Box 49

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Correspondence, reports, and printed material concerning legislation and issues brought before the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

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A copy of a statement made by the Secretary of Labor brought before the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries concerning labor management relations in the maritime industry.

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A copy of the United States House of Representative's Legislative Calendar for the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for the Eighty-Seventh Congress.

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A letter written in opposition to legislation (H. R. 6417) to provide regulations governing the physical qualification of merchant mariners for signing articles for service on United States merchant vessels.

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Correspondence concerning merchant marine legislation including higher wages, the sale of government owned merchant vessels to United States citizens, and general efforts to promote the merchant marines.

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Correspondence and reports concerning Panama Canal legislation including the discontinuance of the Panama Line, firefighting forces, regulation of the Panama Canal Company, and the regulation of archeological exploration in the Canal Zone.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, and hearings concerning legislation (H. R. 207) to provide for limitation of liability for vessel owners in suits by third parties based upon the warranty of seaworthiness. The legislation was intended to correct the effects of a decision of the Supreme Court which encouraged injured longshoremen to forsake the benefits of Workmen's Compensation and instead, on the grounds of a breach of the warranty of seaworthiness, sue vessel owners who implead stevedoring...

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Correspondence and reports concerning legislation (H. R. 2488) to provide for the licensing of independent ocean freight forwarders.