Seamen's Bill of Rights: Hearings Before the Ship Construction and Operation and Maritime Labor Subcommittee of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 476, a Bill to Provide Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of Those Persons who Rendered Wartime Service in the United States Merchant Marine, and to Provide Aid for Their Families |
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Herbert C. , extract from publication , The Navy as a Peacetime Career .. 389
Bradley Hon . Willis W .: Data - unemployment and wages of seamen . 392 , 404
Text of H. R. 47619 Bureau of the Budget , letter to Admiral W. W. Smith , United ...
Herbert C. , extract from publication , The Navy as a Peacetime Career .. 389
Bradley Hon . Willis W .: Data - unemployment and wages of seamen . 392 , 404
Text of H. R. 47619 Bureau of the Budget , letter to Admiral W. W. Smith , United ...
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... to sea again and they still went back to sea again . If they were within the draft
age , if they took advantage of that furlough any longer , perhaps , than the man
in the Navy who came into port , the privileges granted them were withdrawn and
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... to sea again and they still went back to sea again . If they were within the draft
age , if they took advantage of that furlough any longer , perhaps , than the man
in the Navy who came into port , the privileges granted them were withdrawn and
...
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I will not charge the Navy with being unpatriotic because of that . Mr. MALONEY .
It is a fact , is it not , that these men made considerably more money than the men
who were in the Navy ? Mr. MILLER . I presume that is right . Mr. MALONEY .
I will not charge the Navy with being unpatriotic because of that . Mr. MALONEY .
It is a fact , is it not , that these men made considerably more money than the men
who were in the Navy ? Mr. MILLER . I presume that is right . Mr. MALONEY .
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It is just an integral part of our national defense , just as much as the Navy or the
Army . Many years ago we did not accept doctors , for instance , in either of the
services . As late as the SpanishAmerican War the Medical Corps were contract ...
It is just an integral part of our national defense , just as much as the Navy or the
Army . Many years ago we did not accept doctors , for instance , in either of the
services . As late as the SpanishAmerican War the Medical Corps were contract ...
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... the control of the Army and Navy . We want high wages and want to be
removed from this and that , " and now they come back and want it . Is there not
something to that ? Mr. McCANDLESS . I would not follow it as you stated it , Mr.
Weichel .
... the control of the Army and Navy . We want high wages and want to be
removed from this and that , " and now they come back and want it . Is there not
something to that ? Mr. McCANDLESS . I would not follow it as you stated it , Mr.
Weichel .
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| Title | Seamen's Bill of Rights: Hearings Before the Ship Construction and Operation and Maritime Labor Subcommittee of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 476, a Bill to Provide Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of ... |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 30 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 427 pages |
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