security. members. It was a year which GOP Won Rule saw five Great Lakes companies received charters from the SIUNA At the time of the voting, P-M's In last month's election the Re­ manager George Callahan prom­ join the ranks of the SIU. The on May 1 of this year. Clark Milwaukee seamen of Pioneer, Buckeye, Stein­ The Unions, although under publicans recaptured control of ised that all men in the P-M fleet the Ohio Legislature by margins of were protected by seniority and brenner, Boland & Cornelius and separate charter and completely Roen Steamship Co. all became a autonomous with their own con­ 84-55 in the House and 20-18 in were to be placed on jobs aboard the Senate. The GOP gained two Crew OK's Pact other vessels if their ship laid up. part of the Great Lakes District. tracts, constitutions and electsd The SIU crewmembers of the officials, are constantly working seats in the Congressional races to The company also promised that This was the year the member­ tanker Clark Milwaukee have rati­ ship adopted by secret referendum hand in hand with the SIU in give the Republicans a 16-7 edge officers were to be bumped back in the Ohio delegation to the fied a new agreement recently vote certain changes in its con­ haifdling problems that affect all negotiated with the Clark Oil & ) only on the basis of seniority and unions in the maritime field. House of Representatives. would not displace unlicensed men stitution. The SIU members also Refining Corp. Once the formal conducted its biennial election of Last, but not least, the SIU's The SIU has gone on record signing is completed by the com­ f with more seniority. floating library, which meant books and pledged that it will not .stop •The SIU's letter pointed out that officers to serve the membership pany the agreement will go into of the District. for the membership, were passed fighting until all Great Lakes sea­ effect. The agreement covers all i' ' a quick look at the figures show out on all SlU-manned ships by men effected by this law are al­ that with the mid-season lay-up of The addition of new halls in unlicensed men of the tanker Clark Duluth, Alpena, Chicago, Buffalo, the boarding patrolmen. lowed to collect unemployment Milwaukee which operates in Lake 17 vessels approximately 425 men during the lay up period. were immediately out of work with with Frankfurt to come, have added Michigan. no place to go in the P-M fleet. to the SIU's reputation of being Helping the SIU in its upcoming The new agreement spells out Add to that the bump back of of­ the "best membership Union on fight is Senator Frank King of numerous contract benefits includ­ ficers to the seven operating P-M the Great Lakes." Toledo, who led the fight in the ing wage adjustments, welfare plan ships and at least 100 or more un­ The SIU in 1960 successfully Seaway senate, and Representative Carney extension and the protection of the licensed P-M seamen are out of protest-picketed the "runaway" of Trumbull, who led the past fights SIU's Job Security Program. jobs. foreign flag ships that are coming in the House. These legislators will The signing of the Job Security For 1960 over 525 Pickands- into the Great Lakes and reducing Shipping again be fighting for all Great Program makes the Clark Oil Corp. Mather seamen were jobless by the Great Lakes seamen's jobs. The Lakes seamen in the house and in the 20th company to become part protest picketing by the SIU has the senate this January. of the program 1 . mid-season During the actual, shipping sea­ forced the issue in the spotlight for son, when the majority of the P-M legislative attention. Is Ended seamen were on the b^ch, the un­ The past year saw two Unions MASSENA, NY —The St. Law­ licensed seamen of Buckeye, Pi­ become part of the growing SIU rence Seaway has closed its locks !> • and canals to shipping, ending a Great Lakes Shipping oneer, Steinbrenner and Boland & V i Cornelius, who laid up ships, con­ busy 1960 shipping season. tinued sailing, thanks to the SIU. SIU Great Lakes The Seaway canals closed Decem­ Nov. I,-Nov. 25,1960 ber 1. Closing was o'riginally sched­ 1^ Under the seniority provision of PORT DECK ENGINE STEWARD the SIU where a man's vessel is Union Halls uled for the last day of November, TOTAL HEADQUAKTERS but the Seaway Authority post­ ::i •'. laid up, he can take a job with an­ Alpena 17 19 8 44 10225 W. Jefferson. River Rouge US, Mich. poned the closing for a day. other company in order to con­ Vinewood 3-4741 tinue working. At the time he is Fred J. Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer The Welland Canal in Canada, Buffalo 23 8 10 43 called, on the basis of his seniority Stanley F. Thompson. Asst. Sec.-Treas. between Lake Ontario and Lake ALPENA 127 River St. Chicago 11 12 1 with his own company, he can then Erie, closed its locks to shipping 24 •'4-y Norman Joiicoeur, Agent. .Eimwood 4-3616 -leave the job he has held in tiie BUFFALO, NY 735 Washington St. December 15. The Sault Ste. Marie Cleveland 20 22 Roy J. Boudreau. Agent TL 3-9259 8 50 ' '\l meantime and return to his orig- Canal was closed to shipping on \V. CHICAGO 9383 Ewing Ave. -inai company. South Chicago. III. December 12. Detroit 65 65 20 150 The SIU expressed its regret SAginaw 1-0733 Seafarers who transit the Sea- CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25 St. Duluth 22 9 3 34 that the men of P-M did not be­ Stanley Wares. Agent MAin 1-0147 •way next year will be greeted by come a part of the SIU as they DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. a new sight when the Ogdensburg- Frankfort 36 39 33 108 . would undoubtedly all have worked Gerald Westphal, Agent..RAndoIph 2-4110 Prescott bridge across the St. FRANKFORT, Mich 415 Main St. and enjoyed no loss of wages dur­ Address Mall to: P.O. Box 287 Lawrence River opens. The bridge Toledo 24 4 4 32 ing the time when they have to Glen Beaucock. Agent ELgin 7-2441 site is a few miles up river from TOLEDO 120 Summit St. TOTAL 220 173 87 J 483 earn a living for the iay up period. • / • .. • ' CHerry «-mi the Iroquois lock and dam. m Vacc Twelve SEAFARERS LOG December, MM Sea Level idled By US Embargo On Cuba 5' •^' Textile Union Fights 5' Jailing Of Strikers NEW YORK—The Textile Workers Union of America has called upon the organized labor movement to assist it, in securing the release of eight of its members sentenced to prison forlor "their"tneir role in thef two-year-old strike against the local press and state and local the Harriet and Henderson officials, the union charged. Cotton Mills of Henderson, NC. "They were tried net so much The eight men, including Boyd for conspiracy," the resolution de­ Payton, the union's regional direc­ clared," as for what has been hap­ tor in the C^rolinas, three oth^r pening in Henderson, NC, since officers and four rank-and-file November 17, 4958 . . . when the • members were sentenced to from bitter struggle of nearly 1,100 i--. •; two to ten years at hard labor on member.? . , . again.st union-bustlng I the ground of an alleged "con­ began. They were convicted in line spiracy" to dynamite company with a theory that the quickest, and property. most effective way to undermine "This charge is a sham," the the resistance of the Harriet and union resolution declared, "since Henderson Workers was to jail the Formerly manned by Seafarers as the old Seatrain New Orleans, the Liberian-flag SS the alleged 'plot' was fostered and leaders of their strike." Sea Level is now idle. The vessel, which had been running between New Orleans nurtured by an agent provocateur The SIU, along with other un­ and Havana, was the target of SIU organizing. Charges against her owners are still in the hire of state authorities, who ions, has heeded the Textile Work­ pending at the National Labor Relations Board. The US embar"go on Cuban trade also happens to be an ex-convict ers call for flnancial assistance. caused the lay-up. with a grudge against the union." The TWUA pointed out the fol­ lowing in connection with the case: • There never was any dyna­ Sea Level Hung Up By Cuba Beef mite attempt, despite the "deliber­ Want Lecture? ate prodding" of the provocateur. NEW ORLEANS—While the National Labor Relations Board is still considering unfair • The trial was "fundamentally labor charges filed by the SIU against runaway operators, one of the companies involved unfair" in that the Indictment was Bridges, Hoffa handled with "extraordinary haste" is apparently going out of business. The company is the West India Fruit arid Steamship, and tried before a special judge by operators of the SS Sea Levels- : special prosecutor. in the Cuban trade. rights of the crews for union rep­ course, will have considerable • The entire trial took place in Are Willing The Sea Level lay-up is at­ resentation and rule against the bearing on the rights of US unions an atmosphere of hysteria whipped SAN FRANCISCO — Harry tributed to the recently-announced unions on the basis of US policy. to organize runaway-flag ships. up against the union by the boss. Bridges, president of the West US embargo on trade with Cuba. The intervention of Government Coast longshore union, and James. The Cuban grew of the ship was agencies in support of the policy of Hoffa, head of the Teamsters, laid off on November 12, and the so-called "effective control" has Voyager's Popular Radio Man are making joint platform appear­ office force of the company has been denounced by the SIU as an ances. The two union heads, who been notified of layoffs coming on attempt to bring political pressure have made much of a mutual aid December 31. to bear on the legal issues befmre agreement in recent moaths, spoke Meanwhile, there is no word the Labor Board. at a forum* in the Oakland Civic from the NLRB on the long-pend­ Auditorium on Monday December ing charges of the SIU in this case, The Sea Level is well known to 12. Their topic was "Wherp is the in the case of the SS Yarmouth, SIU oldtimers as the old Seatrain labor movement going?" the SS Florida and in the case of New Orleans—the original SS Sea- .train. After being sold by Sea­ The forum wound up as a blast the NMU charges against runaway- against the AFL-CIO's policies'arid flag United Fruit ships. As had train, she was subsequently trans­ ferred foreign and put on the New activities, indicating joint action been previously reported, the US against the Federation. State Department and Defense De- Orleans-Havana run. p tment have both intervened in During the worldwide five-day The forum was prominently ad­ the case on behalf of the runaways, boycott of foreign flag shipping by vertised in "The Dispatcher" offi­ c;!lling on the NLRB to ignore the the International Transportworkers cial publication of Bridges' union. Federation, the Sea Level was one The Bridges-Hoffa alliance has of the ships hung uP in New Or­ taken the form of joint contract"" Don't Send Your leans. Subsequently, the SIU suc­ negotiations in the warehouse field Baggage COD ceeded in oranizing a majority of on the West Coast. In Hawaii, the ''salarers are again warned the Cuban crew and petitioned for ILWU is invading the construction not to send their baggage COD a Labor Board election. The own­ field and is warring on the Operat­ to any Union hall. The Union ers' response was to fire 26 of the ing Engineers' rights to discharg­ cannot accept delivery of any crewmembers, later restoring them ing bulk cargo vessels such as the baggage where express charges to their jobs. Crewmembers sub­ Kaiser gypsum carriers. have not been prepaid. mitted sworn affidavits to the Other sections of "The Dispatch­ Men who send bcgage COD NLRB to the effect that they got er", in which the forum appeared, to Union halls face the prospect their jobs back only if they signed dealt at great length with the Cu­ of having to go to a lot of trou­ statements revoking their SIU Radio officer Herb Semon on the Steel Voyager Was given ban situation, with the publication ble and red tane with the Rail­ pledge cards. It was then that the unanimous vote of thanks from crew for helping them going down the line with the Cas­ way Express Co. SIU filed the pending charges. forget the heat on Persian Gulf run. Semon piped World tro version of that country's diffi­ Disposition of the charges, of Series broadcasts and musical programs during the run. culties with the United States.

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Vacation Pay Tops $15 Million MOBILE—One of the largest SIU vacation checks ever paid- - helped boost the total of SIU vacation payments over the $15- million-mark last month. Seafarer Demetrios Miofas was the man on the receiving end> Joseph Voipian, Soeial Security Director when the check .was issued later, in March, 1960, the annual here recently for $789.26. rate of vacation pay was increased Labor Sets The Pace For Progress to $400 from $360. It is a fact of our economic.life, though only grudgingly admitted in Miofas earned the. king-sized Today's top annual vacation pay­ some quarters, that the growth of the modern American labor move­ vacation payment when he signed ment has been the greatest single force in promoting prosperity for off after a 29-month-8tint on the ment of $400 is almost three times the $140-figure the Plan all our people over the past three decades. Thus, today, with the talk SS Warrior. It represented aimost of another developing business recession, it is the organized labor three months' base pay for his started operations with back in 1952. The rise came in five steps; movement again spearheading change, and new social legislation, to rating of bedroom steward. The cope with the problems of poverty and joblessness. payoff, at Portland, Oregon, also to $176 yearly in 1954, $244 in 1955, $260 in 1956, $360 in 1958 The newly-elected national administration, which formally takes led to his first vacation since mid- office on January 20, 1960, appears to recognize the challenge of 1938, largely due to his alien and $400 this year. these problems. These are nowhere near the same as those pictured status. A. native of Greece, Miofas First of its kind in the. industry, had been unable to get any time the SIU Plan pioneered by setting by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, at the time of his second off because US Immigration offi- up a centralized fund to assure inauguration, when he spoke about one-third of the nation "iil-housed, ciais would not grant him shore every Seafarer a paid vacation no iil-clothed, iil-fed." But these very conditions stili exist in some leave for the usual 29 days. matter how many ships or com­ Seafarer Demetrios Mio­ measure for a number of Americans. panies he works for during the fas (left) receives $789.26 What it is important to recognize is that the rise of the labor move­ , T'his problem was overcome year. The companies are the sole ment, and its basic concern over wages, working hours, occupational when Miofas married the former SIU vacation check from contributors on. the basis of the . Mobile SIU Agent L. disease, safety hazards, holidays, vacations and all the rest, promoted Katherine Gevros of Mobile a number of men they actually em­ general prosperity and economic growth. Before labor as an organ­ short time ago and, when he re­ ploy each day. This guarantees an Neira. Recently married, ized force entered the picture in those erratic days, the social worker ceived his vacation check, the adequate reserve to cover benefits he'll use cash for honey­ and the social agencies were preoccupied in working with individuals happy Seafarer announced he was for each man at all times. * moon in New York. and individual problems. They were busy working on small bits and using the money for a honeymoon pieces of the overall issues confronting a particular family or an in. New York, isolated section of a larger community. And while this was going on, The $15-milIi6n-milestone for poverty grew and grew all around them. the SiU Vacation Plan was It was the labor movement which came in, its leaders raw, inex­ reached right "on schedule," as it Labor Eyes New Congress perienced, uneducated and fresh from the firin^line on the job, to had been foreoest in the SEA­ press for urgent improvements on a broad national scale. Given the FARERS LOG last February. The right to bargain coileetively, to strike and to fight to raise the con­ story at the time noted that the ditions of hundreds of thousands and, later, millions of workers and Plan was paying out benefits of For Welfare Bill Action their families, they helped produce the vast changes we see all around $200,000 monthly. One month WASHINGTON—A brightened prospect for action by the us. It is impossible to calculate where we would be today without such progressive laws as the Social Security Act and its benefits for incoming Congress on key social welfare measures has, been older people, the unemployed and others with little income or none 'Stern Line' forecast by the AFL-CIO Committee on Social Security. V/ith at all, the change of administration" ..Again, who was in the forefront of the battle for minimum wage minimum tax on all employers in legislation, improved wage-hour laws, job security codes and regu­ in January, labor observers lations to supplement hard-won gains on the strike lines and at the Still Tied are hoping for passage of a order to spread the cost of bene­ fits more fairly. bargaining table? Many take these benefits for granted today; they $1.25 minimum wage bill, liberal are treated like something out of "ancient history". Yet we cannot To The Sea medical care program for the aged, Attending the session as an ob­ forget what these changes have come to mean to all of us and to a Federal aid to education measure server was Joe Voipian, director of the nation; they are the foundation on which we must build and re­ . MOBILE—One of the first 20 the SIU Social Security Depart­ Seafarers to qualify for SIU disa­ and amended Social Security leg­ build again for the future. islation. ment. Members of the AFL- bility-pension benefits ' back in CIO committee include SIU Presi­ (Comments and suggestions are invited by the Department and can 1953, Pete Henderson is still a rela­ Analysis of the make-up of the dent Paul Hall. be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) tively hale and hearty oidtimer new Congress indicates safe going with the list now crowding the 200 for these programs in the Senate. figure. The House is rated "close" but Known best to his shipmates as White House Influence is expected "Stern Line Pete," Henderson re­ to narrow the gap. 'Welfare Always Gets Its Man...' cently passed his TSrd birthday but The formal meeting of the AFL- still recalls the highlights of a 52- CIO committee was held in ad­ NEW YORK—^Routine benefit claims sornetimes give SIU representatives and Welfare year-iong seagoing career that he vance of the designation of a new Plan staffers a merry chase, although a little diligent detective work sometimes turns the began as a boy of 13 in his native Secretary of Health, Education and Norway. The sail­ Welfare by President-elect John F. trick. ing ships were In Kennedy. Connecticut Gov. Abra­ Such was the case with a ror in misdirecting the papers. gether again (see photo below), their heyday ham Ribicoif has been named to dependents* benefit claim by Union and conapany trustees and live, in a new home at West then . . . "and a this Cabinet post, subject to Sen­ Seafarer Jimmie Pederssen, agreed that this was cause to waive Islip, Long Island, NY, An SIU seaman's life in ate approval, replacing Arthur S. but the check finally found the the rules. man since 1951, Pederssen ships those days. was Flemming. man. The Pederssens are now all to­ as a chief electrician. the closest thing Gov. Ribicoff echoed Sen. Ken­ The story, starts' out with the to slavery." He nedy's strong support for Federal hospital confinement of Peders- ; / put eight years aid. to education and a broad pro­ sen's wife for a short time in May, in on sailing ves­ gram of medical care for the aging 1959, and it's there that the "rou­ Henderson sels before shift­ in a statement last week. He said tine stuff" ends. Fully eligible for |1 ing over to steam. action in these two areas would be SIU benefits, Pederssen was at sea "The sailor today has the life we the first order of business when he most of 1959 and the early part of could only dream about then," he takes up his new post. 1960. It developed,, however, that points out. An old-line maritime A broad cross-section of vital the hospital had misdirected its unionist, Henderson shipped with welfare legislation was explored by bills and claim forms to another the old ISU long before the '21 the AFL-CIO group when it met union, and a chain of correspond­ strike that eventually led the climb here on November 22. There was ence began. to today's strong unions and the particular concern over develop­ When the SIU Welfare Plan conditions now commonplace for ments in the field of unemploy­ finally got the misdirected" papers, all Joc'sle hands. ment insurance, with joblessness'in it attempted unsuccessfully for two He joined the SIU in 1941 at the US continuing-to rise. months to contact the family, the Port of New Orleans, shipping One item discussed at some length which had moved and left no for­ out in the deck gang until poor was the "experience rating" fea­ warding address. Pederssen him­ health forced him to call it quits ture of the unemployment system, self was still at sea. \'\ " •' just eight years ago last week. wliich provides tax rebates for em­ Once he returned, he had a - .i ^ " Henderson has no family today ployers whose companies show low brand-new claim covering hospital except the sea, the ships and the job turnover. In labor's view, "ex­ benefits for his wife during 1960 shipmates he sailed with for many perience ratings" generally defeat and the Plan in turn contacted him long, hard years. With the secur­ the purposes of the unemployment about completing the outstanding ity of the $35 weekly disability- insurance program, as,they encour­ 1959 claim. But as soon as he did, pension, he spends his time brows­ age employers to fight ail claims another bottleneck arose: The pa­ All together again, the Pederssen family is pictured en­ ing around town talking with other for benefits so they can secure a pers on the old claim were now joying a lunch at the SIU headquarters cafeteria. On tap old hands -and going over the days high rebate. The AFL-CIO Com­ filed too late under the Plan's are Seafarer and Mrs. Jimmie Pederssen, J^nold, 7% of - long ago. mittee indicated its support for a rules. Because of the hospital's er­ Victor, 9; Debra, 3%, and Glenn, 1%. Pace FonfcM SEAFARERS LOG December, 19M m Wave Lashes Ames Victory; 6 Hurt Seafarer's Daughter At Union Clinic SEATTLE—Five Seafarers and the chief mate of the Ames Victory (Victory Carriers) were injured, the mate most severely, when a giant wave rolled over the ship while they were working around the chain locker. The accident took place- while the freighter was in the North Pacific, enroute to-* Korea. days which had done some damage ship and completely submerged As a result of the accident to the vessel. Water pouring over the bow. The chief mate said be the chief mate, Edward H. Connell, the bow during the storm had grabbed on to the hatch coaming and Seafarers Earl H. C. Poe and washed out cement on the spill to avoid being swept out to sea. Ronald Wheeler were hospitalized. pipes through which the anchor The force of the wave bent the Others who received treatment for chains pass through the deck to iron bar out of shape, with the re­ injuries were Clyde Brown, bosun, the chain locker. sult that the hatch cover slammed and Burton Hirsh and Walter Si- Cementing Spill Pipes down on ConnelTs fingers, sever­ «V',. korski, ABs. The five men, under the direc­ ing four of them on each hand. All of the men involved agreed tion of the mate, were recementing The skipper and first assistant it was a miracle that none of them the spill pipes at the time of the engineer perforined emergency wa.s .swept out to sea by the huge accident. In the process, they had surgery, sewing up the torn fingers u wave. Another unidentified crew- opened the chain locker hatch without an effective anesthetic. I f,. member escaped almost certain cover and secured it in place with Poe, one of the deck mainte­ death when he went into the chain an iron bar and pins. nance men, suffered leg injuries. locker just a moment before the It was just a few minutes before He was submerged so deeply in wave struck. Had he been stand­ the men were to knock off for water, he said, that he couldn't see ing in the open hatch, as he was lunch when the wave, estimated any light at all. "I opened my eyes, a moment before the accident, he at 30 to 50 feet high, struck the but it was all black above me." could not have survived. The other deck maintenance, Ironically, the accident took Wheeler, was slammed up against place the day before Thanksgiving the anchor windlass, suffering in­ normally an occasion for fes­ juries to his left leg, groin and ribs. tivities on board ship. The vessel The most fortunate crewmember returned to Port Angeles immedi­ was the one who had been stand­ ately and the men were then flown ing in the open hatch. Since the to Seattle for treatment. hatch cover slammed down in the The Victory Carriers' ship was accident, he undoubtedly would An SIU medical clinic staff physician examines Nancy 630 miles out at sea at the time have been crushed to death had Ann Cruz, 7, while her father, Seafarer Bartolo (Ralph) of the accident. It had been bat­ he not ducked back inside the Cruz looks on. All clinics offer complete medical examina­ tling heavy weather for several Sikorski Brown hatch just before the wave struck. tion facilities for dependents one day each week.

SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK SIU Blood Bank Tlie following is the latest list­ Otis Mckinncy WilUam H. RoUins tJSPHS HOSPITAL VICTOR CULLEN STATE HOSP. ^ Inventory George Marcotte James Selman BRIGHTON. MASS. CULLEN. MAR-YLAND ing of men in the hospital: Edgar Marguardt Frank Van Dusen Walter Foster Alvino Terrazas Avis Meadows Clyde B. Ward USPHS HOSPITAL SAMPAN COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSP. Period: October, 1960 trSPHS HOSPITAL Samuel Powell Richard Waters SAVANNAH. GEORGIA CLINTON. NORTH CAROUNA • BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Vincent J. Rizzuto Jesus Landron Palmer Smith David Gilmore. Jr. Mack Acosta James Faust S. G. Morris Tony Sosa VA HOSPITAL Pints Contributed 76 Edwin Ainsworth George Gallagher USPHS HOSPITAL Ivey M. Peacock' Ernest H. Webb WEST ROXBURY, MASS. Cornelius Allison Gorman Glaze GALVESTON, TEXAS R. J. Sherman J. F. WunderUcta R. Arsenault George Balasfeos Loyd J. Griffis James B. Harrison Julian Lelinskl USPHS HOSPITAL VA HOSPITAL Elden Bartlett Walter Harris Troy A. Cousins George Mills NEW ORLEANS, LA. NEW YORK. NY Charles Berick Earl Hartman Allen Crosby Archie J. Milne Emil Herek M. M. Lockliar Chas. O. Bergagna Pints Credited 38 Francisco Casasco Robert HeUg John F. Dixon D. B. Patterson E. W. Anderson 'Emmett W. Mayo VA HOSPITAL Joseph Cox Julio Lazu John G. Gregory Bobby R. Stalswortb W. Barrilleaux John C. Moore KERRVILLE, TEXAS (Under a standard arrangement James Curry Marion Lukas John A. Hudgins Robert C. White Charles Cooper James T. Mooro WiUard T. CahiU James Dillon Roy McCannon Ben G. Ladd Edwin Whitehead Ancil Cunningham Fred Morris VA HOSPITAL with the Brooklyn Donor Center Jerry DeLoulse William Paris WEST HAVEN. CONNECTICUT Inc., 50% is alloted for service, LoweU W. Ditsch J. Pendergrass Henry E. Smith John J. DriscoU i E. E. Engelhard Dewey A. Penton TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL processing and storage.) John R. Epperson Eugene Plahn TAMPA. FLORIDA Physical Exams—All SIU Clinics Hug Gallagher Veikko Pollanen Robert A. Jackson Credits Jletnmed .... 6 G. L. Glendenning Anthony Rodriguei US SOLDUSRS HOSPITAL Edgar Goulet. Calvin A. Rome WASHINGTQN. DC Previous Balsnee .... 92Vk Month Of October, 1960 Wade HarreU Horace Roundtree Wm. H. Thompson Alvin Henderson Paul Slgnoiino PINE CREST HAVEN Port Seamen Wives Children TOTAL Samuel N. Hurst Jay C. Steel COVINGTON. LA. 1361,6 James P. Jones WUliara ThcrntoB Frank Martin Baltimore' 110 8 7 125 William T. Jonea Roy E. Truly TRIBORO HOSPITAL A. J. Jordan, Jr. Pedro VlUabol JAMAICA, LONG ISLAND. NY Pints Used 39 Houston 72 3 2 77 Leonard Kay Ernest C. Vlton James Russell Edward Knapp George Williams VA HOSPITAL Mobile 46 7 3 , 56 Leo Lang Philip WoUe HOUSTON, TEXAS Balance On Hand USPHS HOSPITAL Edward Talbot Npw Orleans 114 2 .7 123 STATEN ISLAND. NY SAILORS SNUG HARBOR November 1, 1966 97Vk Oscar Adams M. Michalik STATEN ISLAND, NY New York 361 22 18 401 Leonard Bailey A. Mitchke Thomas Isaksen A. B. Gutierrez Ernest Bailey Dan Muhro Bart Guranick James W. Barnes W. Murphy USPHS HOSPITAL TOTAL 703 42 37 782 Henning Bjork August Frincen FORT WORTH. TEXAS Richard Cavanaugb Winford Powell Benjamin Deibler Woodrow Meyerz BANK NEEDS 402V4 PINTS TO Wilford Chapman Leonard Rhino Thomas R. Lehay Bozo G. Zelenclc Galind Colon Emeterio Rivera MEET GOAL OF 506 Joseph Felton Jsoe Rodriguez^ George Fiance Jorge Rodriguez SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans Edward Glazder Manuel Rodriguez Thomas J. Gray Cecil Rush Daniel Gurrero Benjamin Schwartz Cash Benefits Paid James Helgoth Colisto Siaran Frank Hernandez Stefan Sobczyk October 24—November 20, 1960 Bo Karlsson Andes E. Strom Thomas Lauer John Thompson loannis Loukas Jessie B. Voliva Number Mai McAIister Arthur A. Wilfert Charles Martino N. J. Wood Of Benefits AMOUNT PAID Louis Martonrsik USPHS HOSPITAL Hospital Benefits (Welfare) .... 5747 $16,062.00 ^ NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Earl T. Congleton M. Hudgins Death Benefits (Welfare)..... 12 43,858.55 Herbert Fentress Henri J. Robin, 3t. Disability Benefits (Welfare).. 768 26,880.00 Hamilton Hadiey USPHS HOSPITAL Maternity Benefits (Welfare).. 31 6,200.00 SAN FRANCISCO,. CALIF. Dependents Benefits (Welfare) .' 128 35,264.01 James Barrett Ernest Kunlckas Allen Boone Andrew Mazurek Optical Benefits (VVelfare).... 141 1,272.86 Matthew Bruno Herman C. Mora A. A. Franklin Donald Peterson James B. Har.'is Carlos L. Sy Summary (Welfare) ...... 6827 $129,537.42 Samuel Joseph Christos Teambls F. R. KazluVe—'ez An SIU Blood Donor Certificate (sample above) is given to every Vacation Benefits 1320 TTrw.iTq HOSPITAL * $219,629.08 SEATTLE. WASH. person donating to the SIU Blood Bank, which is maintained through Dar,-an O. Coker Edwin Phillls the SIU Clinic in Brooklyn. The bank supplies Seafarers or members TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION Arthur Furst UNIVERSITV OF WASHTVrfTON HCSP. of their families with blood anywhere jn the United States and has BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... 8147 $349,166.50 SEATTLE. WASH. B. R. Hubbard been in operation since January, 1959. Through an arrangement with VA HOSPITAL a national clearing house, blood can be supplied on short notice in None of the figures in the above summaries indicate the amounts NEW ORLEANS, VA. , paid for various other Welfare Benefits for SIU men and their de­ Woodrow DavHi Clarence A.' Mazoue any emergency. Donors can arrange appointments on. the 2nd deck at pendents, such as scholarship payments,, meal books, training facilities, NAVAL AIR STATION HOSP. SIU headquarters; one block from the Clinic. The whole procedure JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA medical examinatibns, and similar items. Wm. H. Newsom fakes only a few moment's time. '"1 SSAFAktRS t6& rag0 fttteem 'Secref Ingredient' Xieeislatiire

RAY MURDOCH, Director NLRB.—According to NLRB the five member board has made rul­ ings in 864 unfair labor practice and employee representation election cases during the three month period from July 1, through September 30, 1960. This represents a 14 percent increase over the same -threo month period of one year ago. There were 738 representation cases de­ cisions and 126 unfair labor practice cases were decided. NLRB Trial Examiners, who conduct hearings and issue findings in unfair practice cases, wrote 185 Intermediate Reports—an all-time high—during this three month period." The report also says that unions won 57 per­ cent of the 1,673 collective bargaining elections held during this period. AFL-CIO unions participated in 1,146 elections. They won a majority in 581, and lost in 565. Independent unions participated in 710 elec­ tions. They won a majority in 368 elections and lost in 342. Fifty two elections were conducted upon petitions by employees asserting that an incubent labor organization no longer represented a majority -of V. y employees. Thirty five resulted in decertification of the union and seventeen wefe won by the unions involved. ^ ^ it BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIT.—According to a study made by Sigfrid G. Unander, FMB member, the US could effect a dollar exchange savings of approximately $812 million per year on commer­ cial and defense cargoes by taking steps to assure that more American foreign trade is carried in American ships. Unander said that if the unysed capacity of nearly 4.9 million tons of cargo on American-flag liner service were utilized, a saving of $121 million in additional dollar exchange savings would result. He said, "A study of cargo deadweight !'' and bale cubic utilization of US flag ships in liner service during 195d indicates" it is possible to increase our liner carryings by about 4.9 million long tons, or from 13.8 million tons to 18.7 million tons, an V' increase of abut 36 percent. If total liner cargoes carried by all flagt in our foreign trade in 1959 (46.2 million tons) are used as a base, th. But on a subsequent broadcast interview, when it Screams "socialized medicine." CONTAINERSHIP.—According to an examination of the nation's il, p ^ shipbuilding program, the maritime industry is approaching the whole 't its president made it quite clear that the organisation was going to twist every Con­ question of containerization with great caution. The problems raised ^Runaway Dollars' by automation and corkainerization are of vital importance to maritime gressman's- arm just as hard as it could to labor and management. At the present time, a little over five percent defeat legislation which would place medi­ All the talk about the dollar drain and of the nation's privately-owned ocean going dry cargo fleet is capable cal care for the aged under the Social the hhn on the US gold stock may sound of operating containers either as partial or full container ships. In Security program. like high finance but it's very simple. The addition to the 37 ships already in service or been delivered, II vessels The attitude of the medical association is US is spending more money abroad than it ^ are uhder construction and 14, with full container capacity, are ia no surprise. After all, it was the AMA is earning abroad. It is getting into, debt the .planning stages. In the maritime industry certain advantages which fought bitterly against the broaden­ to the rest of the-world. To pay its debts seem quite obvipus, lower insurance costs, most efficient packaging ^it has to export gold and dollars. If this and lower losses resulting from damage and pilferage. The disadvau'* ing of Social Security to cover disabled' tages include the as yet unsolved problem as to who will pay and ar­ Americans over 50., What merits examina­ keeps up, the value of the dollar .Will b^ range for the consolidation into a full container load of the many small tion are the reasons for the AMA opposition. undermined, prices will go up and the packages offered by a number of shippers. Another disadvantage is After all, neither the Federal disability standard of living of American workers said to be the greater degree of outbound container shipments in th« benefit, nor health insurance for retired would be reduced. international trade. This creates the problem of "deadheading" empty Americans under Social Security, has any The people who are responsible for this, containers back to this country. Still another problem is the lack of impact on the doctor-patient relationship. to a very large degree, are the same people prompt return of containers. However, the SlU-contracted Erie and St. Patients still continue to go to their private the SlU and other unions have" been fight­ Lawrence Corporation up until now has confined its containership twice- ing'—the runaway operators. Whether it's weekly service between the Port of Newark and Jacksonville, Florida. doctors. They still pay doctor bills and hos­ The company has announced that it will extend its containership serv­ pital bills. The difference is the Federal a. steel company building ships in foreign ice to the port of Miami. Government covers part of their medical yards and registering them Liberian; a; 4 t ^ costs through Government benefits and movie company producing motion pictures AUTOMATION.—The president of George G. Sharp Co,, a firm of Government insurance. This is a far cry in Spain; a chemical company sinking naval architects, told a meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and from the AMA bugaboo of "socialized medi­ money into a plant in Holland, the motive Marine Engineers that technical advances must be accompanied by is the same—to escape US wages and taxes. lower labor costs on ship and dock if American cargo ships are to com­ cine"'in which the doctors would be in the pete with foreign-flag ships. Douglas C. McMillan, the president of th» employ of the Government. The Administration in Washington has, company, said that if it were possible to cut a ship's fuel bill and th«' The. people who are affected by these in the past several years, encouraged this initial cost of construction in half, it still would not be possible td '••. A--:,' •• measures are the insurance companies who trend and made it convenient for some seg-. make up the wage differential between US and foreign crews. Labor 'ir:x.., have made such a good deal out of peddling ments of business to profit this.way at the costs aboard conventional ships account for 50 to 60 percent of tht expense of all other Americans and the cost of transporting cargo by sea. About 65 percent of this labor cost 1^:1,•> ' ••- health insurance and then canceling out on Americans over 65. American ieconomy. goes io longshoring costs. McMillan said "maritime labor costs in the Fortunately, the realization has come in postwar period have risen 7.7 percent per year and this has not been . There is another angle to the AMA's op­ accompanied by a rise in productivity. . . . The shipowner sho^d bf position that's worth mentioning. If the Washington that steps must be taken to entitled to some improvement in productivity without further increase# Social Security Administration starts remedy the situation. Some of these steps, in labor rates. Mechanieatioir can produce a vessel that can be operated handling medical care payments, what hap­ if followed through, could mean a consider­ safely with less than half of the present crew." According to McMillan's pens tn some of the privately-owned hos­ able boost in ships and seamen's jobs under estimates, some 25,000 seafarers and longshoremen could be eliminated pitals and their padded bills? Or the exces­ the American flag, where these ships belong. through automation. ' Pkf» Sfaitcai SEAFARERS LOa DMcmber. Mft Seafarers And Sons At SlU Clinlo Iff Ship, Shareside Runaways I 111 Push Us Into Dollar Crisis WASHINGTON—Runaway ship operators and runaway shoreside businesses are largely responsible for the present crisis in the stability of the US dollar—a crisis which affects the 1? purchasing power and standard of living of every American worker. That's the conclusion that's being drawn as the US Government engages in a se^ the giant industrial firms which the dollar drain. For example, ries of near-desperation ma­ own or support them, are contribut­ Esso Tankers, Inc., recently placed neuvers to stop the flow of gold ing heavily to the outflow of dol­ orders for 11 supertankers in Eu­ and dollars from the United States lars. Here are a few ways in which ropean yards, probably represent­ into foreign lands. the runaways-do their bit to wreck ing an investment of around $100 the US dollar—with the official million. If the flow continues, then the encouragement of US Government Government would be forced to • Shoreside runaways are the agencies; most responsible for the problem. cut the value of the dollar in rela­ • An average supertanker or ore tion to other currencies. This Investments by business companies carrier costs anywhere from $8 mil­ and individuals abroad are at a would cut back the purchasing lion up to build in a foreign yard. power of millions of American yearly rate-of $4.1 billion. For ex­ There are 500 such bulk carriers ample, Ford Motor Company alone workers through price mark-ups in operation under the Liberian and inflation which would follow. is planning to plunk $358 million flag, most of them American-owned into the British Ford Motor Com­ On the other hand, if the Gov­ or American-financed representing ernment takes some proposed steps pany. The obvious purpose is to a total investment in the vicinity promote sales of British-made now under consideration, the re­ of $500 million. sult could be increased use of Fords in the world market at the American-flag shipping, transfers- $1 Billion A Year Lost expense .of the American product. back of Liberian-flag tonnage to • Most of these ships are en­ Other companies that have in­ the American flag, and vastly-im­ gaged in American commerce. But vested .heavily abroad to get tax proved job opportunities for Amer­ the dollars they earn do not come an^ wage benefits include Rem­ At New York SIU headquarters is Seafarer Partha ican seamen. One snch program back to the States. That includes ington Rand, General Motors, IBM, (Jerry) Jernigan, engine department, with his two sons, now being considered is a 75-25 di­ the earnings of hundreds of other General Electric and a host of vision on Government cargoes to ships originally built under the other industrial giants. ' Jimmy (left) and Jerry. Occasion for visit was check-up replace "50-50." (See story on American flag but subsequently In the face of the problem, all-, for sons at SIU clinic. page 2). transferred. In fact, the total spent that the Government has done thus . The hard, core of the situation is in 1959 on shipping freight charges far is to cut off travel to overseas that the United States is spending alone, on foreign-flag and Libe­ bases by dependents of men in the $4.3 billion a year more in foreign rian-flag ships, was $382 million. Armed Forces. This, in itself, is nations than it is taking; in from Passenger and freight revenues to­ an immediate setback to the ship­ MEBA Scores 4th 'iSO those nations. Such a practice, if gether earned from Americans by ping industry which up until now continued indefinitely, would put foreign shipping amounted to over had carried household goods and the US in debt to the re,st of the $1 billion in 1959, a good part of other freight in connection with world and lead to cuts in Ameri­ it on runaway-flag passenger dependents' movements, as well Win In Lakes Voting cans' living standards. vessel^ as sotne; pas^ngers. DETRQIT—The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, Runaway' ship operators, and • The trend is continuing despite Won't Touch Runaways Great Lakes District, has scored its fourth straight organizing ; What , the Government hag re­ fused to touch up' until now is victory on the Great Lakes this year, winning representation .the investment by shipping run­ rights for engineers in the'' Remember When.. aways and shoreside runavrays. "US Nicholson Transit fleet. News and World Report," in its December 5 issue, declares: "There In the process, the MEBA Prospects Diiii ' DECEMBER 15, 1839: 32 German iseamen, quartered in a Baltimore is no present; intention to dfscbiir- defeated the Foreman's Association hotel, are sitting out the war. The American shipping company that age investment in plants abroad.f* of America, one of a ^multitude of was employing them was paying their rent and board and giving them .The obviOus solution to the prob­ "independent" unlpbs operating in For Repealing each 50 cents a day spending money. The German crews .quit their lem would be to discourage such ships and went to a hotel shortly after Germany invaded Poland. The Great Lakes'ehipptag; The final investments and to bring back run­ margiU Yn a 'se^et ballot, election 'V men are not allowed to work, and their 60-day permit given by the away shipping under the American Government has expired. . ^ •was 24 for the MEBA tp 2 for the 'Wreck' La# flag. "New York Times" columnist WASHINGTON—Election ijosl- 4 4- l- Cyrus Sulzberger put It this wajr Foremen's Association. The asso­ mortem studies of the results ia DECEMBER 9. 1940: 323 men out of a total of 340 polled in NLRB in the November 28, i860, issue: ciation had held collective bargain­ elections aboard the Calmar Line ships voted to have the SIU represent various state legislatures have them. This is the third SIU triumph on the East Coast in the past "Our outmoded tax system still, ing rights in the Nicholson fleet given the AFL-CIO little cause for three months, the others being the P & O and the Baltimore Insular induces US firms to fabricate goods since 1M6. optimism as far as repeal of "'right ships. The Union has been in existence on the East Coast only two in branches c^erseas which are In earlier organizing campaigns to work" legislation is concerned. years. then sold at cheaper prices in this year, the MEBA was chosen A round up of, the local" votes t 4. 4 world markets. The corporate, ovm- as bargaining agent by engineers shows that with he exception ef DECEMBER 23, 1941: (Two weeks at war); No more gleaming white ers .make profits in the end; And in Cleveland Tapkers, Wilson California. and Pennsylvania," mcit superstructure on the old rust buckets from riow on. No more red Uncle Sana loses exports. Marine Transit and Republic Steel, statPs showed a trend to more con? stacks, or green, or blue, or yellow. Nothing but dull battleship-grey "This is the real problem , These three companies operate 34 servative candidates lb state legis­ from stem to stern. Furthermore, all identification marks, flags and vessels on the Lake's. latures. ~ i other insignia must be covered by the new battleship colors . . . After In a related vote, the MEBA-af- In Indiana, the. one major'-indus- a year of attempted appeasement of Marshal Petain and the French flliated Associated Maritime Offi­ trial state with a "right to work* Government, the United States finally was forced to recognize that the SGHEDULEOF cers won bargaining rights for law on .the books. Republicans French are firmly tied to the Axis, and last week seized all French deck officers at Nicholson - by a won- control of the state houSe'of ships in American waters. The biggest prize was, of course, the super- count of 17 to 2. representatives, although . the liner Normandie. There is speculation as to what use will be made of SIUMEETINGS Job Security Democrats took the governorship her. She could be converted as an aircraft carrier within three months and the state senate. Ray McKay, president of the or four. Or she could be made a transport unequaled anywhere in the SIU membership meet­ However, in Delaware, the elec­ world for speed and cruising radius and capacity. (A fire during con­ Lakes District, attributed the vic­ ings are held regularly tory to the desire of Nicholson offi­ tion of Elbert N. Carvel as gov­ version cut her career short, and the Normandie was a total loss.) once a month on days in­ ernor is seen as a block to efforts 4- 4 4 cers for job security and employ­ of the "right to work",, group there. - DECEMBER 10, 1942: Four SIU seamen were the only survivors of dicated by the SIU Con­ ment guarantees "that are possible New Mexico is considered a pos­ m torpedoing off India. After 20 days on a raft they sighted a ship. only in a national union with thou­ sible danger spot because of the stitution, at 2:30 PM in sands of jobs under contract in the But the. lookouts aboard the ship tailed to see their frantic waving, the listed SIU ports below. election of a conservative gov­ and passed them a mile and a half off. Two turtles were swimming Great Lakes and other areas." ernor. There has been some "right about the raft. In desperation they pulled one aboard. With a jagged All Seafarers are ex­ ' The Nicholson engineers won the to work" activity in the state In the edge of a bottle they cut away the shell after, pecking at it for four pected to attend;. Those right to a representation election past. hours. The warm blood revived them, and enabled them to last four after a four-day strike last April. more days before they were picked up. who wish to be excused The election was ordered by the 4 4 4 • should request permission Wayne County Circuit Court after PHorc^ DECEMBER 24, 1942: The Baltimore port agent found out "there's by telegram (be sure to a hearing in which the engineers two sid_es to every story" when he went to bat for a member only to produced information that the find out that he was in wrong because he: had been peddling liquor. include registration num« Foreman's Association was in vio­ '•That's the kind of stuff that pulls down the Uiiion and gets the patrpl- ber). The next SIU meet­ lation of the laws and had no sup­ Bien in wrong. As far as we are concerned, any liquor peddler can go ings will be: port from the engineers. hire himself a lawyer; we've got too many legitimate beefs to attend to The head of the Foreman's Asso­ without taking on one like that," he said, New York . Jan. 4 ciation was compelled to admit 4. 4 4 Philadelphia ^ Jan. 5 under oath that his organization DECEMBER 3, 1943: The heroic story of , the Alcoa Scout and its had iipl held elections in nine SIU crew; a small, slow ship of World War I vintage, facing a vicious Baltimore . Jan. 6 years and had; np authorization North Atlantic storni and. because of the seamanship of the crew, Detroit / Ja^^^^ from engineer to' negotiate, con­ coming through with flying, colors. She steamed into an East, .Cbast Houston > . - Jon; Jl . tracts. port with only six inches of free-board aft and four feet forward. She' The strike wai called after the was twisted completeiy out of alignment, the holds carried a large New Orleong Jon. 12 company refused - tP . meet the quantity of water, all lifeboats Imd been .-swept away,, one- anchor was Mobile Jon. 12 MBBA's demand .for a representa­ tion election. Deeeefcer, 19M' SEAFARERS LOG Fag* ScTCBteaa

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SPACIOUS INTERIOR hold is used for "roll-on" cargo such CHARLES BEDELL, LARRY OOONAN, MM, serves delegate R. Sikwart. autos, as: weU as additional trailer bodies brought in by {cook, bones a ham on At right is James Anderton. Others are Jim Warlick ftok-lift. the New Yorker. (left) and Chuck Wallace, all New Yorker crewmen. T-'i* -*1 <#^-- I^ClgliteeB SE Af AREJtS tOG Deisitnber; im' COMACSRCXA.X'

SlU Atlantic Fishermen On Deck New Bedford Fishermen Hold First 2-year Vote NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—In the first full two-year election' since the New Bedford Fishermen's Union affiliated with the ^ SIU, members of the Union have reelected Howard Nickerson,, as secretary - treasurer and^ chosen Jack Ostensen as dele­ tion, which took place shortly •• gate in secret ballot voting after the fishermen affiliated with i which closed- on November 30. the SIU, had been for a short The election had been conducted term. Following the affiliation, the for one month. fishermen had revised their con-. Tallying by a three-man rank stitutipn and set up an initial elec­ and file committee chosen at the tion in June, 1959. union's December 6 membership The New Bedford group had meeting showed the following been independent, but had quicks results: ly found that it needed the sup­ .For secretary-treasurer: port and strength offered by Howard Nickerson ...... S90 affiliating with a naUonal union. Edward Patenaude ...... 278 As a result of the affiliation, tho ' Irwin Taylor 16 fishermen have obtained welfare, Void or Blanks 30 plan protection for the first time. For delegate: The New Bedford union ipans Jack .Ostensen ...... 230 scallopers and draggers out of .the Part of the crew of the fishing vessel Carol & Jack, contracted to the Atlantic Fisher­ James Almond ...... 181 Massachusetts port. New Bedford . men's Union, wait on deck at the Fulton St., dock in New York. The crew, <1 to r) Os­ ' Ray St. Don 110 is generally recognized as (he, wald Olsen; Clay Rosand (both deckhands); Jack Enis (cook) and Jack Sand- Joseph Bourassa 98 "scallop capital" of the US. haland (deckhand) has just returned from a nine-day trip and is getting ready to spend Romeo Tremblay 53 48 hours at home before going out again. Voids cr Blanks 42 There was a total of 714 votes cast, the committee reported. SIU Signs •ri*! The successful candidates will serve for the twp-year term begin­ Atlantic Fishermen Begin ning January 31. Puerto Jtfco ; The previous New Bedford elec- Tuna Pact Big Drive For Members Among anions In the SIU are SAN JUAN—The SIU Puerto a number of groups of commer­ Rico Division has signed a two-' BOSTON—The SlU-affiliate Atlantic Fishermen's Union has started a membership drive cial fishermen on all coasts, as year contract covering about 300" which began December 1. The Union has dropped its initiation fee requirement in all all-out well as shoreslde fish canneries workers at the National Packihg' and processors. They are In­ Co., producers., of Cliicken O' tho' effort to organize all the fishermen in the Northeast. volved In such widely-diversi­ Sea tuna. The Atlantic Fishermen are fied fiahinr operations as scal­ The plant, .organized recently^ organizing to recoup the England ^Anally seems to realize will make some effort to protect loping, tuna fishing, salmon with the help of Mrs. Andtea that they have to be united in one them from this unfair competition. fisheries, cod, halibut and many Gomez, Presideint of the SlU-affili­ losses sustained after three solid organization if anything is to The ironic part of this situation others. Groups involved include ated Cannery Workers Union of years of trying to operate as an be done about the terrlAc import is that the foreign fish industry has the New Bedford Fishermen's the Pacific, was won by the SIU independent union outside of the competition: been developed mostly with US Union, Alaska Fishermen's 255 to S over the Teamsti!>rs in am AFL-CIO. Three months ago, the Industry Hard Hit capital and US Government aid. Union, tnns fish and cannery NLRB election. AFU voted by an overwhelming New England fishermen have Our own Government has seen unions operating out of Call- The tuna cannery workers get a majority to affiliate with the been hit the hardest on this coast fit to help to destroy one of om fomls ports and^ groups in 10 cents per hour wage increase SIUNA, by imports. In the last ten years greatest industries with their pro- Bristol JBsy, Kodisk, and else-, In the nevv eontraft. A |S9;000 Great Interest the cost of living has risen ap­ grant and by allowing US capital where In th* far northwest company-paid Welfare plan is also to be invested abroad at the ex­ Pscltio. Included in the agreement. Officials of the Union declare proximately 20 per cent while the pense of our fisherman. Foreign that evetr during this short period ex-vessel price ,of fish has dropped boats, for example, 'are more mod­ of affiliation with the Seafarers, a 40 percent in this same period. ern than the American vessels. Gova Brbwn At SIU Cannery Show tremendous interest In the AFU Frozen fish from other countries Has been shown by the unorganized is largely respohsible for the de­ The AFU is also conducting its fishermen. regular election .of officers in the cline in the domestic industry. month of December. All candidates Everyone connected with the Everyone In this area has high hope that through their affiliation domestic fishing industry of New hopes that the new .administration with the SIUNA that all the fisher­ men of this country can unite as a single body in en effort to re­ store this industry to its former ;g-• importance.' . , .f: Alaska Union i Revamping its i|r

SEATTLE—The Alaska Fisher­ yr^. ; men's Union Is working nn fishing regulations for the 1961 fishing season, according to reports from The Cannery Workera Union, of the Pacific, SIUNA, hfil George Johansen, secretary-treas­ an important visitor to their exhibit at the Union Label; urer of the SlU-afflliate. Show in Log Angeles in October. California Governor' The recently concluded fishing Edmund (Fat) Brown (second from left) stopped by the I ' season in Alaska waters was a good exhibit during his tour of the show. Also shown in front i Richard Dodd (left) of Brooklyn, a member of the At­ one, in fact, the best since the 1948 of a display of products-made at Cannery Workers Un- ; lantic Fishermen's Union, stands near a hatch aboard season. Officers of the Union have been touring Alaska ports at the ion-contracted plants are (1 to r) Chris Moran, Cannery i the Gloucester fishing vessel Austin W. with master and close of the current season. They Workers representative; the New Horizons Queen of the owner Albino Pereira (right). They are unloading a catch are currently working our rules to exhibit; Jim Waugh, SIUNA representative; and Thffmas of porgies and butternsh at "the "Fulton - -Fish Market- - in govern flshing-in Alaska waters for L. Pitts, secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Fed­ New York.- next year. eration, AFL-CIO. ' ^ Dc^bcr, 19M SEAFARERS LOG Pace Niaetcca, Voyager, Hurricane Get Sill Safety Awards 151X7 MBDXCAZa

JOSEPH B. LOGUE, MD, Medical Director Trend To Heart Disease Gets Worse Coronary occlusion is one of the most dramatic of medical emergen­ cies. The sudden onset of pain, shock and, often, impending fear of death makes it feared by the informed public. Dr. Arthur M. Master's article in a recent American Medical Association Journal has thrown some interesting light on this subject. Through a question­ naire study of 2,600 cases, he and his colleagues have come to some very definite conclusions. To most people, a heart attack is just that; it makes no difference to them whether it is an occlusion (closing) of the blood vessel that supplies the heart, an insufficiency of the blood supply to tlje heart f Caused by a diseased and narrowed blood vessel that supplies blood to the heart, or any other type of heart disease. w > Dr. Master's study confines its -observations to acute coronary occlusion, which is the sudden blocking by a thrombus or blood clot of one of the blood vessels that supplies the heart. This must be thoroughly understood; otherwise, a person with a disease of the SIU safety awards honoring six-month accident-free records by Seafarers on the Steel WJ > vessels, with narrowing, which gives insufficient blood supply to the -Voyager and Hurricane (right) are displayed by crewmembers. Seafarer Edward Ter­ heart, might do grave danger to himself by dqing some of the things which, in his opjnion, will not produce acute coronary occlusion. rell (foreground) accepts certificate for the Voyager from SITJ Safety Director Joe Al- In a study of occupation and coronary occlusion, the research team gina, as (1-r) Harold Laird, David Edwards> G. S. Lynch and T. D. York look on. Laird reviewed cases from all walks of life, such as laborers, skilled and and Edwards earned individual awards by being on the vessel for the full period. On unskilled; office workers; sales and professional personnel, etc. The the Hurricane, Mike Filosa, John McHale, Eugene Ray, Bob McCutcheon, Bob Martyn study included the time of day of the attack; the day of the week of and Joe DeJessa. (seated) show off award for their ship. Thirty SIU vessels have earned the attack; the type of activity at the time of the attack, whether six-month awards so far. sleeping or walking, mild or moderate activity or unusual and severe V exertion. They were not impressed that physical effort could produce acute coronary occlusion. The question of shoveling snow was especially discussed. A person ICC Primed For Overhaul; with angina pectoris or coronary artery disease of course should not shovel snow. Heavy work in a cold atmosphere places strain on the circulation. The extra demand on the heart for oxygen cannot be supplied by the narrowed coronary arteries, and an attack of acute Domestic Shipping May Benefit coronary insufficiency without occlusion might occur. Thus, shoveling WASHINGTON—^The pro-railroad, anti-ship Interstate Commerce Commission is slated snow may not be dangerous or even fatal to an ill person, but it does to be one of the prime targets for overhaul when the Kennedy administration takes over not cause acute coronary occlusion. Is it a "doctors' disease?" They doubted that. Since a doctor would next month. Two reports have already been filed with the outgoing Eisenhower adminis­ be more familiar with the symptoms of heart disease, he would likely tration calling for the over--* be more prompt in his diagnosis of heart disease, and perhaps more haul of the much-eriticized dermine and destroy the domestic member of the ICC to replace re­ prone to coronary insufficiency due to the strain of his profession. agency. shipping Industry. tiring chairman John H. Winchell. But there was no special tendency to acute coronary occlusion for The ICC has been the target of Similar criticism of the agency The SIU and ship operators have, doctors as a group. repeated attacks by the domestic has come from Great Lakes ship charged that up until now the ICC Is it on the increase, or is there an epidemic? On the increase, shipping companies, by the SIU operator* as well as operators in has been dominated by men com­ "yes"; an epidemic, "no." Coronary occlusion is on the increase be­ and other maritime unions as well the tug and barge Industry on in­ ing out of the railroad industry. cause we live longer than we used to, and thus more people reach for its pblicies and procedures. The land waters. The Union has called for represen­ .the age when they are most susceptible to the conditions that bring Unions and the ship operators have A key indicator of the new ad­ tation on the commission from about coronary occlusion. In addition, due to better diagnosis, cases accused the ICC of supporting and ministration's attitude will come shipping as well. Consequently, are more frequently recognized. approving railroad rate - making when incoming President Kennedy the SIU and the industry will be There were many questions raised regarding coronary occlusion. policies which are helping to un­ is called upon to appoint 2 new interested in seeing who is chosen Can it be prevented? Does one attack predispose an "individual to an­ to replace Winchell and what in­ other? Can a patient who has had a coronary occlusion ever return to dustry he comes out of. heavy labor? Does sleep hasten this condition and others? Hit Procedural Delay The question that stands out is this: "What causes coronary occlu­ While the two reports—one to sion?" Dr. Master and his colleagues are convinced that the only Business Giants Confess the Budget Bureau and the other known cause is the presence of atherosclerosis, which is a lesion of the to the ICC itself—did not deal Inner lining of the blood vessels, consisting of yellowish plaques con­ specifically with the problems of taining cholesterol and other materials. The cause of this condition the shipping industry, they did is the subject of extensive research. The only known contributing Crime Of Price-Rigging touch on one of the operators' spe­ factor is probably physiological shock, causing the slowing of the cial complaints, the delays in the circulating blood, and thus allowing a clot of thrombus to form. PHILADELPHIA — Nineteen major electrical manufac­ ICC's rate making procedures. Some of the conclusions were that "acute coronary occlusion was turers,. including the industry's giants. General Electric and SlU-contracted companies such as Westinghouse, have pleaded guilty to criminal charges of Sea-Land and Seatrain have com­ not produced by effort or occupation"; that is it not a "doctors' dis­ plained bitterly that it sometimes ease." Pei;sons with coronary artery disease should not shovel snow, illegal conspiracy to rig bids-^ ; TTTT"! Z takbs many months before the ICC but mostly because of the possibility of producing coronary insuffi­ and fix prices on heavy elec- $8 million. will act on a rate protest. In the ciency without occlusion. trical equipment. In addition, the corporations meantime, the protested railroad Coronary disease is on the increase due to aging population. One The guilty pleas ended the could be sued for triple damages rate stays in effect, and the ship­ acute attack of coronary occlusion does predispose to another attack largest criminal case of its kind in under the Sherman Act by the cus­ ping companies lose out heavily on due to the underlying atherosclerosis. A person recovered from an the history of the anti-trust laws. tomers who were the victims of the cargo involved. IJ * attack of coronary occlusion should return to work, but certainly not Involved was approximately one the rigged bids. Both reports also accused the a job that is too strenuous either mentally or physically. and three-quarter billions in con­ Government attorneys are ex­ ICC oL inefficiency, delays and At this time, neither the cause nor the prevention of acute coronary tracts. a large part of them being pected to ask for jail sentences in confusion and called for revamping occlusion is known. ' It is their firm belief, however, that it is the sales to Government agencies. view of the serious nature of the the agency for more effective' ad­ J. end result of atherosclerosis of the coronary vessels, and is not influ­ Involved, in effect, was collusion offenses. ministration. enced by any known external process. to make the government agencies (Comments and suggestions are invited by the Department and can involved and private buyers pay be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) considerably more than they would have had to if the bidding The long anti-labor record of on the contracts had been legiti­ the Sears Roebuck Company is I;', ) mate. now under fire from the Retail General Electric, Incidentally, is the company which has a policy Clerks International Association. of actively participating in politi­ A notional "don't shop at Sears" 1li. > cal issues and in anti-qnion politi­ campaign by the union wos cal campaigns such as state "right U to work" campaigns as well as sup­ touched off by the firing of RCIA porting Federal legislation regu­ members in Son Francisco be­ I:' ^ lating the activities of trade unions. cause they refused to cross a pick­ I C' Attorney General William P. h Rogers had described the cases in et line of striking machinists. court as involving "as serious in­ Some of the fired clerks were stances of bid-rigging and price- later restored to their jobs, but fixing as have been charged in the In the hospital? more than half-century life of the downgraded in pay. Others are I Sherman Anti-Trust Act." still jobless. The unjpn is asking h' The acts of which the corpora­ all union members and their fam­ I- tions and individuail officers were held .guilty could result in fines of ilies across the country to stay up to $50,000 on each charge, plus away from Sears until the firm aMI SIO Hill immediately! up to a year in jail for the officers treats its employees fairly. of the corporations involved. Maxi- •r-_'. ^ A, -... jv;-' V iu •• Pag* Twenty SEAFARERS LOG Deeembejr, IMI Kyska Seafarer At Controls SZX7 700D Md _IO£ia Wins

Cliit Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director Office Pact NEW YORK—A three-day strike Proper Feeding is Universal Issue • of office employees of American Some yenerai comments about the importance of £' balanced diet Export Lines came to 4n end with for seamen were noted here in the last issue of the SEAFARERS agreement on a first-time contract ' LOG. Now along comes a report on feeding conditions for Norwegian covering 325 clerks. The strike was ' seamen as a feature in the Internationrl Transport Workers' Journal called by Local 153, Office Em­ published by the ITF. The discussion outlines some of the feeding ployees International Union, after problems aboard Norwegian vessels and, particularly, the health the union won representation problems that poor diet ccn create for seamen. rights for the Export Line office It's obvious from all this that seamen's food beefs aren't something staff; to be lightly brushed aside; they're a problem throughout- the mari­ The agreement provides for a time world. The article emphasizes the following, for example: "In 7V4 percent weekly increase, a Norway'it has been gstcblished that apart from accidents on board union shop and a foUr-week vaca­ it is rheumatism and digestive troubles which make up the seafarers' tion after 20 years' service. worst ailments. But nervous diseases have lately come to the fore­ Picket lines of the office work­ front in a sensationd manner. ... ers at Export Line -piers in New "Meals on board are to blame for many of these—although doctors York and Hoboken had been re­ do not hold them responsible for all complaints of nervous origin. spected by members of the Inter­ Tiiere is general agreement on the great importance of regularity— Standing at the Bailey Board aboard the SS Kyska national J-ongshoremen's Associa­ a feeling of contentment—in mealtimes." tion. The Maritime Trades Dep,art- (Waterman) is Seafarer E. Dickens, FWT. Vessel was ment, AFL-CIO, called upon the The article klso make's this point: "But gastric ulcers and other in New York at the time, but has since departed for the stomach troubles are not necessarily the result of bed food. There company to negotiate with the un­ is also the possibility that seafarers' physical troubles in work on Far East. - ion prior to settlement of the beef. board ship can lead to mental stress which in fact can be a cause of gastric ulcers and other similar diseases-" All this boils down to the m i9 fact that proper, regular and nutritious feeding aboard ship—any­ where—i:} best way to maintain "a happy ship," and all that this ex­ ILA Wins Automation Fund pression has come to mean. NEW YORK—An increase in the number of ships using containers, or in ships converted Part of the problem confronting Norwegian seamen is believed to to container cargoes, may emerge as a result of an arbitration award issued here. A three- stem from the fact that Norwegian government regulations for mer­ chant vessels date back to 1937, an^ efforts in the past to amend them man arbitration board has se up a scale of royalty payments ranging from 35 cents to $1 have been unsuccessful. The-1937 date is important because it pre­ per ton for export-import car­ cedes many of the developments and innovations in food processing go handled in the port of New longshoremen for job losses result­ fected by the award which covers and preparation that came about during and since the war. It also York. ing from the use of containers in­ only transoceanic and Puerto Rico fails to take into account improved storage facilities built into new The arbitration dealt with an un­ stead of conventional cargo. cargoes. construction since 1945, which make it easier to provide a reasonable resolved issue in the contract be- With the financing of the fund The SlU-contracted Pan Atlantic variation fti diet. ^ tween-the International Longshore­ set, the union and tbo shipping Steamship company has been run­ Another side of the issue pointed out in the ITF article is the fact men's Association and the New association will now negotiate on ning fully-containerized ships into that "Norwegian shipowners have managed to get by with evasions of York Shipping Association. The the way the fund will be applied to San Juan, while Bull Line has been even the outmoded rules put in force by the government in 1937 . . . royalty system will be used to protect longshoremen'from the im­ carrying containers on a limited build up a fund to compensate pact of any Job displacement. scale. However, Bull has plans with the tacit permission of the authorities, due to a certain non­ Fees Vary chalance, if not negligence, in the latter's attitude to the question pending for purchase of one or of meals on board ship." We now come around full circle—to the Under the arbitration award, more C-4s out of the Governmerit " conventional cargo ships which fact that proper feeding is largely an economic question. reserve fleet and conversion of the Wine Growers carry a limited number Of contain­ vessels Into combination general Our experience on SIU ships through the Food and Ship Sanitation ers will pay the 35-cent fee. Com­ cargo and container carriers. Un­ Program clearly indicates, however, that good, balanced food' plus bination ships, partially converted doubtedly, other shipping compa­ improved service can be provided at the same or lower cost as before. for container use, will pay 70 cents nies have been considering similar This can be done if meal planning is based on real inventory controls Plug 'Health' a ton and full container ships $1 a moves. and effort is consciously made to cut waste, duplicate ordering and SAN FRANCISCO—All the 25- ton. Now that the container royalty improper storing. The various steps we have taken through the vol­ cent muscatel drinkers will be Up until now, the container provision has been set, it is ex­ untary feeding improvement programs of recent years and now with glad to hear that wine is good for trade has been largely limited to pected that much of the talk about- the full-time Food and Ship Sanitation set-up are paying dividends their health. At least that's what coastwise service and Puerto Rico container ships may be translated for everyone concerned. Part of this is due to the handling of feed­ the Wine Institute of California calls. Coastwise trade is not af­ into something specific. ing questions and minimum standards as a collective bargaining mat­ is trying to prove. As part of its ter between the Union and the shipowners, not as something sufijecf campaign the Institute recently to some governmental code, which is too easily' abused. We certainly haven't eliminated every feeding and service problem; we never expected everything to be letter-perfect. But we can say Maritime Roundup today, as far as SIU vessels are concerned, that the feeding and serv­ ice is the best it's ever been and improving all the time. SIU vessels Indonesia is rolng to get Its own used In Mediterranean service at have always been recognized as good feeders and we want to keep Kings Point soon. Members of the speeds of 47 to 53 knots. Mean­ that record going. faculty of the United States acad­ while, a Panamanian-flag'operator (Comments and suggestions are invited by the Department and can emy are helping organize a similar is putting a smaller hydrofoil, the he submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) school for maritime officers In Flying Fish, into service between Jakkrta, while several Indonesians Bellingham, Wash., and Victoria, have been observing the operation British Columbia. The Flying Fish of the Long Island school. is a 65-footer which can operate at a, 40 knots. In preparation for Its maiden t voyage, the SS Savannah has be­ The Lucke-nrbach Steamship gun d'ockside tests of Its atomic Corporation, one of the last re­ engines. The testing, which began maining domestic operators, has late In November, will continue purchased three ships for use on. for two months before the actual its intercoastal runs. Two of them nuclear fuel Is loaded aboard the are Navy surplus vessels purchased vessel. Part of the testing will be' from Isbrandtsen! The third Is a operation of the plant on a round- Socony T-2 tanker. All three will the-clock basis for several weeks.. be converted Into containerships threw a party for hospital adminis­ The plant will be powered by con­ capable of carrying 825 20-foot trators. ventional power sourcei^during the containers. The ships will be :..a: • The Institute and an associated test period. lengthened to 635 feejt In the con­ group, the Wine Advisory Board, ^ t . version process and -will operate at is spending over $100,000 this year Talk about homesteading, there's 17 knots. to sponsor medical studies on the a British seaman on the liner 4" 4" beneficial effects of wine. Britannic who beats them all. The Several of the newly-created na­ Ads placed by the Industry Britannic, a Cunard passenger tions of Africa are looking toward group In the , California Medical liner, has been in service for 30 establishing their own merchant Association Journal speak of the yfears. It is now headed for the fleets,'mostly for prestige purposes. appetite-stimulating properties of scrap heap. One of its crewmem- They are seeking to emulate the wines. Another ad described wine bers, John Dacey, a member of the example of Ghana which, with the as a vitamin supplement, but was engine department, was aboard the aid of Israel, has established the SIU galley force aboard SS Del Norte receives certificate cancelled when It was found that ship on her maiden voyage and has Black Star Line under its own flag. from US Public Health Service in N»w Orleans after in­ one or two gallons, a day would made every trip since then. Of course Liberia has long had a spection earned vessel a 98% rating, considered excellent be required to extract'any appre­ ^ nominal shipping fleet registered for a passenger ship. Seafarer William P. Kaiser, chief ciable amount of vitamins. A Swiss engineering concern Is urider its flag, but these new In addition, the Advisory Board qbout to. Jjuild the largest hydro­ African nations are talking about steward (left), aOcepts award from W. B. Griffin, USPHS has a booklet out called "Uses of- foil ship yet for passenger service! ships which actually belong to sanitation specialist, while Rufus. E. Stough, Jr., chief Wine in Medical Practice," and The boat will be 120 feet long, ac­ their own nationals, or to the cook, and S. P. Mitchfell, Mississippi port steward, look on. offers lectures to interested groups. commodate 240 passengers and be governments involved. DMcnbcr. 1»M SEAF 4RERS LOG Pagm Twenty Oag

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Engineers Huge Engine Room On SIU Laker 1960 Season Roundup Halt Pay Canadian SIU Wins Top 1 sll Cut Move Lakes Pact, Other Gains MONTREAL—The SlU Canadi­ an District defeated an attempt by MONTREAL—As the 1960 shipping season drew to a close, some members of the Association the SIU Canadian District, was able to point to a greatly- of Lake's Carriers to impose a con­ improved new contract with the Association of Lakes Car­ iJ. tract on engineers of the district's riers among its accomplish-'* Licensed Division which woiild ments for the year. Treasurer Hal C. Banks opened have slashed wages and working talks with the Association of Lakes conditions. In another important de­ velopment, the Canadian District Carriers at the end of last year, Protesting marine engineers continued its fight on runaway but by September of this year a 1 i walked off their ships early last Canadian ships to the British and Conciliation Board began studying month but returned to work after other flags. In this connection, the the question. three days when they were prom­ SIU aided seamen on these ships Later in September, after the ised a meeting with Federal Minis­ in "their fight for improved wages board rejected SIU demands, the ter of Labor Michael Starr. Hal and conditions. membership in turn rejected the Banks, secreUry-treasurer of the board findings, opening .the way Shipping on the Seaway ended for a strike. Canadian District and SIUNA vice November 30 and the Weiland president, in a telegram to Starr, The Interior of the engine room of the John A. France, The SIU walked off Patterson Canal closed December 15. The ships on September 29. Other as­ pointed out that no jurisdictional recently completed for the Scott, Misener company, shows Sault Ste. Marie Canal closed De­ dispute was involved. sociation members threatened to the elaborate, new equipment in-the giant new Canadian cember 12. lock seamen out of other fleets in Banks noted that th^ Labor De­ Canadian District Secretary- i- partment had on file. contracts be­ Lakers. The ship is under contract to the SIU Canadian the group. However, by October tween the Licensed Division and District. 4, Patterson signed a memorandum the Association of Lake Carriers Canadian Seafarers, members of agreement with the Union and f which pointed out the obviously of the SIU Canadian District, the other companies fell in line. phony nature of the new "con­ are a vital element In the mari­ Five-Percent Raise tract." In Canadian Ports time picture generally and in The new contract gave Lakes Handed 'Contract' the SIU family of unions. They Seafarers a five per cent across- On-November 7, aboard ships man ships under Canadian the-board pay increase; provided operated by some member com­ flag across-the-board—deep sea a 44-hour week through the 1961 Montreal Holds Steady Quebec Shipping Slow off the Atlantic Coast, on the navigation season; set up a central panies of the Association, engi­ MONTREAL — Snipping neld neers were handed a "contract" .QUEBEC — Shipping has been Canadian West Coast, on the pay fund entirely administered steady early last month as sis ves­ slow here because of the full grain Great Lakes and the Seaway. by the Union and improved various allegedly reached with the Great sels which had been laid up were Lakes and Eastern District of the elevator, but increased activity is The Canadian SIU also repre­ overtime rules. reactivated In the Lakes-Seaway expected when Port Churchill sents large groups of Canadian In its fight on Canadian-owned . National Association of Marine trade. Three deep sea vessels were Engineers. closes. A dredge and a tug operat­ tugboatmen, dredgemen and al­ runaways and on British-flag inva­ also serviced here. ing in Pjort Cartier wfll provide lied crafts. The Canadian Dis­ sion of the Canadian domestic But, four years ago, members of First of the reactivated ships the NAME voted to merge with the winter jobs. trict works closely with the trades, the Canadian SIU succeed­ was the Beaconsfieid canaiier Red- other SIU unions throughout ed in signing an agreement with SIU Canadian District, thus mak­ fern, followed by the Patterson The MV Eskimo has been re­ ing the group legally dead,^ paired and has picked up a steel North America and the mutual one such ship at the request of steamers Saskadoc, Fort Wildoc relationship has been of great k The "agreement" was. signed by load for British ports. The first the British crew wiiich manned and Coteaudoc. The Scott Misener advantage to all SIU members. her. Assistance was also provided ' ! Richard Greaves and M. Carson, canaller Wheaton took' on a full tanker has unloaded its first cargo both associated with the red-tinged of oil for the new British Petro­ to British and other seamen seek­ ,!< crew and the Norco (Ahearn) was ing improvements in their condi­ Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, reactivated. leum refinery recently completed Transport and General Workers. when the SlU-contracted dredge tions while they were in Canadian waters. I , Called 'Yellow Dog' John Holden finished her six- months job. Canadian Another step foreward taken by I' > The "contract," wich the Cana­ Toronto Is Active the SIU Canadian District was the dian District called "yellow dog" 'I'ORONTO—Toronto remains an 4, 4> signing of Miron Freres Limited I . and "a sellout," would have cut active port despite the new Owen ^ 1'' New Owen Sound Hall SIU Men to its fivst union contract. The salaries of second engineers by Sound hall and the summer tie-up company's Oka Sand and Gravel of ships. From January 1 to .Octo­ .OWEN SOUND — The Owen I •' $31.91; sliced $26.51 from the pay Division signed an agreement with of third engineers: cut vacation ber 24 there were 1,156 ratings Sound liall has moved to new and larger quarters at 1002 Second Start Vote the SIU on behalf of its marine pay by more than half; destroyed shipped from Toronto. workers in September. Port Agent Dick Hardiman re­ Avenue East overlooking the har­ MONTREAL—Election of offi­ the closed shop; given up -retro­ cers of the SIU Canadian District Atlantic Trade activity; committed engineers to a ports that the SIU secured $289 bor. for a member injured on the As the season draws to a close got underway recently after a de­ Early in the 1960 navigation sea­ 48-hour week for four years, and for lay caused by the need to print son, the SlU-contracted MV Es­ a final piece of arrogance, forced Alexander Leslie in September. here, more and more ships are laying up with a total of six in new ballots. Voting is taking place kimo entered the Atlantic trade, the engineers to pay the CBRT, t t 4. at headquarters, outports and marking the return of the Cana­ through Greaves and Carson, five Owen Sound harbor. Early last Vancouver Donates month saw the first heavy snow­ aboard ships. dian flag to the Atlantic. dollars per month, which is a dol­ VANCOUVER — The SIU- Hal C. Banks, secretary-treas­ Several' victories over the CBRT lar a month more than SIU dues. fall. manned SS Waitomo (Union SS of 4) 4^ 4^ urer, is unopposed for the top post were registered during the year. When the ships berthed, the en­ New Zealand) ran up on the reef in the Union. Also unopposed is The SIU won over the railroad gineers walked off followed by at the entrance to a Samoan har­ L. McLaughlin, assistant secretary- union in an election in the Federal unlicensed men. On November 10, Fort William Fair bor jn October and was freed FORT WILLIAM — Shipping at treasurer (Eastern). M. Sheehan is Commerce "and Navigation Com­ Starr promised a meeting with three days later. The ship pro­ candidate for Montreal patrolman pany when the firm returned to engineers and also, promised: that the Lakehead has been fair as the ceeded to 'Vancouver under her ore trade slowed down for Cana­ while D. Swait and J. Hunter are the Canadian flag, bringing a 100- negotiations with the SIU Licensed own power and after repairs in candidates for Montreal Dis­ job potential into the Union. Division would continue; that the dian ships. The ore dock closed drydock, went back into service. the fourth week of November. The patcher. On the West Coast, seafarers slashes and cohditions in the Other Candidates SIU men in Vancouver donated port continues to average 10 ships with Mackenzie Barge & Marine, Greaves-CBRT contract would not more than $200 to buy a wheel­ Rod Heinekey of Vancouver is Canadian National Steamship and be' put in effect. With these assur­ a day in grain with no ships tied chair for Brother Pat Tressler who up locally. running unopposed for assistant Kingcome Navigation all chose the ances, engineers and unlicensed contracted polio earlier this year. secretary-treasurer (Western). J. SIU over the red-tinged CBRT. ^men returned to their ships. Grain elevator projects are Campbell and W. Sawadsky are 4« • 4» underway at Port Arthur which candidates for Vancouver port Thorold Solves Beef ' will raise storage capacity by agent, while J. Bloomfield, A. SIU Canadian THOKOLD—A major beef was 6,150,000" bushels, bringing total Brough, T. Osborne, C. Neville solved here recently, according to lake- head capacity to 17,000,000 are candidates for Vancouver District Halls agent Paul Gagne. huohcis. patrolman. 4> 4> 4> FORT WiLLWM 408 Simps; n St. Brother Irving Benson was fired Paql Gagne is Thorold port Onlarlo Phone: 3-2.''21 from the Chicago Tribune by the agent candidate and H. Cahill is HALIFAX, N.S 128'4 Hollis St. chief engineer for no reason. The Halifax Calls On Board Thorold patrolman candidate. R. Phone 3-snil crew took a stand and Benson re- HALIFAX — Contract negotia­ Turcotte and A. Paton are candi­ MONTREAL . . 634 St. James St. West ceiv|d all money due him. tions between the SIU and the dates for Toronto port agent. W. victor 2-8J61 QUEBEC 44 Sault-au-Malelot Dock employees at Ei'ieau have CPR for the Princess Heien,e have Glasgow is candidate for port Quebec LAfontaine 3-l.'569 submitted their demand for a new gone before a Board of Concilia­ agent at Fort William and J THOROLD, Ontario 52 St. David St. contract before their present tion. The compahy, pleading "pov­ Royce is Fort William patrolman CAnal 7-52ia agreement expires at the end of erty," has tried to fob off a con­ candidate. Roy Doucet is the Que­ TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. B. this month. tract which would have lowered bec port agent candidate and Stan EMpire 4-5719 VANCOUVER. BC . 298 Main St; Shipping has been good, here wages, eliminated security, and es­ Devine fs randidate for port ST. JOHN, NB .177 Prince William St recently. tablished an open shop. agent in Halifax. OX 2-5431 I..V mr t/ \ct •' • • •-•••• ry ^ race Twenty-Tw» SEAFARERS LOG .December, UM W-.:- r

ALASKA SS PACT NETS SIU Pacific District Members Ratify Wage Hike 7% FOR SlU PACIFIC DISTRICT CREWMEN SAN FRANCISCO—The three unions of the SIU Pacific District—the Sailors Union, Marine Cooks and Marine Fire­ •l. -N" ill- men—have reached an agreement with the Alaska Steamship ••S' Company calling for a 7 per-> cent increase in wages, over-' Alaska Steamship negotiates :; S/f,, time, penalty and cargo rates, separately from the Pacific Mari­ and for improvements in welfare time Association. The Alaska benefits. Steamship agreement, however, follows closely the lines of the agreement reached between the three SIU unions and the PMA SIU Unions Man late in October. Besides the wage and overtime Two New Mariners increases, retroactive to October 1, SAN FRANCISO—The construc­ the company agreed to contribute tion of a brand new SS Philippine five cents per man per day to an Obviously satisfied with the gains scored in their behalf, members of the SIU Pacific Bear got under way here last optical care program, as well as District unions voted overwhelmingly last month to accept the new wage agreement month when the keel was laid for five cents a day for medical centers reached with the Pacific Maritime Association. Besides the 7 percent across-the-board the $13 million Mariner-type when centers are established in increase in wages and overtime, the agreement also calls for added contributions for freighter at the Bethlehem Steel ports other than San Francisco. optical care and medical centers. The above photo shows the ratification meeting at yard to be manned by members Both the Alaska Steamship and of the MFOW, MCS and SUP. PMA Increases were won under MCS headquarters in San Francisco. The keel laying marked the start the terms of wage reopening of a two-ship construction project clauses in the three-year con­ for Pacific Far East Lines which tracts which expire next Septem­ will give the company an all- ber 30. Feminine MCS Members Show Mariner fleet in about seven years. The keel for the new SS China Bear will be laid shortly.. The Philippine Bear is sched­ Matson Hits Ladies Are Good Sailors, Too uled to be launched in mid-1961 and to be completed by the end of the same year. When completed, New Port the new ship, and later her sister SAN FRANCISCO—The Pacific ship, will operate in PFE's Cali­ District crew of two Mcjtson liners fornia-Far East trade. —the Mariposa and Monterey—are The company is planning still going to be treated to the sight of more modern vessels in a new pro­ a new South Pacific island, it has gram that will get under way in been announced. The new port of 1970. call is Raratonga, in the" Cook Is­ land group, which frow now on will be a regular stopping point for both Pacific District Ship Pacific District-contracted ships. To Carry Automobiles Raratonga, a protectorate of New SAN FRANCISCO—The freighter Zealand, is inhabited mostly by SS Hawaiian Fisherman of Mat- Polynesians. It has no pier facil­ son Lines, which is under contract ities or launch service, but the is­ •. '''• landers are expected to board the to the unions of the SIU Pacific District, is being converted into a ships, while they are at anchor, special automobile carrier by to entertain and to display' their Pacific Ship Repair, Inc. handicrafts. : iff The contract calls for Pacific A special postman will also board Ship Repair to modify the Fisher­ the ships to stamp letters with the man to provide a total capacity of distinctive Cook Island postmark. 464 compact and standard sized The Matson liner will hit Rara­ cars. tonga about a day and a half after Matson will operate the special they leave Tahiti, heading south. — 'V auto carrier on a triangular route Outside of irregular inter-island between San Francisco, Los An­ boats, Raratonga's only contact with geles and Honolulu. The ship is ex­ the outside world is by a small pected to carry her first load of steamer from New Zealand 10 cars to the islands next month. times a year. Part of the lar^e contingent of women members in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Un­ ion, are shown in the Union's San Francisco headquarters. Two Matson Line vessels car­ Pacific District Shipping ry waitresses, while other women serve in various steward department jobs. Port SUP MFOW MC&S Total SAN FRANCISCO—Seafarers may like to think was greatly increased when the Matson liner Mari­ 10/18 to 11/14 11/1 to 11/31 11/1 to 11/31 they're doing a "man's work," but there's a fair posa went to sea, carrying for the first time on share of women in the industry, too—particularly the West Coast 29 waitresses, one yeomanette and San Fran. 742 169 573 1,484 on the West Coast passenger liners under con­ one hostess. With the launching of two more Mat- Seattle tract to the unions of the SIU Pacific District. son passenger vessels, still more jobs were opened 92 66 55 213 That's the result of a Matson line poiicy of em­ for^ womem Portland 51 48 38 137 ploying waitresses on two of the company's new Apparently, the novel experiment has been' suc­ A passenger ships. cessful because Matson has continued the practice Wilmington 349 (no hall) 96 445 Women have been traditionally employed on the of employing women for these jobs. New York . 79 44 61 184 West Coast ships for many years, in such jobs as The waitress jobs have been restricted to two stewardess, nurse, children's nurse, telephone and ships, tl^ Mariposa and Matsonia, because of a New Orleans 64 (no hall) 2 66 PBX operators, beauticians, hostess, librarian, maritime law stating that segregation of sexes ,— yeomanette and waitress. must be maintained aboard the ships. The MCS. Honolulu 24 44 22 90 It was not until late in 1956, however, that women representative points out that the union is not I; San Pedro (no hall) 55 (no hall) 55 really came into their own in the industry. quarreling with the law but does question the Prior to 1956, there were only about 45 Jobs shipowner's contention that it would be difficult Total 1,401 426 847 2.674 available to women on the West Coast ships. In' to-arrange living quarters flexible enough to per­ October of 1956, however, the number of Jobs mit Jobs being taken.

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MFOW Men Take Coffee Break 53 VYING FOR 17 POSTS IN SUP ELECTION; MCS, MFOW VOTING CONTINUES SAN FRANCISCO—^Members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific began voting Decem­ ber 1 on the 53 candidates who are competing for the 17 elective positions lis'ted on the SUP ballot. The election, which is being conducted in all SUP halls during the regular busi­ ness hours, will run through January 31. Meanwhile, voting is continuing in the elections of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the Marine Firemen's Union. In the MCS election, which got under way No- •"vember 1 and will continue through the end of December, 78 candidates are competing MCS, SUP Voting On for 15 elective offices. In the MFOW election, which got under Relaxing at coffee tirtie in the ittessroom of the President Constitution Changes way November 7 and will continue Monroe (APL) are the following black gang crewmem- through the end of January, 45" bers (1 to r) John Bruce, Jesse Stashin, Ed Auzion, SAN FRANCISCO—Besides voting for new officers, mem­ candidates have been certified for Charles White, Thomas Collins and Bernard Zetumer, bers of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the Sailors the 16 union-wide and port posi­ Union of the Pacific are also voting on constitutional changes. tions on the ballot. In addition, all members of the Marine Firemen's Union. the Firemen have nominated six Members of the Marine Fire--*- members for positions to run as men's Union approved a new amended constitution as a whole. delegates to the SIUNA conven­ constitution in September, On the shipping rule change, the tion in Puerto Rico next year. following its passage by an 8-1 members are yoting '^yes" or "no" SUP Election Pacific Port News margin in a 90-day referendum on a proposal which would give which ended August 31. men on a laid-up ship the privilege Besides the 53 candidates seeV The MCS ballot this year con­ of returning to their ship provided ing the 17 headquarters and port forming their job and encourage positions on the SUP ballot, five Honolu/u Terminals Due other members to seek this role. tains six constitutional .changes the ship has not been laid up more proposed by the constitutional com­ than 21 days, inclusive. The pres­ candidates are running for the five (HONOLULU—Piers 7 and 8 be­ jobs open as SUP building corpora­ ing torn down lb make way for mittee. These deal with seniority, ent rule provides that the ship election safeguards, charges, and must not be laid up more than 10 tion trustfees, and five are running new terminals .. . When ,complet- for the four positions as delegates ed, terniiinals should rank with best Portland Office Painted a proposed hall in Honolulu. days, inclusive. SUP members, besides voting for to the SIUNA convention. in States, says MFOW agent . . . PORTLAND—MCS reports its The Committee on constitution, Morris Weisberger, SUP secre­ .;AISO, State Legislature will take officers, are also voting on an in making its report to the mem­ hall and offices here have been amended constitution and on a tary-treasurer, is running opposed. up inter-island ferry question when newly painted . . . SUP says report bership, pointed out that some of Also unopposed are the San Fran­ It meets in January . . . Three fcr- proposed change in one of the the constitutional changes were on wage negotiations with Pacific shipping rules. cisco dispatcher, first and second Iries have been recommended for Maritime Association overwhelm­ recommended for reasons of econ­ patrolmen at San Francisco, New |nter-island"~runs . . . Hawaii's Placing the constitutional pro­ omy. With the exception of these, ingly concurred in . . . SUP mem­ posal and the proposed shipping York agent and New York patrol­ healthy, and ships calling there are bers also heard Asa Williams, pres­ the proposed constitution sets forth man. In good shape, says SUP agent . . . rule change on the ballot was rec­ existing SUP practices and qhanges ident of District Council of Car­ ommended by the SUP Committee There are three candidates for |Jo men in hospital at last report. penters, report on progress of required by law, particularly the the post as assistant - secretary- on Constitution elected on Octo­ Landrum-Griffin Act. "Portland Reporter," new newspa­ ber 17, and was approved by the treasurer, 11 for third patrolman t 5. > per being supported by SIU. and Comparison of the proposed and at San Francisco, four for engine members on October 31. present constitution have been run other West Coast unions. On the constitutional proposal, and steward patrolman at San iSan Fran Gets 2 C-3's paragraph by paragraph in the Francisco, two for Seattle agent, the SUP members are voting "yes" SUP newspaper, "West Coast Sail­ SAN FRANCISCO — MFOW or "no" on adoption of the proposed three for Seattle patrolman, four members looking', forward to man­ ors," and copies have also been for Portland agent, 10 for Portland ning two C-3's they're familiar San Pedro Ships Firemen posted at headquarters and in all patrolman, three for Wilmington with ... These are SS William SAN PEDRO — MFOW reports branches. agent, two for Wilmington patrol­ Luckenbach and SS. F. J. Lucken- 96 men shipped here during last Pac. Dist. Fleet man, three for engine, and steward bach . . . They've been bought reported four-week period ... Wip­ patrolman at Wilmington, and two by Pope & Talbot and'are being ers led list with 27, oilers had 16, SIU Pacific for Honolulu agent. renamed P&T Pathfinder jnd Catalina reliefs, 15, and FWT's, 13, To Be Modernized 102 Nominated P&T Seafarer, respectively . . . SAN FRANCISCO—The Weyer- District Halls A total of 102 book members SUP has advised its members that ^ ^ t- t- hauser Steamship Company, whose were nominated for the 17 SUP Welfare Plan office is making up ships are manned by SIU Pacific SUP posts when . nominations were permanent ID cards which will HONOLULU ...... Pier 8. Room 206 Seattle Will Mark Xmas District members, has announced PHone 502-777 opened originally at the regular eliminate necessity of obtaining SEATTLE—Members here plan­ NEW ORLEANS 523 BienvUle St. that it plans to modernize its fleet Jackson 5-7428 meeting at headquarters and the new cards every year . . . MCS re­ ning annual Christmas party, says of intercoastal vessels at a cost of NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn branches on October 17. In addi­ ports it is preparing ship's delegate HVacinth 9-6605 MFOW . . . Many members have $51.^ million. The modernization PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. tion, 21 candidates were nominated handbook to aid delegjates in per- already made donations and crew program will also add 15 years of Cj^itol 3-4336 for the five regular positions as SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St of MV Susitna brought in party life to the eight Liberty ships Douglas 2-8363 SUP building corporation trustees, delicacies from Juenau . . . Mem­ SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. MCS In Seattle making up the fleet. Main 2-0290 and 22 members were nominated bers here looking forward to medi­ Alterations Listed WILMINGTON 505 Marine Ave. for the four posts as delegates-at- cal and optical programs negotiat­ Terminal 5-6617 Boosts Blood Bank The program includes renewal large to the SIUNA convention. 'y ed in PMA agreement, MCS re­ MC&S SEATTLE — The Seattle of crew quarters and of piping and The nominations remained open, ports . . . Alaska SS may get new HONOLULU Room 206, Pier 8 in accordance with the SUP con­ branch of the Marine Cooks wiring systems. New folding pon­ PHone 5-1714 and Stewards Union reports charters for a couple of Libertys NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. stitution, through Monday, Novem­ as it did last year . . . This would toon hatch covers will be installed, RAmond 7-428 that it has re-registered all the ent shipping rule provides that the NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn ber 14. Following the deadline, non-seniority men onto a spe­ be a big help to this port, says HYacinth 9-6600 the duly elected Committee on SUP. . and the ships' hulls will be PORTLAND..... 211 SW Clay St. cial shipping list in accordance strengthened after some bulkheads CApitoI 7-,3223 Candidates examined the qualifica­ SAN FRANCISCP 350 Fremont St. tions of all candidates and prepared with the l^eniority rules. are removed. The engines will be EXbrook 7-5600 Each noh-seniority man who _ 3> J- ^ SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. the ballot. overhauled but there will be no MAin 3-0088 donates blood to the branch's change in the ships' present WILMINGTON 602 Broad Ave. The Committee on candidates, Wilmington Advises MDs TErminal 4-8538 elected at the headquarters meet­ account at the Kings County propulsion system. WILMINGTON—As-a result of ing of October 31, consisted of Blood Bank will have his name A company spokesman said MFOW acjvanced 10 places on, the list. numerous complaints from mem­ HONOLULU. ..56 North Nimitz Highway Fred Jensen, Douglas Crute, A1 bers, SUP here has advised com­ Weyerhauser would finance the PHone 5-6077 Lambert, Knud Anderson and The Seattle, branch claims entire program without govern­ NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. that,, as a ,result, of its action, pany doctors that they have no . MAgnolia 0404 Charles Russo. mental assistance. NEW YORK 130 Greenwich St. it probably has (the richest right to ask seamen being exam­ COrtland 7-7094 Besides voting for new officers, ined to surrender; their seamen's Weyerhauser is a common carrier PORTLAND 522 NW Everett St. MCS" and SUP members are also ,blood bank of any union on the CApitol 3-7297-8 West Coast, . At the last report, papers . .. . MCS reports discussion of lumber from Pacific to East SAN FRANCISCO...... 240 Second St. voting on constitutional changes in Coast ports, and of general .cargo - • > DOuglas 2-4592 nvade at the, end of. November, with Pacific District medica) pro­ SAN. PEDRO..-v.: JS96 West 7th. St. line with the revisions required gram committee re'lative to some on \yestbound voyages from Phila­ TErmin.al 3-4485 in union constitutions by Landrum- .,41, pints .were pn baiyii ., ,, SEATTLE ..2333 Western Ave. r>. of particular problems of this i>ort. delphia and. Baltimore. . - MAin-2;832e Griffin. See story on this page. 11: Pas* Twenty-J'ear SEAFARERS LOG December. Uf(| RR Dreams Up Way To End KNOWING YOUR Shore Leave^ Longshore Jobs SIU CONTRACT . ^'C'" '! TJ:- NEW YORK—^The New York Central Railroad has come up with a new cargo-loading gimmick that would do away with the jobs of longshoremen altogether—if it worked. The SECTION 57. TRANSPORTATION AND PAYING OFF PROCEDURE I ?; new system involves the use of a heavy-duty helicopter which would transfer containers "I. (b) It is also agreed that the Articles shall terminate at the final port of discharge In the contjnentai United States of Amerioa. If the directly from railroad flatcars^ final port of discharge is located in an area other than the area in to the deck- of a freightship.' River. Just in case, a Coast Guard structions, a helicopter could load the continentai United States in which is located the port of engage­ While skeptical ship opera­ launch cruised alongside the sl^ip the ship without the operator hav­ ment, first-class transportation shall be provided to only those men tors looked on, the helicopter as the helicopter's rotor blades ing to come into a dock. This, of who leave the vessel, pins wages and subsistence to port of engagement lifted the container off a Wee- flirted with the ship's booms. course, would save considerably on in continentai United States . . . hawken dock and deposited it on Theoretically, at least, given docking fees as welLa's longshore the deck of a United States Lines container type ship with a deck wage costs. Igor Sikotiky, aviation "(f) It is further agreed that if within 30 days of signing clear of freighter anchored in the Hudson free of cargo booms and other ob- designer whose firm built the heli­ the articles, a seaman who accepted first-class railroad transportation copter, Imagined a ship discharg­ in cash presents himself in the company's or agent's office at the port ing and loading cargo without ever of engagement, he shall be paid an amountNequal to wages- and sub­ coming into port. What this would sistence for the number of days ordinarily required to travel from port do to a shipload of seanien suffer^ of signing off back to the port of engagement." ing from channel fever can well be A commonplace misunderstanding that arises on SIU ships deals with imagined. the subject of transportation back to the port of engagement. It is Lifts 4,400-Lb. Box normai for many ships, before going offshore, to run coast wise, or The Federal Bureau of Public absolved of the charges because In the demonstration, the heli­ intercoastal, making a number of stops and picking up replacements Roads has frozen all payments in­ of lack of evidence. Doherty said copter hoisted a 20-foot cargo con­ here and there. Then the foreign articles will be signed at the iast stop volving Federal funds to a bitterly he regarded bis vindication as a tainer weighting 4,400 pounds. The in the continental United States. For example, a ship might cail at S?" . anti-union Florida roadbuilder, "demonstration of democracy." maximum capacity of the model Boston, Norfolk, New York, Baltimore and Mobile, and then sign foreign Cone Bros. Contracting Co., as a of helicopter involved is five tons, articles in New Orleans before going offshore. result of charges that the firm ^ i but presumably, bigger 'copters made payoffs to state road inspec­ Two of three automotive giants could take on more of a load. If such a ship should pay off on the West Coast, for example, it is tors for various contracts. At the —Ford and General Motors—have Even so,- industry spokesmen not unusual to find some crewmembers expecting transportation same time, the State Road Depart­ flatly-jejected a proposal that la­ pointed out, unloading a ship by back to the port of sign-on—namely. New Orleans. Actually, as the ment revoked the certificates of bor and management hold regular contract clearly specifies, the transportation is payable back to the qualification of the firm and its meetings to.discuss mutual prob­ port of engagement—jnot the port where the foreign articles were subsidiaries, a move which bars the lems. Such meetings—which would signed. For example, seamen who shipped to the vessel in Baltimore company from even bidding on fu­ not be concerned with collective would get transportation, on the basis of first-class railroad fare, back ture new road jobs. Cone Bros., bargaining—were first suggested to that city. which has received $11.7 million in by President Eisenhower in Oc­ Section 57 (f) also makes it clear that the Seafarer must present road contracts since 1958, has con­ tober. United Auto Workers Presi­ himself at the port of engagement within 30 days in order to get wages sistently fought any and all union dent Walter Reuther followed up and subsistence for his travei time back to that port from the port of organizational efforts. Several the suggestion with letters to the payoff. The travel subsistence is at the rate of $& a day, in addition to months ago, the Tampa AFL-CIO heads of the three auto firms. So the rail transportation, which covers lower berth sleeping facilities Building Trades Council called for far, he "has received replies from where needed. a strike in an effort to gain recog­ Ford and General Motors, both of nition. which have turned down the pro­ 4' 4 4> posal. It's expected that Chrysler will act similarly. o Letter Carriers' President Wil­ liam C. Doherty has been absolved 4" 4" 4^ MA Gains On Liberty of charges that he violated the The Retail Clerks' National Hatch Act when he allowed his Chain Store Committee last month name to be used in a pre-conyen- voted to intensify the union's na­ tion advertisement promoting Lyn­ tionwide boycott against Sears, Fleet, 'Only' 1,300 Left don Johnson for the presidency. Roebuck and Co., which started The decision was made by the last May after a Sears store in San WASHINGTON—The Maritime Administration is making Civil Service Commission, which Francisco laid off 262 of its work­ modest headway in its program of disposing of over-age Lib­ announced that Doherty had been ers for honoring the picket lines Of er tys in the nation's boneyard fleet. After some three years the Machinists Union. The leaders of sales, the MA has succeed--*•" * of the Retail Clerks plan to ad­ this method would be a long, ed in selling 288 ships, leaving War II emergency ait a cost dt be­ Get Polio Shots, vise union members and the pub­ drawn-out process. a modest 1,300 left in the re­ tween $1,300,000 and $1,700,00() lic of Sears anti-labor policies and After the demonstration, all of serve. each—and the World: War II dollar PHS Urges also to step up demonstrations in the guests retired to the Biltmore The Public Health Service The Liberty disposal program was worth about twice as much as various cities served by Sears. Hotei for lunch—courtesy of the .today's currency. urges Seafarers who have not is' complicated by the fact that railroad — where the railroad's m^ss sales would flood the scrap Asking More BiJi already done so to get their 4> 4" 4?- president, Alfred Perlman, made a polio shots as soon as possible. market. Originally the Maritime At present^ Maritime has asked AFL-CIO unions took part in speech hailing the system as a Administratioi) had set a floor for bids for another 30 ships to The shots can be gotten at any 1,146 representation elections, win­ labor-saving" device. "We must PHS hospital without charge. price pf $60,000 in the American foreign buyers at the $90,000 min­ ning 581 of them, during the third cut waste" (i.e., waterfront jobs) market and $90,000 to foreign scrap imum. But on the domestic market, Plenty of vaccine is available so quarter of this year, according to to compete with totalitarian coun­ there is no delay in the admin­ dealers. Consequently It had to of­ it is offering the ships without the National Labor Relations tries," he said. He called for "co­ fer the ships in dribs and drabs in minimum bids, and, is accepting istering of the shots. The few Board. The NLRB reported that operation" between ships and rail­ minutes a Seafarer takes to in­ order to make sales. purchase prices of $'45,000 and iip there were 37,803 workers in bar­ roads in the transportation field. —all of which makes if a good deal sure himself against the crip­ gaining units which voted for'rep­ The New York Central, like Up until now, the program has pling disease by getting the realized about - $21,250,000. The to be in the scrap business. resentation by AFL-CIO affiliates. other eastern railroads, has from One reason for the_ disposal of shots are well worth the saving During the first nine months of time to time juggled its long and vessels were built during the World of time, money and, most of all, the shiifs at such modest prices is 1960, 1,808 elections were won, short haul rates so as to deprive the cutback in the Maritime'Ad­ the avoidance of suffering and as compared with 1,720 in 1959, ac­ coastwise ship operations of vari­ possible disability. ministration's budget for " main­ cording to the NLRB. ous cargo offerings. tenance of reserve fleet ships. This ife '61 Outlook; put pressure on the agency to "un­ !§• load ships or face the prospect of Japanese Unionists Study SIU Aeaith Center Five, Million them becoming true rustbuckets. Unemployed WASHINGTON—Economic fore­ casts on unemployment indicate that as many as 5,300,000 Ameri­ cans will be out of work this winter. The forecast is based upon traditional seasonal increases in unemployment in the winter months. The figure could go higher '•iC\ unless economic conditions im­ prove sharply this winter. ft' The estimate of total unemploy­ • p'l?'' ment over five million is based • t'H. on mid-October figure showing 3,579,000 Americans out of work. Normally, winter months see a rise in unemployment because winter weather shuts down con­ struction activity, roadbuilding, €BAF^ARER& agricultural employment and ship­ ping on the Great Lakes and many inland^ waterways. Railroad car- Visiting Japanese trade union team, one of many foreign union delegations to visit loadings, mining and trucking also SIU, gets briefing on operations of SIU health center^ from Dr. Joseph Logue, medical drop off in the winter, particularly director, (fight, back to camera). Group toured SIU's headquarters facilities. after, the Christmas holidays. Deib(»fcer, l96i SEAFAkERS LOG Pace Twen^-Five

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Industrial Union Members Are Weekend Football Pros Regjonal NLRB Rejects ^s|•^1 Charges By 'Independenf 1 In Jay-Kay Plant Vote NEW YORK—An "independent" union's eleventh hour tac­ tics aimed at forestalling the certification of the SIU's Marine Allied Workers Division as bargaining agent for the em­ ployees of the Jay-Kay Cor-'*- poration failed miserably as minutes resulted in the "alleged" the National Labor Relations pro-SlU employees being paid Board in New York recommended overtime and, therefore, that the to its head office in Washington employer, by cooperating with the that all charges leveled against the MAWD was, in effect, paying the MAWD by Local 355 after the re­ voters to cast their ballots for the cent NLRB election be thrown out MAWD. striking a pose familiar to sports fans are four MAWD'members of the Hussmann Re­ and that the MAWD be certified as • That the employer's (Jay- frigeration Co, All are weekend professional players for the Swedesboro 'NJ) Devils. Jay-Kay employees' bargaining Kay's) further efforts to insure vot­ From left: Frank Steedley, Thomas Meron, Norman Wilson and Sal Caltabiano. agent as soon as it's feasible. ing by pro-SlU workers were ap­ The workers of Jay-Kay had parent In the unsuccessful attempt voted overwhelmingly for MAWD by two official observers to per­ representation in the NLRB elec­ suade platform employees to vote These Are Your tion held a few weeks ago here. late in the afternoon on voting Welfare Benefit Totals Almost immediately after the polls day. had closed, however, the Amalga­ • That Amalgamated officials Union Meetings mated union worked up several had to remain across the street —Attend Them! allegations against the MAWD and from the polling place while Hit $9,640 Last Month filed them with the Labor Board MAWD officials were allowed to in an attempt to not only forestall congregate near the voting booth. All unron^ members should The Marine Allied Workers Division Welfare Plan paid out the certification of the election but In the Regional National Labor regularly aftend the member­ 100 benefit claims to MAWD members or their dependents also as an excuse for it to continue Relations Board report released at ship meetings in their area. during the month of November, according to the Plan, This collecting dues from Jay-Kay New York it was announced that was slightly higher than the'*' workers who had heretofore re­ all charges were thoroughly in­ These meetings are devoted 96 claims paid out during Oc­ received benefit payments during ceived little or nothing in return vestigated by NLRB staff members to discussions of matters vital to tober, and came to a total of the month. for them. The main "charges" filed and that in each instance that the welfare and security of $9,640.25, with the Board were: MAW® or Jay-Kay was charged by every MAWD member and his Three most sizable benefits Meet Your Shop Steward • That the Board Agent's exten­ Local 355, all such allegations wero family. among the 100 paid out went to; sion of the voting period by 37 found to be "without merit," Lewis Atkinson of Schaevitz Engi­ What's more, these meetings neering, $795.70; George Baker, of Arthur Shepard provide every MAWD member Hill-Chase Steel, $732.85 and Ber- with the opportunity to speak up nice Vigoreta, $611.60. All dis­ MAWD Acts In Six Ports and state his views obout these bursements to the three covered Of Wire Rope vital matters. hospital, surgical and disability Arthur Shepard, a lonjgtime em­ benefits. ployee of Wire Rope Trading Co., Here is the schedule of the One maternity benefit was paid at 17th Street On Constitution, Officials next meetings: out during the .month^ It went to and Willow Ave., Vincent Murillo of Airmaster Cor­ Hoboken, is the NEW YORK-Tuesday, Jan­ poration. He received a check in shop steward uary 3, at 7 PM, SlU Half, 675 the amount of $182.50, representing his Fourth Ave,, B'klyn. Airmaster Benefits fellow MAWD Of the benefits paid out to member workers BALTIMORE - Friday, Janu­ at the Jersey ary 6, at 8 FM, SlU Hall, 1216 MAWD members or their depend­ ents, during November, those em­ firm. E. Baltimore St. ployed at Airmaster Corp,, .Phila­ Shepard, a 36- year old truck SUNBURY - Sunday, Janu­ delphia, collected the largest number among MAWD-contracted driver for Wire Rope, first started ary 8, at 2 PM,' Friendship with the firm in 1946 as a cable Fire Company. plants, while seven claims were paid out to employees of Schaevitz helper. His job was to assist in cutting and re-rolling cable used PHILADELPHIA - Tuesday, Engineering, Six Paulsen-Webber workers received benefits during aboard ship and in aircraft. After January 10, at 7:30 PM, SlU two years, he was promoted to the Hall, 2604 S. 4th Street. November, Three employees of Hill-Chase Steel, Baltimore, also position of truck driver. He liked 4- this job so well he's still at it. Brother Shepard, a native North Carolinean, is married and lives in Three-man rank-and-file balloting committee was elected New York with his wife Doris and at last MAWD meeting in NY to count ballots on con­ With SlU Industrial Workers a son, Edward, 4^^ years. His off- stitution voting, . L-r are W. F. Swann, Nilsen & Mills • This is one in a series of features whith the SEAFARERS LOG duty interests are confined mainly iinll publish regarding members of SlU-affiliated unions working in to attending sports events—espe­ shop steward :W,A, Buccarelli, Durham Canvas, and maritime production and allied fields. cially baseball and football games. Tony Fasano, Standards Metals shop steward, NEW YORK — MAWD members in six ports met earlier The news on this page deals BROTHER CHARLES CARTER BROTHER ERIC B. HAGEN Is this month to discuss a proposed new constitution and to se­ with people working under the lect nominees for five official union posts. The nominees go Is employed by the MAWD-con- a set-up man and tool grinder with SIU banner in. shoreside estab­ tracted Seatrain ^ the MAWD-con- lishments engaged in. maritime on the ballot for interim posts Lines of Texas - " • - ^ tracted Milo Ma­ production and allied fields. to be filled by secret ballot on ports have received a copy of the City, Texas, as a chine Co., of 72 January 3, At this time, the proposed new constitution, along Included among the items with an instruction sheet designed shoreside worker. Sedswick St., made are cordage, canvas, voting on the proposed new^ con­ Carter has been Brooklyn, . NYs stitution will take place. Within to familiarize them with the details lifesaving equipment, ship's concerning the need for such a with the firm H a g e h became gear and related industrial 30 days or by January 6, 1961, the now for better employed at the membership will be advised by the constitution under the require­ products. Because there had ments of the Landrum-Griffin Act than 13 years, company last not been any organization avail­ MAWD Executive Board of the having first gone April after hav­ able to them, many of these results of the voting on the con­ The nominees whose names were to work'there in ing worked about workers were formerly without stitution. submitted for interim officers August, 1947. A two years at an­ any union protection, until they The first regular convention date posts at the meeting were: Steve resident of Eagle Pass, Texas, other machine shop. Milo Machine came under the SIU banner. of the Marine and Allied Workers Cardullo, for MAWD national Brother Carter is' a former ship­ Co, recently signed a new contract Developments In their area will Division will be in May of next director; Jack Miller, for Atlantic board oiler, having worked last on with the MAWD which gives a pay be reported here because they year, and at this time the member­ Coast area director; Lindsey Wil­ the SS W, L, R, Emmett. The increase and other benefits to are an impm-tant part of the ship will elect five regular offi­ liams, for Gulf Coast director; AI IMAWD member lives at 305 1st Brother Hagen . and all MAWD maritime industry. cers, Tanner, Great Lakes director and Avenue, south, In Texas City, members employed by the firm. AH MAWD members in the six Al Kerr, secretary-treasurer.

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AU of the following 5IU families have received a The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers^ $200 maternity benefit plus a $25-bond from the Welfare Plan and a total of $45,000 in benefits was paid, (Any apparfint Union in the baby's name, representing a total of delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of a benefit $8,400 in maternity benefits and a maturity value ciary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates,) of $1,050 in bonds: Philip I. Griffin. 38: Brother Edward Kctchke, 45: Brother Nork City. Burial was at St. Mary's Griffin died on May 15, 1960, in Ketchke died of injuries sustained Cemetery, Oswego, NY. Total Dawn Marie Drazawicki, born July 23, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs, an accident at during the colli­ benefit: $4,000. Thomas Drazawicki, Wilmington, Del. the Howard sion of the SS John Anthony HoiTinann, born August 23, 1960, to Seafarer arid Mrs. Hotel, Norfolk, Alcoa Corsair on 4* 4> 4' ' Eugene C. Hoffmann, New Orleans, La. Va. He began October 22, 1960. Jackie W. Graham, 30: Pneu­ Leyden Tyrone Spencer, born July 20, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. sailing in 1960 He had sailed monia was the cause of death for Robea-t T. Spencer, Mobile, Ala. as a messman. since 1951 in the Brother Graham Mrs. Mattie B. steward depart­ at the U n i o n Samuel David Thompson, born September 1, 1960, to Seafarer and Griffin of Bel- ment. Surviving Mrs. Harold W. .Thompson, Timonium, Md.. Memorial Hos­ haven, NC, was is his sister, Mrs. pital, Baltimore, Roger Dale Witherington, born September 17, 1960, to Seafarer and appointed admin­ T. Russell of Md., on May 26," Mrs. Arthur C. Witherington, Daphne, Ala. istratrix of his Woodihont, Conn. 1960. He had . Daniel V. Guilles, born August 21, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jacinto estate. Belha^n Community Ceme­ Burial was at Westlawn Memorial been sailing in Guilles, Bronx, N. Y. tery, Belhaven, NC, was the place Park, New Orleans, La. Total bene­ the engine de­ Leslie J. Gpillot, born September 20, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. of burial. Total benefit: $500. fit: $4,000. partment since Leslie J. Guillot, New Orleans, La. ^ 4> 4i 1959. Mrs. Willie John Gorman, 37: Brother Gor­ Mae Graham of Kirk A. Lund, born September 2, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Russell man died of injuries sustained Thomas Boarman, 29: Brother Lund, Sonoma, Calif. Hamlet, NC, was appointed adminr during the colli­ Boarman was assumed drowned istratrix of his estate. Burial was Jack E. Thomas, born September 8, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. sion of the SS and lost at sea in Raeford Cemetery, Raeford, NC. Houston Thomas, Jr., Mobile, Ala. Alcoa Corsair on on November 25, Total benefit: $500. Alicia K. Pavlos, born September 12, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. October 22, 1900. 1958-, while Ulachou Pavlos, San Francisco, Calif. He had been sail­ aboard the SS 4> 4> 41 John Philip Jordan, born June 9, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. John ing in the stew­ John B. Water­ Fred Turok, 53: Brother Turok Jordan, Jersey City, NJ. ard department man. He had been died of accidental Injuries on May since 1953. Sur­ sailing since 1951 30, 1960, while Raymond J. Richardson, born May 31, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. viving is his in the deck de­ Roland Richardson, Beltsville, Md. aboard the SS widow, Mrs. partment. He is Steel Apprentice. Janet Mary Borawick, born September 8, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Naomi M. Gor­ survived by his He had been sail­ Alexander Borawick, Baltimore, Md. man of New Orleans, La. Burial mother,- Mrs. ing in the stew­ Wayne Mark Douzat, Jr., born August 10, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. was in Lakelawn Park, New Or­ Margaret Boarman of Brooklyn, ard department, P. J. Douzat, Thibodaux, La. leans. Total benefit: $4,000. NY. Place of burial Is listed as at since 1946. Alex­ Gia Terez Fraone, born August 10, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fran­ sea. Total benefit: $4,000. andra A1 b a n 0 cisco Fraone, New Orleans, La. James E. Cornelius, 41; A heart and Ann Roth ailment was listed as the cause of 4* 4* 4> . Mark Daniel Gilas, bom flpctober 2, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. were appointed death for Brother George Griswold, 57: A heart ail­ Walter Gilas, Brooklyn, NY. : joint administra­ Cornelius on May ment was the cause of death for trix of his estate. Burial was id Suzanne Johnson, born October 4, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Claud 10, 1960 .at Gal­ , [;, ••.- Broth C'r Groswold Long Island National Cemetery*, Johnson, Destin, Fla. veston, Texas. He on September 18, Farmingdale, NY. Total benefit; ! J!>'' Karen Miller, born August .3, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. JoaquI^ had been sailing 1960 at Brooklyn, $4,000. ><;. i as'a tugboat engi­ Miller, Baltimore, Md. New York. He X i. X' , William Miller, born September 30, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. neer since 1957. had sailed since William Miller, Baltimore, Md. Surviving is his 1946 in the en­ Harry Clafk, 47; Brother Clark widow, Mrs. Bar­ gine department. died of a heart ailment gt. sea Michael Granger, born September 16, 1960, to Seafarer Sward bara Cornelius of Surviving is his aboard the SS Granger, Basile, La. Texas City, Texas. mother, Mrs. Eliz­ Penn Explorer on Gecrge Douglas Jordan, born August 11, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Galveston Memorial Park, Galves­ abeth C. Gris­ August 15, I960.: James Jordan, Mobile, Ala. ton, was the place of burial. Total wold of St. Paul, He had, been sail­ Mary Donovan, born October 5, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph benefit: $4,000. Minn. His place of burial is Rose ing in the" engine Donovan, Roxbury, Mass. 4" 4" it Lawn Cemetery, Roseville, Minn. department since Nicholas Comias, born October 22, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter B. Orman, 45: Brother Total benefit: $4,000. 1956., Surviving; Michael N. Cornias, Baltimore, Md. Orman died of injuries sustained is his. widow, Mrs.j during the colli- , 4* 4" Helen P. Cl.arki Michael Alvardo, born October 25, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose sion of the SS Francis Regan, 59: Brother Regan of Galveston,' Ciro Alvardo, Texas City, Texas. Alcoa Corsair on died at sea aboard the SS Steel Texas, riis placej Albert Robbins, born September 21, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. October 22, 1960. Voyager on Oc­ of burial is listed as at sea.. Total; Douglas Robbins, Dorsey, Miss. . He had been sail­ tober 4, 1960 as^a beriefit: $4,000. , , j, Emily Brdwer, born September 19, 19^0, to Seafarer and Mrs, Jack ing in the stew­ result of a heart 4* X 4" • " • E. Brewer, New Orleans, La. , ' ard department condition. He John McNellage, born October 24, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. John since 1947. His had been sail­ Elmer Pilkington, 41:' Brother' Pilkington died of accidental gun-- ^'1 W. McNellage, Mobile, Ala. mother, Mrs; ing in the stew­ Irma C. Pertuit ard department shot wounds on' ' Orlando Aragones, born September 20, 1960, to Seafarer and ^s. of^ SUdeU, La., since 1951. He is April 2, 1960 at Abraham Aragones, Pajardo, Puerto Rico. survives him. Burial was at St. survived by an Wayne, NC; He •K' 'T Victoria Kaduck, born September 9, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mary's Cemetery, New Orleans, La. aunt. Miss Anna had sailed in the Raymond Kaduck, Miami, Fla. Total beriefit: $4,000. Regan of New deck department' Jeremiah and George Harrington, born August 26, 1960, to Seafarer since 1959. Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Harrington^ Charleston, Mass. Esther A. Pilking­ 5 (<• Penti Explorer Honors Shipmaie. ton, his widow, of m-'i\ Cheri Ann Redding, born September 24, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Goldsboro, N C, '!:• John Redding, New Orleans, La. was named ad­ Ray Jordan, born September 25, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dewey ministratrix of his Jordan, Wilmer, Ala. estate. Burial was at Progressive Stephen Frankewicz, born September 12, 1960, to Seafarer and ]^8. Cemetery, Goldsboro. Total bene­ Stephen J. Frankewicz, Baltimore, Md. fit: $4,000. Robin Tagliafarri, born August 16, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph •'X X X ' Tagliafarri, Baltimore^ Md. Philip Bilbao, 64: A lung condition Andria Lukowski, born December 24, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. was the cause of death^or Brother Jerome Lukowski, Baltimore, Md. , Bilbao on - Sep­ Edward Burke, born October 6, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward tember 1, 1960, at Burke, Dorchester, Mass. the Spanish Terri BattagUa, born September 28, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Beneficiaries So­ Joseph Battaglia, New Orleans, La. ciety Hospital in Alma Wilkersop, born October 9, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Murray Puebla, Mexico. Wilkerson, Creola, Ala. He had sailed since 1951 in the Frances Peragallo, born October 4, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph steward depart­ Percgallo, Levittown, NY. ment. He is sur­ Laurie Pehler, born -September 14, 1960, to Seafarer and Mr$|. vived by his wid­ Frederick Pehler, Mobile, Ala. ow Mrs. Teresa R. Bilbao of Pu­ I' Tina Hatgimislos, born September 26, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Solemn last rites for Seafarer Harry Clark are. conducted ebla, Mexico. Burial was in Puebla. Kosta Hatgimislos, Philadelphia, Pa. aboard SS Penn Explorer following his death at sea. / Total benefit; $4,000. 9.1 < l'-. DMembcr, 19M SEAFARERS LOG Par* Twenty-ScTca Claiborne Crew Enioys Barbecue In Style Of Sailing Ship Days The following article, submitted to the LOG hy Seafarer C. E. Turner, T-38, steward aboard the SS Claiborne (Waterman) brings to mind the days of the old sailing ships when livestock was carried on clippers on long voyages in order to provide the crew and passengers with fresh meat. The livestock carried on the Claiborne recently, however, was partly used for a barbecue which was greatly appreciated by the crew. Being a member of the Seafarers Bass of the Bass Pecan Company To make the story short, we International Union of North of Lumberton, Miss. started with a live calf, skinned America, I know that we have been Mr. Bass has been shipping cat­ and prepared the meat, and the* first in quite a few things in the tle on this Waterman ship for some final outcome was another success- maritime industry. I think that we time and he still is. We were tak­ full barbecue. The enclosed pic­ have another "first" for us on the ing another load of cattle a few tures show the scenes of the fes­ SS Claiborne. months ago from New Oorleans. tivities, but the real proof was in We have been having barbecues Mr. Bass heard of our barbecues the eating. on deck lor quite some time. and made the generous gift which They're usualiy held on Sunday was appreciated every much by afternoons when most of our union everyone on board. F brothers are off duty. The pas­ Food For Survival Ttll it to the IfOj! sengers and officers also partic­ I understand that many years ipate in these events. ago in the days of the sailing ships, The story on our last barbecue, they carried live animals. But that however, was different. We started was food for survival. Ours was The star of the barbecue story on board the SS Claiborne with a young animal on the hoof— for recreation and the pleasant was this calf munching hay on the deck just before alive. It was given to the crew- feeling of being full of good slaughtering. The animal was donated by Mr. Bass of members of the Claiborne by Mr. barbecue. Bass Pecan Co. of Lumberton, Miss.

The barbecue calf which was slaughtered aboard ship is Enjoying the end results of a barbecue which started with a live calf are creWmembers finally cut up by Pablo Gonzalez (left) MM, and chief of the SS Claiborne. (L to r) H. W. "Buck" Weaver, deck maintenance; C. E. Turner, cook J. A. Elliot as the time draws near for feasting and steward; K Turner, OS, E. E. Ritchie, second cook; F. W. Chavers, chief electrician, and fun aboard the SS Claiborne.. . Oscar Karlbom, first engineer.

not even knowing a person. I my deepest gratitude and ap­ basis of a 30-day month. The Seafarer's Wife ' know my husband, who is now Thanks Union preciation to the Seafarers five and a half day week ap­ Passes Away working with you men, has For Needed Aid International Union and all plies only to ships in port at To the Editor: thanked you all. But I myself To the Editor: connected with it. Sincerely the week's end. 1 would like to advise my and my father wish to thank you My son, Thomas, always told yours, The pension is to be paid only many friends and shipmates all by putting this in the LOG. me, "Mother," if you ever are Margaret Boarman to contract men, and without who knew her that my wife, Thank you again. in trouble, go to my Union; they - 4 3^ going into details, is as phony Valzora H. Collins, died at home Virginia Brockett will help you." as the five and a half day week. In Brooklyn, NY, on September George Roth The receipt of your death Seaman Gives I draw this to your attention as 27, 1960. She passed away due benefit check for $4,000 proves I know that plenty of British * t t School Report seamen read the LOG when it to heart disease. how very right he was. To the Editor: Burial was at Garden City It is hard for me to put into comes their way. Offers Seamen School is not as difficult as G. Holloway Cemetery, at St. Paul, in the words my feelings about this it was in the beginning. It is state of Minnesota where she Argentine Tour matter. Indeed, 1 am grateful still a struggle to comprehend 3. i i • was born. To the Editor: r" / ' the basic concepts of subjects My many thanks to those who As a retired Seafarer and completely outside of my per­ New Orleans suffered with me at the time of pre-war member of your Union, sonal experience. Perhaps hard this loss. USPHS is Tops the SIU, I would like to advise work and perseverance will be To the Editor: Herbert Collins you of my partnership with the ^ J enough to overcome these ob­ The Public Health Service (Ed. note: Mrs. Collins, as a Argentine travel organization^ ' stacles. Sincerely yours, Hosiptal in New Orleans has retired hospital attendant, was • Delfino-Turismo. V... '•5 George F. Johnson the most efficient, most pleas­ well aware of the value of blood I shall be pleased to serve in emergencies and was one of All letters to the Editor for (Ed. note: Seafarer* George ant, and experienced staff of any Seafarer at the most inex­ publication in the^EAFARERS Johnson, of New Orleans, won doctors, nurses, nurses aides, at­ the earliest donors to the SIU pensive rates for any transport LOG must be signed by the tendants, porters and clerks. Blood Bank. Our condolences an SIU schlarship last year and within the Argentine Republic writer. Names will be withheld is attending Loyola University Every department of the hos­ to Brother Collins on his loss.) as well as for excursions or upon request. pital is wonderfully staffed. sightseeings that are arranged in New Orleans). i 1. t I've just got to say to them, Thanks Crew by us with the lowest possible for all you have done for me in may God bless you all and I rates for seamen. the name of my son, but some­ British Seaman very sincerely thank you from For Flowers All tours are personally con­ how these words hardly seem the bottom of my heart. I want To the Editor: ducted by myself. This agency to be enough. Your E. B. Mc- Clarifies Point to thank you for the wonderful To each crewmember who is is the oldest and most reputable Auley was kindness itself; he •To the Editor: recreation programs for the pa­ or was aboard the SS Penn organization of its kind in did everything possible to help In your September issue of tients. To all the people in Vanguard on October 16, 1960: Argentina. We have an espe­ us in this tragic matter over the SEAFARERS LOG you charge of arranging the activ­ My father, Mr. Roth, and I, Mrs. cially popular "Fiesta Gaucha"/ the past two years. state that British seamen have ities, thank you so much. Clarence R. Brockett, both tour which covers a cattle Even now your letter- to me a five and a half day week and I would like to shoot it to the deeply thank and appreciate ranch in the Argentine pampas. offers more help if needed. This a non-contributory pension high heavens that the USPHS the very kind thought for send­ I thank you wholeheartedly I will surely keep in mind, for scheme. Hospital in New Orleans is the ing the beautiful flowers for for mailing me the LOG. It is it is a wonderful thing to know The NSU and the owners have best in the country. The whole •my mother, Mrs. George Roth, to me the most interesting sea­ you have someone to go to who recognized the five and a half staff of the hospital doesn't Vho passed away October 16, man's newspaper and impresses is,willing and able to give aid day week in principle. In prac­ have to take a back seat to any­ 1960. me for the outstanding work of if necessary. tice we are paid by the calen­ one. Keep up the good work. I think it just wonderful of your Union. In closing, I again thank you, dar month, with the days of a Fraternally, all the men to do this when Charles S. Roettger and once more, must express part month being paid on the James Thomas Moore • • T-HSir;--; •

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' NORTHWISTIRN VICTORY (Vie.. ting out • draw in Inchon. Korea on deck safety man. Replacement for tory Carrlan), Nov. IJ—Chalrman> ' October 10 Korean currency. Crew bosun and OS arrived in Recife. .Mo­ Coalinga Invasion R. V. Hayloek; Soerotary, Allan Man. refused draw under the impression tion made to write Union concerning ual. Everything it running imoothiy. that the captain would put out • ahore leave at Ascension Island; tech­ Each man to donate 50 cents for the held October 11 re: the captain put- nicians and officers going ashore. ship's fund. It is requested that the draw in US currency before arriving Letter to Union concerning ladder ship be auppUed with new and better in Okinawa. No medical treatmeqt leading to technician's quarters. In­ linen. was administered to those who needed sufficient slop chest. Out of certain it in Inchon. Korea. Delegates went brands of cigarettes. Crew opposed to Ends In A Truce ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), Oct. 30 to see the captain about the draw and one year articles—nine months Is —Chairman, C. Heuchint; Sacretary, he agreed to put out a draw on ar­ long enough. The following article was submitted to the LOG over the A. Farrara. No beefs. No disputed rival in Okinawa. He also agreed to OT. Ship's delegate to see about a see that men get proper medical LA SALLE (Waterman), Oct. 9— names of Ed Kresz, ship's reporter on the SS Coalinga Hills washing machine. treatment in Okinawa. Delegate Chairman, J. Redding; Secretary, M. stated he would see the Arst assistant O. Ohitrem. Ship's fund $42.35. Mo­ (Marine Carriers), and a fellow who signed himself as "Big MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), Oct. engineer about sanitary pumps which tion made that recreation room, Jack Roach, delegate." Kresz and his opposite number, Jack, 30—Chairman, James H. FIsherj Sec­ were broken for several days. laundry and passageways aft be retary, Johnny P. Ballday. Everything painted out. Deck department shower declare that the Coalinga Hills has "gone bugs." running smoothly. Will have SiU DEL.CAMPO (Mississippi), Oct. 3— painted. That steward steward de­ agent see the skipper for better lunch Chairman, C. Raymond; Secretary, L, partment foc'sles and showers be We of the Coalinga Hills are on (For the record. Big Jack is the schedule In Korea. OlO.OS in the ship's Munna. Ship's delegate reported no painted. Steward to order new mat­ fund. Expenditures $3. It Is suggest­ beefs. $20 in treasury. Motion made tresses. one of the buggiest trips ever tak­ boss of the roaches.) An agreement ed that the agent see the captain to elect treasurer. Steward elected by was made: The roaches were to about keeping Koreans ami Japanese acclamation. en by an SIU crew. Visitors and out of messhails and pantries. A vote NEW YORKER (Erie A St. Law- patrolmen are not to be alarmed stop sleeping in the sacks if the of thanks to the steward department SANTA VENETIA (Elam), Oct. 3— rence), Oct. 10—Chairman, Charles Be­ for Ane food and service. Chairman, Farrls M. Jones; Secretary, dell; Secretary, Lee, Mevall. First if, when boarding the ship, they crew put brighter lights In the M.. L. Loache. Ship's fund. $22.55. meeting held aboard this ship. Reu­ see spots before their eyes. passageway so as not to step on ALCOA ROAMER (AlCoa), Oct. 5— Farrls M. Jones elected ship's dele­ ben Slgwart elected ship's delegate. any of their boys. Chairman, Hemar Starling; Sacretary, gate. Crew told to bring cups and Vote of thanks gjven all hands for The white spots are the deck de- John R. Tllley. Ship's delegate failed glasses back to pantry and keep laun­ the perfect harmony of the entire apartment roaches, the red spots are Everything is now going fine, but to rejoin the vessel in Ponce. New dry clean. Vote of thanks to steward crew. This ship is sure a pleasure to it is a blessing that this trip is delegate was elected. There was department. •all on fiuin topside down to the black gang roaches, and the green S1S1.85 In the ship's fund before teht- engine room. All hands seem to go spots are the steward department nearly over. because it has been ing movies In Mobile. Vote of thanks a little out of their way to help each ZEPHYRHILLS (Peninsular Nav.), other. Conditions for the crew are rumored that the roaches, who now to the steward department for good Oct. 14—Chairman, B. B. Darley; Sec­ roaches. This color scheme was service. tops. decided upon so that the roaches outnumber the crew eight to one, retary, R. Dlpaolo. No agent for mall. Poor launch service. Ship Is SANTORB (Ore Nov.), Oct. 13 — of each department could be iden­ were planning an uprising. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Nov. undermanned. Dispute over fresh Chairman, O. Maddox; Secretary, W. 12—Chairman, P. Patrick; Secretary, fruit, vegetables and milk. Motion Strickland. Ship's delegate reported tified. If they had won, they intended C. Dammeyer. One man missed ship. made and seconded to begin a ship's Everything was going fine until to paint the sailors white, the black WiU elect a new ship's delegate. fund for communications, stamps, etc. everything okay.^ No beefs. Several Ship's fund stands at S361. There will, hours disputed OT in steward depart­ gang'red, and the steward depart­ ment. Ship's delegate resigned, and the roaches started to take too be more soda purchased because the SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), many liberties, such as sleeping ment green for identification pur­ ship Is going into lay-up. Vote of ' new ship's delegate elected. thanks to Clifford Dammcyc.- for a Oct, 18—Chairman, J. Glenn; Secre­ in our sacks and resting in the poses—so let's get off before we tary, E. Auer, $180.owed on the coke STJEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Oct. Job well done as the ship's delegate. machines. There has been one pay­ 15—Chairman, L. Larkin; Secretary, sugar bowls. all go bugs, s/ Ed Kresz, Ship's ment made on the machine and all F, R. Farmer. Ship's delegate Frank Reporter, and Big Jack, Roach KATHRYN (Bull), Oct. 16—Chair, who loaned money on It have been R. Farmen reported that they put in Meeting Called man, M. Simon; Secretary, E. Rosade. repaid. A. A. Sllvesrtl elected ship's A meeting was called among the Delegate. PS. Not responsible for Some disputed OT. Chief stewaid subsistence for no hot water. Clarify using supplies with care In order not delegate. Suggestion made that hooks draws. Turned In repair Ust. Will department delegates and Big Jack. any roaches in the envelope. be attached to bulkhead In laundry see patrolman about disputable logs. to run short during the voyage. room so that laiuidry bags can bo- Some disputed OT in engine depart­ hung there for soiled linen. Crew ment. Fresh water tanks to: be LUCILE BLOOMFIELD (Bleomfleld), messman suggests that men clean up cleaned. Getting enough cigarettes Nov. 6—Chairman, Danny Byrne; Sec. for the next voyage. Vote of thanks Alcoa Pointer Galley retary. Lea Da Parllar. Ship's dele, to steward dept. for a Job well done. gate paid off and a new delegate Is to Ship's fund, $10. S3.14 taken out for be elected. The ship's fund Is 840. cablegram to hall. No expenses. Company In New Or* leans did not forward crew's mail ,to WARRIOR (Waterman), Oct. 16 — Texas. Mall was delivered upon ship's Chairman, H. Ahern; Sacretary, M. B. arrival In New Orleans nine days Elliott. Ship's delegate Henry Love­ later. Ship's delegate to see about lace Jr. reported all getting off. Lit­ replacing present washing machine. tle disputed OT and patrolman will Sinks in laundry shnuM be replaced. take care of It. Repair list turned in. Discussed transportation- and travel ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), Oct. 33— subsistence. Suggestion to freeze milk Chairman, J. T. Robinson; Secretary, when supply Is abundant. W. R. Stone. Ship's fund stands at Oct. 30—Chairman, A. H. Aherni $4.04. Delegate to see the . captain Secretary, M. B. Elliott. Ami BJoras- about having the crew's quarters son elected ship's delegate replacing sougeed and the decks painted. Vote before coming into the messroom H. Lovelace, retiring ship's delegate, of thanks to the steward department from work. CiarlAcatlon from board­ who was given a vote of thanks for a for well prepared food and service. ing patrolman concerning time off as Job well done. there seems to be a difference of AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), Nov. 3— opinion on it. Suggestion that empty STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), July Chairman, William R. Klelmola; Sec. Ave gallon paint cans be placed on 33—Chairman, Roy Poole; Secretary, retary, C. B. Janten. One man missed poop deck for cigaret butts. James Brasfleld. No beefs. No dis­ ship at Port Newark. Matter satis- puted OT. Ship's fund. $13.12. To factorlly settled. Ship's delegate re. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land Service), Oct. elect ship's treasurer. elected. 16—Secretary, Ange'o Romero. No beefs In all departments. Messhall VIVIAN (Maritime Overseas), Oct. DEL MAR (MIssltslepI), Nov. «— deck has not been Axed after being 17—Chairman, A. Packsrt; Sacretary, Chairman, J. Poitar; Secretary, R. on repair list four months. E. Dora. E. Dore was elected ship's ,0U"^- Achae. Smooth payoff. S457 In the delegate. Vote of thanks given' to ship's fund. Motion made and sec- SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Oct, John Hunt, former ship's delegate. ended to give SSO of the shin's fund 16—Chairman, P. Patrick; Secretary, Motion made to write to headquarters to the Christmas fund at the New W. Barnes. New washing machine re­ and agent in Seattle regarding unsat­ Orleans hall. ceived. All repairs taken care of. isfactory food. Trying to have SIU Crewmembers asked to see the pa­ Food Plan put In effect aboard this DEL CAMPO (Mississippi), Oct. 33— trolman on any new equipment or re­ ship. Taking beef up with the agent Chairman, E. E. Cox; Sacretary, J. M. pairs, no satisfaction from chief engi­ in states regarding poor medical care I Syms. No beefs so far. .Ship's dele­ neer. Timer for wiuhlng machine by doctor hired by this company In gate resigns. There Is S20 |n the ordered. No monies to be loaned India. Will try to get new Ice box ship's fund. New ship's delegate was from ship's fund. Need new fan for for crew messhall. elected. crew messroom. Vote of thanks to steward department. CANTIGNY (Cities SeKvlce), Oct. 23 YORKMAR (Calmer), Nov. 1 — —Chairman, A. J. Giovanni; Secretary, Chairman, M. Klelber; Seeratary, L. O. SAN MARINO (Peninsular Nav.), . Edward J. Wright. Thomas O'Connor The galley crew of the SS Alcoa Pointer came into high Plerson. Elected a new shin's dele- Oct. 15—Chairman, Norwood E. Geno) elected ship's , delegate. Discussion gate. No beefs. No disputed OT. Secretary, C. L. Strlngfellow. Ship's regarding money on board for draws. I praise from the ship's steward, Jimmie Higham. The delegate Jerome 1. Hacker reported department includes (1 to r) L. Lovet, galleyman; PENN SHIPPER (Penn Shipping), that captain take off mall. The cap­ MONTEGO SUN (Standard Marlne),- Oct. 9—Chairman, D. J. Hewson; Sec. tain was asked about money for Sept. 1(L—Chairman, Dadslekrch; Sac­ McPherson, chief cook; and G. Marzette, third cook. Hig­ retary, J. F. DIckarson. Ship to take draws, but had ho reply. S3 in ship's retary, 'Souze. Men walked off ship, emergency stores In Singapore.- Dls- treasury. To have arrival pool for black gang without being relieved. ham lauded his department's sober and serious attitude puted OT to be taken up at the pay­ more ship's fund. To see captain Members voted for Amerlcati money toward its duties. off. Steward department beefs to bo about ice maclUne being repaired In for draws in foreign ports. Steward taken un at payoff also. Freeport. Vote of thanks to steward eiected ship's treasurer. Oct. 35—Chairman, John DIckarson; departmen.t Secretary, J. W. Butler.' Motion made TIMBER HITCH (Suwannee), Sept. to have ship's delegate see about get- COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Vic­ 21 — Chairman, Adllsen; Secretary, tine toilets renaired. Discussed the tory Carriers), Oct. 17—Chairman,. Magre. No beefs. Suggestion taken matter of foc'sles being sougeed and Robert M. Douglas. Crewmembers up with captain to make inspection stores to be received in Yokohama. request tiles on Aoor foc'sle. of water tanks when in port of Recife. WILD RANGER (Waterman). Oct. 30 FELTORE (Marven), Oct. 13—Chair­ STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), 1 —Chairman, C. Borti; Secretary, O. man, O. B. Albright; Secretary, E. A. Oct. 31—Chairman, Orlando; Secre­ Lawson. Matters pertaining to the Boyd. Letters covering delayed sail­ tary, Scregglns. Five day subsistence welfare of the crew Will be taken up ing and Information regarding an­ coming to. crew. Few hours of dis­ promptly. There is now SM In the chorage at Porto Ordaz to be brought puted OT in deck and engine dept. ship's fund. Cook missed' shin. All to the attention of the patrolman at All hands were reminded to be sober delegates to turn In a repaij^llst. Sug­ Philadelphia. $10 In ship's fund. Sug­ at payoff. Have representative from gest that elop chest be replenished. gestion that toilets amidships to be hall check stores before leaving on given pressure so that they will Aush voyage. KATHRYN (Bull), Nov. 13—Chair­ properly. Also thpt the third mate's man, Evarlsto Jimenez; Secretary, lavatory be repaired for leak. Ques­ YAKA (Waterman), Nov. 27—Chair­ sama. Some disputed OT. Three de­ tion also asked as to who is supposed man, Gteree J. Baka; Secretary, Nell partments to cooperate In cleaning to care for engineer's room. .D. Abernathy. Repair list taken care laundry and shower and toilet. of. New beneRclary cards made up I MONARCH OF THE SEAS (Water­ by the crew. Some disputed OT. Mo­ DEL NORTE (Mississippi), Oct. 3— man), Oct. 16—Chairman, P. Blalock; tion made to change Article 11, Sec­ Chairman, George 'E. Annis; Secre­ Secretary, L. Moore. Complaint about tion 22 to allow men 30 minutes in­ tary, W. P. Kaiser. Ship's delegate washing machine ruining laundry. stead of 15 minutes before turning to reports that he has posted letter of Mes.sroom cuns to be brought back to on OT. It Is requested at meal times thank.s to crew from Brother Thorn­ messroom. Book member to bring that everyone be presentable and stop ton who is in a hospital after having bosun up before patrolman about kid­ vulgar talk. broken his hip In engine room acci­ ding black gang delegate. dent. He also sent a letter to head- ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Moore McCor- nuarters about standing watch on FORT HOSKINS (CItles service), mack), Nov. 20—Chslrmsn, C. Swain; hotw, when taking heavy «pr»vs; Shin'? Oct. 1—Chairman, J. C. Keel; Secre­ Secretary. V. Rstcllff. No major t-easnrer. Sister Ponnett. has gotten tary, H. H. Fielder. 'Will have meet­ beefs. Ship's delegate resigned. off: therefore enother tr»asi'i'er will ing with patrolman regarding Arlng Elected a new delegate. $10 In shlD*s have to be electort. Shin's fund, of men. fund. It Is reouested that cups and ••>04.53. Is now In chief niir««r's safe, gla.sses be returned to nantry.' Laun­ "fovle di-ector renorts •'41 ev in fund MASSMAR (Calmar), Oct. 1—Chair­ dry Is not to be used after 10:00 PM. from last trln. He got ten new movies man, Red Braunstein; Secretary, M. E. —some repairs, has balance of $30.87. Greenwald. Everything okav aboard RAVVAH (Shins A Frelnhts), Nnv. ship. No beefs. Vote of thanks to —6 Chairman. R. S. Cowaerthwalte; orEatJ FVF" YN ;Mar'*lme Ower- the stew.ird department. Renair list Secretary, J. W. T»«nma$. E"ery;b|ng •ea«). Oct. a—«"hp»rm»n, P WendeM; to be made uo and turned in before t'ken care of. Heads to' he kept e*cret*rv, /»i«* J«nes. "ent-lr list arrival' itr port. _ cleaner. Pantry sink and live steam turned In.' *!hln'e fund, go stote of In galley needs renalrlng. tvonhs to steward denartmeiit. COASTAl. CRUSADER (Suwannee), Sent. 1—Ch»*rman. Tliomas Kl'ne; CITY OP Ai (W«»e'man1, Nov. • pcerneetM riTY s/ictsnv (Vl«- Secretary. W. D. Parrlsh. Some dis­ 17—Chairman. 'Oeher* Mall: Cecretarv, *-pv g-rriersi. rsef. 4—ghelrmen. J. puted OT oollected for engine and Jns*nh Mevarcn-k. ^rnp mirqert 'shin -• •(c* n..rht; e-eretarw, G, r I n*hrop. steward depts. .Shin's delegate re­ in Mew York. i"''npr hocnUeTired and ; ohin's d-'eg-te reneot«d tiiot tie Is . ported that safety meetln" WP« field of•...... ivniv— toti es de'evqto he. for all department heads. St'mns --,,ee he's eirpedv hed (he steiyerdS are avpilahle for shin's erew. •'log rfttnjB to ,. .'etehete "toh P P,,eh eteeted peW in .shin's fund. Some dl.snuted OT |n Orleans. Pantry 'to be'Snroyed fer "; (Cartoon by Seafarer Zhemeck.)( -•.3e,S d-teeete." Ceeeie^ feenttfig WOS deck denartment. Cane was (dected ants. "i; -This should the crew awake! Pcccubcr, 19M SEAFARERS LOG Tagt Twenty-Nine Ringer On The Arizpa Ex-Seafarer No Red Tape: Seeks Old Pals Welfare Pays To the Editor: To the Editor; I am a former seaman and It might be interesting and SIU member (Book No. 48872), but I haven't shipped since no doubt' reassuring for some 1951. I would like to hear from Seafarers to know how our Wel­ some of my old shipmates All letters to the editor for fare Hospital Plan came through around Norfolk and Savannah. publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the for me. Please print .this in the LOG One of my sons (a welfare to let my former shipmates writer.- Names will be withheld upon reque.st. maternity benefit child) frac­ know of me. Anyone who tured his leg and was hospital­ shipped with "Old Slim Lester" ized. I picked up one of those on South Atlantic's SS South- the selfish suggestions it makes ridiculously - simple looking port from 1949 to 1951, please as to a compulsory vacation forms at headquarters, filled drop me a line at my home. plan. in a few blank spaces on one North Spring, West Virginia. I side and handed it In at the would especially like a line We do like your reply with its reasonable and pointed ex­ hospital (St. Michaels, Newark, from Jimmie Baker from Eliza­ NJ), then ran like a thief. I beth City, NC. planations as to the faults of such a system; faults which was certain there would be If possible, I would sure like some red tape, confusion and to have the LOG sent to me at have been aired by the mem­ bership of this union at various difficulty in the payment of my home. It would be a great those bills. pleasure to sit down at home times in the past year whenever and read the Union paper again. a compulsory vacation plan has A month later I received an Thank you very kindly. Sin­ come up. equally ridiculously simple cerely, As your letter points out, the form from Welfare notifying me Clinton Slim Lester membership in the past has ex­ that the hospital 'and the' doc­ (Ed. note: You are being pressed the opinion that such a tor were paid in full. placed on the LOG mailing plan would set up a class Considering my previous lack list). system in our Union, and it of faith in the action that Wel­ 4* 4" would. fare would take, this two-fold Should such a"" vacation plan letter of apology and apprecia­ Lauds Speedy become a reality in the SIU, tion, I feel certain, is well in these so-called Union brothers order. Welfare Help who advocate the system would In closing I might add that To the Editor: Aboard the SS Arizpa (Waterman), Seafarer Joseph be sitting pretty for life with it would do well for some of When a guy is out bouncing all the key jobs on all the those scuttle-butt attorneys to McCabe, Jr., poses with one of the ship's life rings during around in one of these pig iron cushy runs sewed up. bone-up on SIU clarifications, boats for a while, kind of for­ his off hours. McCabe, an AB, lives in Irvington, Ala. He They would be our Union stipulations amendments, revi­ generally ships out of the Mobile SIU hall. getting about the ol' homestead sions, etc., prior to drawing and the kinfolk back there, it monarchy. The rest of us waiting on the conclusions or making inaccu­ sure is good to know that while rate statements. he's away there's someone beach for these hot shots to LOG-A-RHYTHM: standing behind him. take a vacation, and loan us Alexander J. Letter This was proven to me the their jobs for a few weeks so hard way a short time ago when that we could earn a few dol­ 4 4 4 Sailing The African Coast my wife was stricken with a lars, well, we would be the very serious illness While I was peasants. Seaman Praises .By E. W. "Bouncy" Carter. out to sea. We like our vacation plan as The Welfare Department of it is, with the slow, steady Terrific Job We leave New York and head Southeast our Seafarers Union, through financial improvement it seems To the Editor: For eighteen days at sea, Joe Campo of the Philadelphia to make from year to year. I have many words to say Anchoring^ at Ascension Isle, branch, stepped right in and about our organization and its Handling cargo for good OT. We like our hiring halls and took over. He sure did a swell our present rotary shipping We then sail on to Cavetown job! No red tape or messing Welfare Plan, though words are system where every member not enough. I want to mention And its scenic Table Top, around at all—just fast action gets a fair shake. And most Greeting old friends and making new. right to the heart of the matter. certainly we want the SIU to the integrity of the Boston rep­ This being our first real stop. When I received news of how remain as it is at this time, a resentative, Brother Gene Da- It's Port Elizabeth and East London, nicely everything was taken care union with equality for all. kin, who cleared up all my And it's in and out we go, of, I sure felt good, and was Crew of the SS Kyska aches by spending one hour Sometimes you stay a couple days. proud to be a brother of guys with me in the hospital. But then you never know. like Joe Campo of our own SIU. Bernard Donnelly Ship's delegate I, as a "B" man, know now that The weather's changing all the time Dick Commings SS Marymar (signed by all department the SIU is forever to be blessed So one hardly needs a turban. delegates) for its wise ways in picking the And though you've worked and worked, 4 4 4« right man for the job at hand. It's all for the girls in Durban. 4 4 4 I will not discuss the sordid The scenery is a bit like home. Kyska Crew Likes Thanks Crew mess of how I came to the hos­ More so in the urban heights. Present Vacations pital, as Brother Dakin has a Ask anyone who's made this run. Of Fairiand full report of my misfortune. They dig those cheeky Durbanites. (Ed. note: The following let­ ter was addressed to SIU Pres­ To the Editor: His clear-sightedness in taking Three or four days and often more I want to extend special care of my troubles was as­ We have ourselves a ball, ident Paul Hall.) r - Dear Sir and Brother: thanks to the crew and officers tounding. I, who was for over It's out again and Northeast bound, of the Fairiand (Sea-Land) for 20 years a member of the MaUing Lourerico Marques next call. We, the crew of the Kyska, are writing this letter to you their great kindness to me when Butchers Union of North Amer­ It's gettin' hotter and hotter as we go my father died November 18. But the crew seems not to mind. .to indicate~our reactions to the ica, AFL. Leaving L.M.^for Beira now. one which was written to you I received a radiogram of my Let no brother complain, for / father's death when we were With a few days "at sea" kind. and published in the SEA­ the service I received you can­ two days from San Juan, Puerto To Dar es Salaam and Mobasa land FARERS LOG. The letter in not buy for all the money in question was written by Brother Rico. The crew, without my this world. I am not trying to Our last East African port. knowledge, took up a collection We've run our cameras and been around. Victor D. Brunell of the Mon­ build up Brother Dakin or the arch of the Sea. and sent flowers to my home. And of course had lots of sport. SIU for they are already on the Its subject had to do with a The generosity of the crew and very best of foundations. We turn around and head back south suggestion by the crew for in­ officers also enabled me to take The Welfare Plan is the Making the same ports down the line. stituting in our Union a com­ a plane from Puerto Rico to Believe me when I tell you, friend. soundest in the world, and pulsory Vacation Plan. New York to attend my father's every man in the SIU is treat­ It sure is mighty fine. His letter, and your reply to funeral. Again I want to thank Reaching Capetown for the homeward trek ed with the respect that they it, was read by us of the Kyska my shipmates on the Fairiand. all fought for qver the years. We're ready for a,well earned rest. with studied interest. Sincerely, You're back Stateside in a couple of weeks. We do not like his letter, or Edward Blaha Alfred Hirsch It's then that you know what's best.

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SO,lNSrWAJ> lA/e RAhJ TN€ CHRlST/WAS •3T(2lp-THlSC?A;g^. \^^€GoOFeX>. lAJE •MC*^ YOU f^AD A RAPPy THAMkSGiV/MG, AA/D WAAJT -It) SUR^ TD LVISN Vou A M^RRY C/JRlST/VIAS: .1,. >_r I' t Thirty . - V . SEAFARERS LOG Deeember, ISM.. Crew Of Kyska Sights Derelict A recent Far East run on the SS Kyska (Waterman) was marked by the sighting of a derelict and the presence of an unusual passenger, according to reports received by the LOG. The Kyska paid off in New special aptitude for reading lips, taken during her tour of duty at York late last month after a was well liked by the crew and the colony. The passenger was on four-month trip from the several members report that she her way to join the staff of a hospi­ West Coast to Japan and back. showed interesting color slides tal somewhere in Japan. cau§e and the American crew do­ Crewmembers sighted a derelict Transportation nated $30 to the British seameu's cargo vessel several hundred miles A discussion on transportation group. . - Ride 'Em, Sailor! rights was held aboard the SS City off the .Japanese coast. 4 <4 4 The derelict was estimated to of Alnfa (Waterman) in October. be from 50 to 60 feet long, and It was pointed out that some men Sportsman was, as one SIU man put it, "a sign on at East Coast, ports to go to the West Coast, but while in the Seafarer Tomas Ramirez aboard bell of a nice-looking vessel." Un­ the SS Kenmar (Calmar) sent us fortunately, no one had their Gulf, the ship is diverted to Euro­ pean ports. Some of the men don't an illustrated note about an un­ cameras loaded at the time of the named "super sportsman" aboard .0 want to make the Europe trip and sighting. the Kenmar. Seems this shipmate If it were not for a storm which they don't want to lose transporta­ likes fishing so much that he sets was coming up, the Kyska skipper tion. The matter wili be discussed out about 10 line.s off the stern of might have been willing to pull with patrolmen. the vessel. Trouble is, he monopo­ alongside the derelict long enough ^•0' t - - lizes fishing space and doesn't give to examine her more closely, but some o£«the rest of the crew a approaching heavy weather made Need Training chance to try their luck . an attempt too risky. Adequate training and qualifica­ Reached Yokohama tion for key ratings was brought 4 4 4 When the Kyska reached Yoko­ up at a meeting on the Steel Chem­ PX Privileges? hama a few days later, several ist (Isthmian) recently. It gets rough when key rated men, far The SS National Defender (Na­ Japanese who were told of the tional Shipping & Trading) crew sighting asked for more informa­ away from home port, don't know their jobs well enough. is trying to get passes to US tion in order to attempt to salvage Armed Forces PX's in ports where the prize. They were given the 4" 4 the ship stops. The crew figures information and were wished suc­ that they may be able to make cess by all hands. Aids British purchases at PX's because they Another report from the Kyska The crew of the SS Alice Brown are carrying MSTS cargo. crew indicated the vessel carried (Bloomheld) in Southampton, Eng­ one' "VIP" (very interesting "per­ land a couple of months ago, re­ son) during the jaunt from the sponded to an appeal from the West Coast to Japan. This was an British National Seamen's reform elderly woman who had spent Mark Thomas Hopkins, just about a year old, is the son Jnovement.' Three rank and file I'LL W ' some 30 years working in a leper of Seafarer Thomas C. Hopkins, H-688, of Duffield, Va. members of the British reform colony in Louisiana. The youngster is shown getting a ride on the neck of movement came aboard the Alice The lady, a deaf mute with a another of the Hopkins clan. Brown seeking support for their

ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), Sept. 19— benches around side of house for sit­ suggested another repair list be sub­ hail requests that the crew donate to milk straightened out. No man to Chairman, Fordinand Graaff; Sacra- ting" purposes. mitted for new fans. Ship's delegate the doll and toy fund that is being pay off till ship has patroiman on tary, T. Ostaiaskl. Ship's delegate to write to Union concerning refuel­ started in New Orleans. Ship's fund board. See patroiman about linen reports discussion on no saiiing board JOHN B. WATERMAN (Walarman), ing at sea. Chief mate said lock on 810. Deck delegate reported that Paul shortage and proper posting of sail­ in St. Croix. Discussion on topside Sapt. 25—Chairman, Hartohom; Sacra- tankers should be flxed by Engine Warren is to be commended in the ing board. S30.62 in ship's fund. BR to be iaid off in Norfolk to ba tary, Espanada. Elected ship's dele­ dep't. Suggestion to write haU re­ way he handled the beef concerning Deck and engine department disputed referred to patroiman. $18.90 in gate. Washing machine, fans, napkin garding compensation of pay for re­ the deck department re; call out and overtime to be settled at payoff.. ship's treasury. Keep washing ma­ holders, windscoops. screens, bad fueling at sea. readiness period. He was assured chine fuii of water when washing springs, spring mattresses, needed. that the company would live up to the Oct. IS—Chairman, Carver; Sacra- CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities APOUNDRIA (Waterman), Sept. 2f ciothes. Don't wash out mop in laun­ agreement. Request that washing ma­ —Chairman, Charles P. Johnson; Sec­ dry sink. tary, Espanada. Everything is OK. Service), Sapt. 2—Chairman. Walgy chine be repaired if possible.. Request Thomas; Sacratary, Dan Beard. Ship's that more care be given in preparing retary, Clarence J. Nail. Ship's deie- OCEAN JOYCE (Maritime Overseas); . gate reported that everything is run­ SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Saatrain), delegate reported that repairs ail rare, medium and well done steaks. ning smoothly. Sept. 25—Chairman, C. E. Laa, Jr.; Oct. 5—Chairman, Nawbarg; Secre­ taken care of. AU beefs and disputed Sacratary, D. Cann. No beefs re­ tary, Wlla. Ship's delegate received OT to be given to delegate before MAXTON (Marine Carriers), Oct. 1 no cooperation from chief on repairs the payoff. Have requested vacation —Chairman, E. J. Riviere; Secretary, DANNY BOY (Kulukundls), Oc*. IS ported. Deck delegate reports one which were to be done when the ship blanks and welfare cards. Vote of M. F. Kramer. Ship's fund $4.20. Ail —Chairman, Daniel J, Shaehan; Sccrg- v man missed ship and hospitalized in was at sea. This is to be brought to thanks for the three cooks for big departments report no beefs. Steward tary, Fred R. Hicks. Daniel Sheehan New Orleans. One member in engine the attention of the Union when pay­ improvement In the meats and vege­ said he would attempt to get milR elected ship's delegate. $5.38 in ship's : department missed ship in NY. Water ing off. tables. ^ and v^atever stores are needed. fund. Submitting repair Ust. Vote of taps in deck department head need thanks to steward department for repairing. Ciothes in engine room to SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Seatrain), ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), Sept. U ARIZPA (Waterman), Oct. •—Chair­ good job all around. be taken out. Work with steward in Oct. 23—Chairman, Blizzard; Secre­ —Chairman, John Trust; Secretary, man, C. Parker; Secretary, A. R. Rud- getting all linen back on linen day. tary, Conn. No beefs. Have steward Arturo Mariani, Jr. Motion made to nlckl. Brother A. Rudnicki elected CITIES SERVICE MIAMI (Cities ! Motion made to let shore gang come dep't. toilet clean. Clean up washing have new brands of soaps available ship's delegate. This job to be ro­ Service), Sept. 17—Chairman, none; in messroom for coffee only. machine room and have roller fixed instead of having Ivory. One wiper tated every trip. Repairs that have Secretary, William Davies. Milk situ­ on washing machine. logged. not been completed wili be taken care ation discussed. $2.96 on hand. One SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), of at sea. man missed ship in Lake Charles. No Sept. 25—Chairman, J. Barton; Secre­ STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), Oct. HASTINGS (Waterman), Sept. 4— pressure ,on sanitary pump for toilets. : tary, Tim Holt. No beefs. Ail de­ 20—Chairman, Rosecrans; Secretary, Chairman, James Bales; Secretary, Delapenha. Letter sent to headquar­ WACOSTA (Waterman), Oct. 9 — partments running smoothly. $62.40 Wells. Ship running smooth. Discus­ Chairman, John Wunderlich; Secre­ LOSMAR (Calmar), Oct. 9—Chair­ in ship's fund. Letter from Joe Voi- ters in regards to firemen and oiler sion on docking and time allowed for tary, John S. Burke. Ship's delegate pian re New Jersey insurance for sea­ foe'sle. Some disputed overtime. Fine men to eat. Men asked to help to man, Bergar Welhelmsen; Secretary, trip. asked to be replaced. Repocted ail is Raymond R. Obidos. Few men got off men posted. Motion seconded and car­ keep messroom & pantry clean. Men going along fine. S13.65*left in ship's on West Coast—two of which were ried to raffle off old TV set and pur­ asked to take care of their cbts, and PORTMAR (Calmar), Oct. 22—Chair­ treasury. Ail hands asked to cooper­ hospitalized. The washing machine chase new and smaller one out of not let them lay around the deck. ate in keeping recreation room aft > which broke down will be repaired or ship's fund. Motion seconded and man, Simmons; Secretary, Stack. No clean. Also asked to move dry clothes beefs. Repair list taken up. Filled INES (Bull), Sept. 4—Chairman, renewed on the East Coast. Repair carried by steward department to out crew list for Union records. from fidley so all hands can use. list turned in. Some disputed OT to sougee and paint crew messroom. Juan Patino; Secretary, Roger L. Hall. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ be referred to patrolman. Captain M. S C by electrician to dump garbage ROBIN KIRK (Robin), Oct. 19 — ment for a nice job. All hands asked left -port several times without ship , and wash down stern morning after Chairman, Owens; Secretary, White. to bring coffee cups back to pantry being properly secured. This will be departure. Each delegate to use Ship's delegate to be elected. Coffee and not leave them on deck. referred, to patrolman also. ship's fund for small emergency do­ to be made in small pots at supper nations. Also some talk about dam­ and coffee time. Old. linen • to bo ROBIN HOOD fRobin), Oct. 1 — EAGL» VOYAGER (Sea Transport), aged padlocks on stewards store turned in at time of issue. Chairman, A. Page; Secretary, R. Oct. 2—Chairman, S. U.-Johnson; Sec­ room. Sedowskl. Ship's delegate reported retary, J. J. Doyle. Ship's delegate JEAN LAFITTE (Waterman), Oct. 7 repair list almost completed. One reported on seeing captain in re­ BEAUREGARD (Sea-Land) Sept. 26 —Chairman, Ed Cole; Secretary, H. man hospitalized in Laurenco Mar­ gards to time off. Letter to Head­ —Chairman, H. J. Piszetowski; Secre­ Peeler. Ship's delegate reported wash­ •nil ques. Deck and engine departments quarters on time-off situation. O'iier tary, George Fargo. Repairs taken ing machine parts ordered. Some running smoothly with no beefs. OT reported $500 lost from locker. $26.61 care of. Captain requires all health mattresses to be replaced in New Or­ beef disputed in Steward dep't. Mo­ in ship's fund, also 2800 Japanese cards before sign-on. Vote of thanks leans. No beefs. ] tion made to have Sea Che.st repre­ yen. Everything running smoothly. to steward department. Crew asked sentative to check prices and quality Roberto Hanibai. elected ship's dele­ to return dirty linen. STEEL VENDER (Isthmian), Sept. Ship's delegate reported everything in of slop chest. Vote of thanks to stew­ gate. 14—Chairman, M. Savoy; Secretary, order. Motion made to have awning ard department for good job—also to MICHAEL (J. M. Carras) Sept. 24— Bill Stark. Ship's delegate reported covered. Also that company should deck and engine sanitary men. Men ALCOA PLANTER (Alcos), Sept. IS- Chairman, P. Hammei; Secretary, T. most of repairs have been done. New notify Union and family at their ex­ asked to be propertiy dressed when —Chairman, D. L. McCorvcy; Secre­ Haromon. No beefs reported. Get washing machine was secured this pense when a man is hospitalized coming to messroom. tary, Z. Y. Ching. No repairs were draw list. Make out repair list. En­ trip. Still a few repairs to be taken overseas. Motion that patrolman check made in New Orleans. There is $13.60 gine delegate reports one man logged. care of during trip. $37.46 in ship's medicine chest. Motion made that FAIRPORT (Waterman), Sept. 22— in the ship's fund. fund. Mailing service ver.v bad. negotiating committee negotiate with Chairman, Bernard Shuitz; Secretary, Oct. 16—Chairman, D. L. McCorvey; One man injured day of departure, Should request company to forward company to pay by 31-day month. Gus Skendelas. Ship's delegate re­ Secretary, Z. Y. Ching. Quarters hospitalized. Sailed one man short. crew's, mail. Ail crew to abide by Also, that patrolman settle beef in ported no beefs. Repair list to be fumigated last trip. One mah missed safety rules. Request that brothers writing as to who is responsible for made up. Vote of thanks given to ship in Seattle. $18.60 on hand in WESTPORT (Rover), Oct. 17—Chair­ return magazines and books when cleaning port passage and areas. Be­ steward department. Subsequent to ship's fund. Company should be asked man, Collier; Secretary, Solpedo. To thej* are finished with them so rest quest improvement on menus. this meeting the ship's delegate re­ to discontinue draws on travelers* have engine dep't. showers painted, of crew may read them. AH mem­ ported man missed ship taking suit checks because members losing money also dep't. forcasties painted. Have bers asked to help keep laundry room PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Sept. cases and owing large amount of in foreign ports by exchange. It is captain write to company in regards clean. 26—Chairman, Andrew McCloskey; money. requested that food be prepared .« to allotments. Secretary, Albert DeForast. No funds little better. BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty in ship's treasury. It was asked that HURRICANE (Waterman), Oct. 2— FLORIDA STATE (Ponce Products), Nav.), Oct. 9—Chairman, E. Lessor; a letter be sent to headquarters to Chairman, Anthony J. Gregoire; Sec­ OREMAR (Ore), Nov. 11—Chairman, Oct. 22—Chairman, Kilgore; Secretary, Secretary, F. Mcintosh. Messhaii and clarify some points about OT- and retary, Eugene R- Ray. Ship's dele­ Henry Buckner; Secretary, Charles E. Dunham. Special meeting held to de­ aft to be checked as water coming in conditions on a ship that carries both gate reported repair list turned in. Rawiings. Ship's delegate to see the termine and get. to the bottom of during rough seas. Membership asked liquid and dry cargo. Repair list Two men logged and will be turned , patrolman on some disputed OT in the friction in crew's messroom at the to try and keep recreation hail clean, from last voyage cannot be found. in to patrolman. Performers to be deck department. Food situation is- supper meal hour between members and not to u.se towels for shoe shine Delegate to inquire about painting out turned in. Letter sent to headquar­ poor. Steward complains that he is of engine dep't. and two crew mess- rags. Washing machine to be drained foc'sles. It was suggested that anyone ters re: previous wiper performing not given sufficient stores for (he men. in scupper instead of on the deck. ' wishing to enter the safety slogan between Norfolk and New York. Any­ voyage. Will see palroiman on this contest < may read about same on one who has torn or mutilated sea­ matter. Ship in need of fumigation. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), Oct. 23 bulletin board. man's papers should have them re­ MARORE (Ore), Nov. S—Chairman, —Chairman, J. Rolnon; Secretary, EDITH (Bull), Sept. 14—Chairman, newed January 1961. Steward de­ Ralph Gowan; Secretary, George Bur­ Harrison. . Smooth saiiing voyage. Wmr. C. Murphy; Secretary, D. Em- COE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), partment given a vote of thanks. ns. Second cook's baking has im­ Suggestion that a different brand of erlck. Ship's delegate reported every­ Oct. 9—Chairman, J. Nelson; Secre­ Washing machine should be replaced. proved. No beefs. Repair list turned soap be used aboard ship. thing running smoothly. Crewmem­ tary, R. Eden. $9.45 in ship's fund. LOGs should be. mailed to the ship in. Elected a ship's delegate. Oct. 23—Chairman, Relnon. Dis­ bers asked to keep laundry room Each man asked to give $.50 to ship's regularly and also be sent to the putes settled. Repair list In good clean and orderly. fund.. Linen to be checked by patrol­ Seaman's Club in Bremerhaven, Ger­ STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Oct. order. Smooth saiiing. ORION PLANET (Orion), Sapt. 21— man. many. 20—Chairman, S. Furtedo; Secretary, Chairman, J. Robinson; Secretary, O. Walter Nash. Ship's fund is $27.41.. . STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), Oct. L. Guerrero. Ship's delegate reported ALICE BROWN (Bloomflold), Sapt. THE CABINS (Texas City Refining), $12 was given to the electrician to II—Chairman, Fanehen; Sacratary, mattresses and fans were received in 25—Chairman, S. E. Millar. Ship's Oct. 12—Chairman, G. Erhllngar; Sec­ purchase an automatic timer for the Goa. No beefs. Motion to have Bgnit. Fans were' reconditioned and delegate reported ttiat New Orleans retary, W. Cattldy. Discussion on washing machine. Some disputed OT. Dccemberr I960 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Thirty-One

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Bill Parks ney, 32 Court Street, concerning Please get in touch with Mom your late brother, Frank. FIWAKCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ and Peggy. Important. 4 4 4 land 'Vaters District makes specific provision for safeguardlnK the membership's Alfred R. Fry money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit, Harry F. McDonald Please get in touch with your every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the mem­ You are asked to contact Philip sister, Mrs. Virginia Fry Jones, < bership. 'All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. Should any member, for any reasctn, be refused his constitutional right to in­ Gucker, secretary. Trinity Church, 2004 Glenview Ave., NE, Louisville spect these records, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return NYC. 7, Kentucky. Anybody knowing of receipt requested. ' t 4- t his whereabouts, please notify. rr Leslie J. Brilhart 4 4 4 Our new address is 342 Mont- Antonio De Jesus TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland clair Avenue, Alamo Heights, San Please contact your wife imme­ Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various Antonio 9, Texas. Write or come diately. It is of the utmost ur­ trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management represent­ home soon. Mother, gency. atives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds 4- 4" t 4 4 4 are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund Dominick M. Ravosa C. W. Hal! financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. Call IV 8-0017, Baltimore, Md. Please get in touch with your If, at any time, you are denied information about any SIU trust fund, notify Very important. sister Grace Jackson at 1514-5lh SIU president Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified mail, return receipt 4 4 4 Street, Detroit 26, Michigan. requested. Zollie Evans Jr. 4 4 4 • £x-Feltore E. N. Mclnis .SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected by the con­ O Your gear has been left at the Please contact M. A. Moser, 7623 tracts of the SIU Atlantic, Gu^f, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and by Sparrows Point office of Marven Bonham Avenue, Houston, Texas. Union shipping,rules, which arm incorporated in the contract. Get to know Steamship Company. 4 4 4 •your shipping rights. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ 4 4 • 4 Sylvester Zygarowski ping or seniority rights, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board. Also Bruce Hubbard Please contact your son, Francis, notify SlU President Paul Hall at headquarters, by certified mail, return re­ Please contact N. O. Mason or ceipt requested. at either Cutler Road, W., Brook- W. A. Wood at 5217 E. 75th, field, Mass., UO 7-6020 or before Seattle, or phone LA 2-0913. January 30 at Boston Navy band CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These '• ' 4 4 4 No. 94, Charlestown Navy Yard, contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard Following members have tax re­ Boston 29, Mass. CH 2-1400, ext. ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as fllijig fund checks being held for them by 462. •for or on the proper sheets and in the proper manners If, at any time, any Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP build­ SIU patrolman or other Union official, in-your opinion, fails to protect your ~ ing, 450 Harrison Street, San Fran­ contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. In addition, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. cisco: Ernest C. Anderson, Marga- rito Borga, Theodoros G. Calopo- thakos, Maurice J. Cutler, Olav Sill HALL EDITCmiAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOO. The LOG has traditionally refrained from Gustavsen, James F. Lee, Jr., Ray­ publishing any article serving the political purposes of any Individual in the mond H. Miller, Potenciano D. Union, officer or member. It }ias also, refrained from publishing articles deem­ Paculba, Sammy Rogamos, Fred­ ed harmful to the Union or its collective membersljip. This established policy DIRECTORY erick J. Smith, Francis J. Sylvia, has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September meetings in all Ah Sai Wong, Ding Hal Woo. coiistitutional'ports. The responsibility for LOG'-policy. is vested in an edi­ ii torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ 4 4 4 SIU Atlantic, Gulf utive Roard may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out George Elliot King Lakes & Inland Waters this responsibility. Important you contact your wife at 717 Franlin Ave., New Orleans, District r La. 17, WH 7-6149." PRESIDENT w , PAYITENT, OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity 4 4 4 Paul HaU in the:SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no cir­ Lois Harmon Blizzard EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given Get in touch with your mother Cal Tanner such receipt. If in the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be VICE PRESIDENTS made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment at Rf3, Box 146, Kinston, North Claude Simmons Lindsey Williama and U given an official receipt, but iteels. that he should not have been re­ Carolina. Earl isheppard A1 Tanner quired to make such payment, this should immediately be called to the attention > 4-44 SECRETARY-TREASURER of StU Pre^'dent Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested, Darius Clay Jones AI Kerr i.i n'. Urgent that you contact Mrs. HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Emiko Jones, at No. 8-4 Chome. Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart COHSTlTUriONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in BALTIMORE , . .1216 E. Baltimore St. Yakusi Dorl, Na Da-Ku Kobe, Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 the .SE/IFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies Japan. are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this BOSTON .. 276 State-St. constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you 4 4 4. John Arabascz, Agent Richmond 2-0140 feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional Eric William Johnson DETROIT 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. • right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., Please write or phone L. Richie, Paul Drozak, Agent VInewood 3-4741 as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately 320 7th Street, Lakes Charles, La. HEADQUARTERS ...075 4th Ave., Bklyn notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. HYacinth 9-6600 4 t HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. The SIU Baltimore hall is hold­ R. Matthews, Agent CApital 3-4089: 3-408C ing checks in its files for the fol­ JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax RETIRED SEAFARERS. ' Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ WUliam Morris, Agent ELgin 3-0987 ,1 lowing members, who should con­ <• fits havq always been encouraged to continue their union activities, in­ MIA.MI 744 W. Flagler St. cluding attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members tact port agent Rex Dickey: Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 at these Union meetings, they aire encouraged to take an active role in all Charles Bartlett, Steve Bernal- MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. rank-and-l'jLle functions. Including service on rank-and-file committees,. des, Maurice Culp, C. Foster, Edgar Louis Neira, Agent " HEmiock 2-1754 Because thgse oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership Kurz, Raul Estrada, Howard W. NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain Hall, Robert Duff, Billie Hughes, Buck Stephens, Agent Tele.: 524—8626 their good standing through the waiving of their dues. NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn Richard Everhart, Hubert Jackson, HYacinth 9-6660 I. m NORFOLK 416 CoUey Ave. Joe Kordich, Leon Lowe, Frank G. Paul Gonsorchik, Agent Ortiz, Vincento Russo, Miguel MAdison 7-1083 Viera. PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. 4 4 4 S. Cardullo, Agent . DEwey 6-3818 Raul I. Lopez SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Contact B. C. Wherman, Assist­ Walter Sibley. Agent Douglas 2-4401 SANTURCE, PR. 1313 Fernandez Juncos, ant cashier. First National City Stop 20 170 us Cities See Rim On SIU Bank of New York, 55 Wall Street, Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep, Phone 2-5990 t- WASHINGTON—The activities of SIU men aboard ship and on shore are to be dis­ New York 15. SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Joseph Qulnn red Babkowski, Agent Main 3-4334 J played in 170 United States cities, the AFL-CIO reports. The film on the Seafarers, part of Contact Daniel" Cardone, attor­ WILIHNGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. the'AFL-CIO's "Americans At Work" series "will eventually be shown to television audiences Reed Hiunphries, Agent Terminal 4-2528 in every one of the cities in-'*' yolved. uled in 45 states, including Alaska film on local TV outlets include Programs have been sched- and Hawaii. However, since there Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama; are 97 films in the series, it isn't Anchorage, Alaska; San Francisco, possible to give a specific schedule Denver, New Haven, Tampa, Mi­ ' Get That SS as to when the film will be shown. ami, Honolulu, Baltimore, Boston, The "Americans At Work"r proj­ Detroit, Louisville—in fact a com­ plete cross-section of the United A. Number Right ect consists of films on specific Seafarers filing vacation unions and specific crafts in the States, not excluding Lffs Vegas tttformafhn) I mbney claims should make sure AFL-CIO. The SIU film was shot, and Reno-. that they use their correct So­ in part, aboard a Bull Line vessel As a result, many Americans cial Security, number. Use of by a movie crew which rode the who live in the interior and have little or no familiarity with Sea­ the wrong numbei means a cler­ ship on its. coastwise calls and ical headache for the Vacation faring and its problems will "get a filmed shots of life at sea as' well view of Seafaring life. Plan 'office and slovvs up the as of cargo loading and discharge handling of payments. operations in port. in addition to filming the activ­ Also, a Seafarer vvhq uses the ities of Seafarers, SIUNA-affiliated Incorrect! Social Security num­ The film has already been shown fishermen's and fishery workers ber is - crediting his tax- deduc- once in the New York metropoli­ unions have been filmed and their tibns to sojue otbei; .US'worker. tan area . oh , WABC-T.V. Other activities arjp also beipg shown in major cities which-iwill carry the the series. Vol. XXII No. 20 SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIOW/y. UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO

This holiday season. Tike any other, finds many friends.; But wherever they• may' be, on ship or Seafarers manning the merchant ships of the ashore, the SlU extends to them, as well as to all American-flag fleet in the far corners of the globe. affiliated unions and their members, best wish'ss Others have come ashore for the holidays and will for an enjoyable holiday season and for a success­ be spending them at home with their families and. ful year^to come.

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