Regulating Licensed Officers and Hours of Labor on Vessels of Certain Tonnage: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 3348, H. R. 7979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 147 pages |
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Page 130 - ... no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing...
Page 130 - That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization...
Page 43 - No vessel of the United States subject to the provisions of this title or to the inspection laws of the United States shall be navigated unless she shall have in her service and on board such complement of licensed officers and crew, including certificated lifeboat men, separately stated, as may, in the judgment of the local inspectors who inspect the vessel, be necessary for her safe navigation.
Page 1 - ... of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved...
Page 32 - ... sec. 2. That the board of local inspectors shall make an entry in the certificate of inspection of every ocean and coastwise seagoing merchant vessel of the United States propelled by machinery, and every ocean-going vessel carrying passengers, the minimum number of licensed deck officers required for her safe navigation...
Page 60 - In this connection, it is to be noted that for many years it has been the policy of the United States Government to improve the canals and inland waterways all over the country so as to stimulate and encourage the transportation of commodities by water. The enactment of this bill would not tend to promote the aforesaid policy of the Government.
Page 2 - Authority to permit an officer of any vessel to ta.ke charge of the deck watch of the vessel upon leaving or immediately after leaving port, unless such officer shall have had at least six hours off duty within the twelve hours immediately preceding the time of sailing, and no licensed officer on any ocean or coastwise vessel shall be required to do duty to exceed nine hours of any twenty-four while in port, including the date of arrival, or more than twelve hours of any twenty-four at sea, except...
Page 88 - Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, or to wrecking vessels. Scc- 8- That it shall be unlawful for the master, owner, agent, or other person having authority to permit an officer of any vessel to take charge of the deck watch of the vessel upon leaving or immediately after leaving port, unless such officer shall have had at least six hours off duty within the twelve hours immediately preceding the time of sailing...
Page 32 - That every such vessel of one thousand gross tons and over, propelled by machinery, shall have in her service and on board three licensed mates, who shall stand in three watches while such vessel is being navigated, unless such vessel is engaged in a run of less than four hundred miles from the port of departure to the port of final...
Page 121 - Boileau, if you desire to make a statement to the committee in reference to this matter, we will be very glad to hear you at this time. STATEMENT OF HON.