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00:00La historia es simple, pero dramática.
00:10La historia de los hombres que cruan our ship, los seafarers.
00:15Cada seafarer se reconocer en lo que se hace algo de él.
00:19Familiar scenes, los faces de los hombres que compartan su camino, su manera de vida,
00:25y quizás algo más.
00:27Call it a dream fulfilled.
00:30I'm Don Hollenbeck.
00:34Joseph Conrad wrote a lot of things about the sea, and among other things, he wrote this.
00:40The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from land.
00:46And here's something else I came across the other day that interested me very much.
00:51Ever since the days of sailing ships, seafaring has drawn to it men of many different types.
00:57And yet they have one thing in common, these men.
01:01It's the quality that makes men want to live not in a city or in a town, but in the world.
01:08It's the true spirit of independence, and it's always been deeply rooted in the seafaring tradition.
01:16And now to go on with this little essay.
01:18Nobody knows better than a seafaring man that any man, however independent he is, isn't entirely independent.
01:28He's a member of something larger, of a family, of a community, of a nation, or bring it back to seafaring.
01:39He's a member of a crew, a crew of men like himself, banded together for one essential common purpose.
01:49Now the picture you're going to see now is the story of men who are banded together for one essential common purpose.
01:59This is a vital story in their daily lives and their achievements.
02:02It's a proud story, made possible by the deeds of seafaring men.
02:07It's the story of the SIU.
02:10The story of the SIU.
02:21The story of the SIU.
02:23The story of the SIU.
02:26¡Gracias!
02:56From Vancouver down the long Pacific coast, around the great curve of the Gulf of Mexico, up the rim of the Atlantic from Tampa to Halifax, in every major North American port close by the waterfront, there is a headquarters of the Seafarers' International Union.
03:22This is headquarters for the SIU Atlantic and Gulf District. More than just a building, a solidly impressive symbol of what seafarers have achieved.
03:36And like every SIU headquarters, the heart of this one is its hiring hall, run by seafarers for seafarers.
03:46One coast-wise, one second cooking bacon.
03:53Is there any more?
03:56Have a book, group one, April the 16th. Book group one, April the 16th.
04:01In this SIU hall, as in others, seafarers can pick berths on ships of many types, going almost anywhere in the world. Antwerp, Cape Town, London, Marseille, Singapore.
04:14You name it. Picking his destination is the right of every seafarer.
04:22And sometimes more than a right, a duty. In the great seafaring tradition, a duty voluntarily assumed.
04:31Every true seafarer respects courage. The courage of men of all national origins and religions that has created seafaring tradition and built the SIU.
04:46A seafarer coming ashore in any United States port no longer needs to feel cut adrift as many once did.
05:01He has a place to go.
05:16A union hall built by seafarers to meet the needs and suit the tastes of seafarers.
05:23Big, modern, efficient in safeguarding the rights and interests of those who go to sea,
05:28but never forgetting that the machines and the files and the figures are there to serve the seafarers and not the other way around.
05:36Staffed by experts, but under the supervision of men who know what it is to top a boom,
05:41to batten down a hatch, to weigh an anchor.
05:58Financial statements posted weekly in every port for seafarers to read.
06:17And an SIU print shop turns out regular bulletins and reports,
06:21airmailed to seafarers on SIU contracted ships around the world.
06:51A good seafarer's headquarters has to begin where others leave off.
06:55For seafarers coming ashore in the port away from home, it ought to be and is a second home,
07:00where no man off a ship is a stranger to the rest, and where the things he needs are close at hand.
07:06Like this SIU cafeteria, open to the public but mainly for the convenience of seafarers.
07:12Lots of space, lots of good, inexpensive food.
07:37It's really nice and expensive food.
07:40The galley, well stocked, has been a nice day to get out of time.
07:44And, as of course,
07:48to remove theural buster's heads from home.
07:51And their guests are all of the great,
07:53to not work with the galley of the park.
07:55The galley, well stocked,
07:59and destroyed.
08:00And to work with the gate,
08:02the galley is a perfect,
08:04is a big deal of fire.
08:05The galley, well stocked and well scrubbed.
08:09A pleasant sight after any voyage is the SIU Barbershop,
08:14another of the many conveniences at SIU headquarters.
08:26The SIU Seachest, which meets SIU contractual port with ship and shore gear,
08:31takes orders, makes deliveries from SIU warehouses and SIU trucks,
08:36maintains this headquarters store for those ashore with some refitting to do.
08:55The SIU's port of call.
08:57From the figurehead on the ship-shaped bar to the faces of men you have shipped with,
09:02a friendly spot for seafarers ashore to spend some time,
09:06to relax, to meet shipmates,
09:09or to bring some friends.
09:14But the hiring hall through which every job on every SIU ship in port is filled
09:33is the center of it all.
09:36Here, seafarers get their jobs not as a favor but as a right
09:40in the order in which they apply for them.
09:49When a seafarer registers for a birth, he gets a registration card.
09:54The card, filled out right in front of him,
09:56is stamped with a number marked with the date of his application.
10:00Then this information, name, job classification, date, and number,
10:05is typed onto a list which is posted in full view.
10:09When two or more seafarers throw in for the same job,
10:26the one with the registration card showing the earlier date
10:38and lower number gets it,
10:40and any seafarer in the hall can check these for himself.
10:44What's more, a seafarer can pass up a birth
11:01because he would rather work another type of ship
11:03or one headed for his favorite ports
11:06without losing his place on top of the list.
11:09Two deck mates.
11:22Max, do you want to stay in the middle?
11:3220.
11:32Have 30, Lord, as we move on.
11:3420.
11:358, Lord, as we move on.
11:378, Lord, as we move on.
11:39Sip.
11:47La llamada es cada hora de la hora, pero no hay que estar en line o idling en la calle en entretenida.
11:54El seafarer waiting for a ship no tiene que quitarle tiempo en S.I.U. Headquarters.
11:59Se puede disfrutar.
12:06Se puede disfrutar.
12:09Sip.
12:11La llamada de trampa
12:33He can shoot the breeze, write a letter, read a book.
12:36o play some cards
12:50he can try his hand at one of these games
13:06or take a look at works of art by fellow seafarers carvings and paintings done aboard ship
13:23some good enough for any gallery
13:31and for those staying ashore a while there's an SIU school
13:38well we've pretty much covered that subject
13:44all of us have had our say
13:46and we come to the next question
13:49that is, what does a union mean to you?
13:53George
13:55I'd say protection on the job, security
13:58it means the boss can't shove me around
14:00anyone else?
14:02the big thing is how you take home pay
14:05that overtime along with the penalty pay
14:08much a load of groceries
14:10any other ideas?
14:12yes Paul
14:14I look at it this way
14:16I see other guys doing things together
14:19I want to be part of it
14:23being part of his group
14:25SIU provides benefits of many kinds to the seafarer and his family
14:29when he is likely to need them most
14:32all of them financed by company contributions required by SIU contracts
14:37and costing seafarers not a cent
14:41you can sum these benefits up in one word
14:44security
14:46the security seafarers gain by working together in their common interests
14:51as he does
15:03and his family
15:05is showing a degree
15:07to help them
15:08you can't buy any ads
15:09you can't buy any JNP
15:11as he is
15:12you can't buy any of them
15:13Por ejemplo, hay un beneficio de $200 para ayudar a un seafarer y su familia.
15:43Plus, a $25 bond for baby.
15:55And later on, the children of seafarers have a chance at SIU college scholarships.
16:03Seafarers become eligible for vacation pay after every 90 days they have worked.
16:08And in the SIU, as every seafarer knows, there is no red tape.
16:12This whole operation takes five minutes or a little more.
16:35The SIU never loses sight of the fact that it exists
16:38to serve its seafaring members in every way it can, wherever they may be.
16:44That is why seafarers created the SIU.
16:48Every hospitalized seafarer knows, at least once a week,
17:01an SIU representative will come by to say hello to fill personal requests.
17:07And pay the SIU's weekly hospital benefit of $15 in cash.
17:22And pay the SIU's weekly hospital benefit of $15 in cash.
17:25And pay the SIU's weekly hospital benefit of $15 in cash.
17:29And this goes on for as long as a seafarer is hospitalized, weeks, months, or years.
17:36And this goes on for as long as a seafarer is hospitalized, weeks, months, or years.
17:43For disabled seafarers or those too old to go to sea, the SIU weekly disability benefit of $25
17:50comes in handy.
17:51Seafarer's gains through the SIU has been one step by the way.
17:52And this goes on for as long as a seafarer is hospitalized, weeks, months, or years.
18:05For disabled seafarers or those too old to go to sea, the SIU weekly disability benefit of $25
18:11comes in handy.
18:17Seafarer's gains through the SIU have been won step by step
18:20in victories on ships of Isthmian, City Service, and other lines
18:24through the solidarity of seafarers themselves backed by the SIU.
18:30Of one SIU victory in a major tanker fleet, the Senate committee said,
18:34it is amazing that any union could survive this heavily financed, lawyer-led attack.
18:41But winning through the democratic process of collective bargaining is an SIU habit,
18:51as these headlines from its newspaper, The Seafarer's Log, show.
18:56The Seafarer's Log, often called the country's best labor paper, is airmailed to SIU ships everywhere,
19:03keeping seafarers informed of SIU progress, progress such as this.
19:09Shipping lines under contract up from eight to 84, SIU assets up from less than $100,000 to close to $3 million.
19:22Cash benefits to seafarers now running into millions.
19:37Seafarers' earnings tripled through SIU contracts. Impressive, isn't it?
19:55With the best contracts in the maritime industry, the SIU makes sure that seafarers get the full benefit of those contracts.
20:10An SIU representative goes aboard all incoming ships to represent the crew
20:15in ironing out all grievances, claims, and disputes before the payoff.
20:20This SIU representation assures every seafarer that he will be paid off in full.
20:42A seafarer's union, in doing its job, must meet and service its members aboard ship.
20:53The SIU brings its services to its members, not waiting for the members to come to it.
21:15Working on board ship, every seafarer knows that his job, his rights on his job,
21:37and his rights and interests ashore are fully protected through his cooperation with other seafarers,
21:43not only in his crew, but in his union.
21:47This explains why SIU organizers, when they approach members of unorganized crews, get a friendly welcome.
22:12And real cooperation in providing SIU support for those who want the benefits of SIU membership.
22:31Membership in a union that represents seafarers effectively because it is controlled by seafarers in the democratic way.
22:41All officers of the SIU are elected. No one can be a candidate for SIU office unless he has spent at least three years at sea,
22:50a guarantee that he will understand seafarers' problems.
22:56On ship and on shore, all SIU policies are decided by the majority vote of seafarers with plenty of time for discussion.
23:09Every SIU meeting begins with a statement reminding seafarers of the rights guaranteed them in the SIU Constitution,
23:17calling on them to exercise those rights.
23:24The right of any seafarer to nominate himself or any other seafarer as a meeting officer or to any committee.
23:31WAITING
23:37La libertad de cualquier seafarer
24:04to speak his mind on any issue.
24:21The right to vote on every issue.
24:24The right to straight talk from SIU officers.
24:28Listen to Paul Hall, Secretary-Treasurer of the SIU Atlantic and Gulf District.
24:32Brother Chandler, officers of the meeting, fellow seafarers, you have heard in the previous
24:46part of this meeting, our organizers make the report that we have petitioned a very large,
24:52unorganized company for the purpose of representing their employees for collective bargaining reasons.
24:59You know, as I do, that the seamen in that particular company are going to vote in our favor.
25:07Those men are going to vote in our favor because they know what kind of a union that we are.
25:13They know the things that we represent.
25:15They know the things that we want to do.
25:18They know, for example, that in this union we have the most fair democratic system of hiring ever known to any American industry.
25:29They know, too, that we have in this organization the most democratic constitution in the trade union movement,
25:37whereby no decision can be made to affect our people unless that decision is made on the floor of meetings just such as these.
25:45They know, too, that this organization has advantaged agreements ever negotiated in the entire maritime history.
25:53They know that the seamen under those agreements are the highest paid seamen in the world.
25:58They know, too, of our many broad benefits that we have for our people.
26:03They know of the payments we make for hospital benefits, vacation benefits.
26:08They know, too, of the disability, regardless of age.
26:11When you can't work in this organization, you are put on a pension so that you will be taken care of.
26:17They know of the death benefits. They know of the maternity benefits.
26:21They know, too, of the fact that we have scholarship benefits.
26:25The men in that particular fleet also realize that we have a tremendous economic strength here,
26:31an economic strength that enables us to be protected against the boss if such need arises.
26:38They know, too, that while we do possess such large economic strength, that we do not abuse that strength.
26:46The SIU's economic strength, used effectively but without abuse, has meant much to seafarers.
26:54Security, a higher standard of living, a position of respect in their communities.
27:16Today, every seafarer beginning a voyage goes up the gangplank, secure in the knowledge that he and his family can depend on the protection of a great organization.
27:34An organization the seafarers themselves, with their own intelligence and effort, have brought into being.
27:41You've seen the story of how the seafarers, conscious of their rights and their responsibility, gather for their common objectives.
27:55Dignity, security, a better way of life for themselves and for their families.
28:02This is the story of the SIU.
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