AMENDING THE MERCHANT HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS THIRD SESSION ON S. 3078 A BILL TO AMEND THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT OF 1936 32437 PART 12 FEBRUARY 16 AND 17, 1938 Printed for the use of the Committee on UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1938 (7 CONTENTS Statement of- Page 1187 1157 1210 1192 AMENDING THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT EXECUTIVE SESSION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D. C. The committees met in executive session at 10 a. m., pursuant to notice, in the committee room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, the Capitol, Senator Royal S. Copeland (chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce) presiding. Present: Senator Copeland (chairman of the Committee on Commerce), Thomas of Utah, Sheppard, Caraway, Clark, Radcliffe, Lee, Berry, Johnson of California, Vandenberg, Murray, Hill, and Davis. Present also: Joseph P. Kennedy, Chairman, United States Maritime Commission; Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, United States Maritime Commission; Max O'Rell Truitt, general counsel, United States Maritime Commission; U. Bon Geaslin, counsel, United States Maritime Commission; John W. Mann, adviser to the committee; Rear Admiral H. G. Hamlet, United States Coast Guard, retired. STATEMENT OF JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, CHAIRMAN UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Kennedy, have you any preference as to where you wish to begin? Mr. KENNEDY. No, sir. I thought the important subjects I might leave until the finish, if you thought everybody would be here then. Senator Guffey called me last night and said that he was withdrawing his bill this morning. I said that I was going to make one more plea for the labor bill. He said he would not be here on time. The CHAIRMAN. Did he say he was going to introduce the other one as a substitute? Mr. KENNEDY. No; he said he was going to drop it altogether. There are one or two matters that are strictly legal, that Mr. Truitt might answer while we are waiting for the others. I understood that you would like to have some discussion upon section 207. The CHAIRMAN. That is on the first page of the committee print of December 2, 1937. It is section 207. Mr. KENNEDY. I would just like to say that we had in mind two particular situations when we introduced that. One was the Dollar Line and one was the Munson Line, the Munson Line now being in the hands of a receiver and now owing us approximately $3,500,000. |