Grace Line has announced two promotions in its labor relations staff: Ernest E. Smith has been named assistant to the vice-president, industrial relations, and Charles J. Lesica will succeed him as manager, marine labor relations.
Mr. Smith, a Rutgers University graduate, joined Grace Line in 1943 and began his career sailing as a wartime purser. In 1965 after assignments in the purchasing department where he was in charge of commissary maintenance and repair, he was transferred to the marine labor relations department to which he was appointed manager in 1967.
Mr. Lesica came to Grace Line in 1950 following service in the U.S. Army and three years in a partnership enterprise. He was assigned to the marine labor relations department in 1966 after holding positions in the port purser's department, and as stevedoring cost analyst, warehouse manager, and finally, stevedore for the Santa Rosa-Santa Paula operation. He was named assistant manager of the marine labor relations department in March 1968.