Development and Maintenance of Intercoastal Shipping: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on S. 3038, a Bill to Aid in the National Defense to Promote Water-borne Commerce Between the States, to Further the Development and Maintenance of Intercoastal Shipping, and for Other Purposes, Part 1, January 17 and 18, 1938 |
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Page 21 - ... owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
Page 143 - States of more than one hundred tons gross, excepting those navigating rivers, harbors, lakes (other than Great Lakes), bays? sounds, bayous, and canals, exclusively, the licensed officers and sailors, coal passers, firemen, oilers, and water tenders shall, while at sea, be divided into at least three watches, which shall be kept on duty successively for the performance of ordinary work incident to the sailing and management of the vessel. The seamen shall not be shipped to work alternately in the...
Page 143 - ... cargo, or for the saving of life aboard other vessels in jeopardy, or when in port or at sea from requiring the whole or any part of the crew to participate in the performance of fire, lifeboat, and other drills. While such vessel is in a safe harbor no seaman shall be required to do any unnecessary work on Sundays or the following-named...
Page 143 - All of the provisions of section 2 of the Seamen's Act of 1915, as amended (49 Stat. 1933; 46 USC 673), apply to all merchant vessels of the United States of more than 100 tons gross, excepting those navigating rivers, harbors, lakes (other than Great Lakes) , bays, sounds, bayous, and canals, exclusively, and also insofar, as hours of labor on shipboard are concerned, to all tugs documented under the laws of the United States (except boats or vessels used exclusively for fishing purposes) navigating...
Page 70 - I have very little to add to what has already been said. I am manager of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, which represents the commercial interests of a community of 500,000 people.
Page 77 - Roger Babson estimates the value of the tourist business to this country is 11 percent greater than the clothing business; 45 percent greater than the printing and publishing business, 60 percent greater than the lumber business, 185 percent greater than the banking business, 222 percent greater than the shoe industry, 518 percent greater than the cotton crop of 1933, and equal to the giant steel and iron industry.
Page 143 - ... for the performance of ordinary work incident to the sailing and management of the vessel. * * * The seamen shall not be shipped to work alternately in the fireroom and on deck, nor shall those shipped for deck duty be required to work in the fireroom, or vice versa...
Page 2 - The second class shall be iron or steel steamships, capable of maintaining a speed of sixteen knots an hour at sea in ordinary weather, and of a gross registered tonnage of not less than five thousand tons. The third class shall be iron or steel steamships, capable of maintaining a speed of fourteen knots an hour at sea in ordinary weather, and of a gross registered tonnage of not less than two thousand five hundred tons.
Page 143 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not we are very much obliged to you, Doctor.
Page 2 - The rate of compensation to be paid under this title for ocean-mail service shall be fixed in the contract. Such rate shall not exceed: For vessels of Class 7, $1.50 per nautical mile; for vessels of Class 6, $2.50 per nautical mile; for vessels of Class 5, $4 per nautical mile; for vessels of Class 4, $6 per nautical mile; for vessels of Class 3, $8 per nautical mile; for vessels of Class 2, $10 per nautical mile ; and for vessels of Class 1, $12 per nautical mile. As used in this section the term...