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Thomas B. Crowley Elected President At

Western Shipbuilding Ass'n Annual Meeting

Thomas B. Crowley

An overflow throng of members and friends of the industry were on hand for the annual membership meeting of the Western Shipbuild- ing- Association, which was held in the Pavilion Room of the Fairmont

Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., on

January 18, 1974. George W. Wintz, outgoing president of the Associ- ation following three full years at the helm, reported on the intensive activities of WSA in 1973, during its successful efforts to convince the Congress of the great need for more Navy ship repair work. He gave special credit to E.J. Glenn, assistant to the WSA president for three years, commending him for his fine work in personally supply- ing members of 'Congress with fact sheets, statistics, and other material documenting the private shipyard case in the Navy issue.

Mr. Wintz declared that the suc- cess of the 'Congressional contact program was the result of a highly coordinated effort in which West- ern Shipbuilding Association offi- cers, directors and members of the executive board worked closely with officials of the Shipbuilders

Council of America, New England

Ship Repair Yard Association, and

New York New Jersey Dry Dock

Association. Two labor organiza- tions—Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of

America (IUMSWA) and Pacific 'Coast Metal Trades District Coun- cil—were also highly commended for the important part they played in the overall effort.

For the benefit of members who were unable to attend the annual meeting, the January 2, 1974 elec- tion of directors by mail resulted in election of the slate as nominated by the nominating committee and submitted to the membership for vote.

The annual meeting of the WSA board of directors was held in San

Francisco on January 18, 1974, pri- or to the membership meeting, and the officers elected at that meeting to serve the Association during 1974 were announced as follows:

Chairman of the board, George

W. Wintz, president, Willamette

Iron & Steel 'Co., Portland, Ore. ; president, Thomas B. Crowley, president, 'Crowley Maritime Corp.,

San Francisco, Calif.; first vice president, Thomas A. Rotell, presi- dent, Pacific Coast Metal Trades

District Council, San Francisco; and executive secretary-treasurer,

Bernard W. Evans, public relations director, Crowley Maritime Corp.,

San Francisco.

Area vice presidents were elected as follows:

SEATTLE —James H. Francis, general manager, Lake Union Dry- dock Co.; Malcolm E. McLaren, secretary-treasurer, Metal Trades

Council of Seattle and Vicinity; and Carl R. Meurk, general man- ager, Todd Shipyards Corp.

PORTLAND—Arthur E. Farr, vice president and general manager,

Northwest Marine Iron Works;

Edward J. Glenn, assistant to the president, Willamette Iron & Steel

Co.; Norman W. Hicks, business manager-secretary treasurer, Inter- national Brotherhood of Boiler- makers, Iron Ship Builders, Black- smiths, Forgers and Helpers, Union

Local No. 72; and Henry P. Mc-

Carthy, secretary-treasurer, Metal

Trades Council of Portland and

Vicinity.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — P.G. Filip, general manager,

Bethlehem Steel Corp., San Fran- cisco Shipyard ; Angel Garate, gen- eral manager, Todd Shipyards 'Corp., Alameda Shipyard; Clifford

P. LeGette, general manager, Tri- ple "A" Machine Shop, Inc.; and

John D. Reilly, vice president,

Todd Shipyards Corp.

LOS ANGELES-LONG BEACH —Carl M.Lippincott, general man- ager, Todd Shipyards Corp.; A.J.

Maloney, general manager, Beth- lehem Steel Corp., San Pedro Ship- yard ; John E. Marriner, president,

Barge Train, Inc.; and Vernon F.

Passmore, president, Industrial

Union of Marine and Shipbuilding

Workers of America, Local #9.

SAN DIEGO—Paul W. Pepper, president, Pepper Industries, Inc.

HONOLULU —Sueo Hayashi- da, vice president, Pacific Marine &

Supply Co. Ltd., and Richard Ku- wada, president, Pacific Container

Service, Inc.

The guest speaker, the Honor- able Robert J. Blackwell, Assistant

Secretary of Commerce for Mari- time Affairs, discussed the growing backlog of construction contracts for U.S. merchant ships in West

Coast shipyards. He forecast a re- surgence of the Pacific Coast ship- building industry, which had been almost dormant for a time, with only seven ships built on the entire

West Coast from 1963 to 1972. Ac- cording to Mr. Blackwell, the West

Coast shipbuilding industry within the next new months could have on its books more than 2.6-million tons of merchant shipping valued at more than $1 billion, a far cry from the five-ship $60-million order book of 10 years ago.

Thomas B. Crowley, newly elect- ed president of Western Shipbuild- ing Association for 1974, will be serving in that capacity for the third time. He previously held the organization's top post in 1968 and 1969, two highly important years in which the efforts of the Associ- ation at the time of Congressional hearings on the Merchant Marine

Act of 1970 were credited with hav- ing been largely responsible for re- tention in the new legislation of the "'Buy American" clause in its exact language of the 1936 Act. The

Association at the same time had also lent vigorous support to the inclusion of several other essential sections that appeared in the final language . of that historic legisla- tion.

Mr. Crowley has vowed complete support and implementation of the recent important programs of the

Association directed toward better- ment and preservation of the pri- vate shipyard industry and its many related industries, trades and crafts.

Robert E. Mayer, who was seat- ed as an honored guest at the head table, was cited for the dedicated manner in which he contributed freely of his personal time and efforts on behalf of the Western

Shipbuilding Association from the time of its founding in 1959 to the date of his resignation in 1973. Mr.

Mayer, who served as the first sec- retary of the Association and its president in 1966 and 1967, was in his second year as chairman of the board when he resigned on May 22, 1973, the date he left the shipyard industry to accept the post of vice president with States Steamship

Company.

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