AMENDING THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT OF 1936 HEARINGS FEB 3 1938 BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE U MEAN AND THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR FORD UNITED STATES SENATE LIBRARIES SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 25 SECOND SESSION ON S. 3078 A BILL TO AMEND THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT OF 1936 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES PART 3 DECEMBER 14, 1937 Printed for the use of the Committee on COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE ROYAL S. COPELAND, New York, Chairman MORRIS SHEPPARD, Texas CHARLES L. McNARY, Oregon JOSIAH LLIAM BAILEY, North Carolina HIRAM W. JOHNSON, California HATTIE W. CARAWAY, Arkansas GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, Missouri ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan JOHN H. OVERTON, Louisiana WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., Maine ERNEST W. GIBSON, Vermont C... GRACE McEĽDOWNEY, Clerk COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah, Chairman ROYAL S. COPELAND, New York WILLIAM E. BORAH. Idaho DAVID I. WALSH, Massachusetts ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., Wisconsin JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana JAMES J. DAVIS, Pennsylvania EARL WIXCEY, Clerk CON TENTS Page 95 Statements of James Mullen, National Maritime Union, Committee for Industrial Organization. building Workers of America, 2332 Broadway, Camden, N. J.- tion, New York, N. Y.. 99 103 AMENDING THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT OF 1936 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1937 UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C. The committees met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10:30 o'clock a. m., in the caucus room, Senate Office Building, Senator Royal S. Copeland, chairman of the Commerce Committee, presiding: Present: Senators Copeland, Thomas of Utah, Guffey, Ellender, Vandenberg, White, Pepper, and Gibson. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The CHAIRMAN. At this point I shall ask to have inserted in the record committee print of S. 1710, as amended. (Committee print of S. 1710, as amended, is as follows:) (Committee Print) (S. 1710, 75th Cong., 1st Sess.) [Omit the part in brackets and insert the part printed in italic) A BILL To provide means for the amicable settlement of all disputes between employers and employees that affect the service of carriers engaged in transportation of passengers and property in the water-borne interstate and foreign commerce of the United States, to promote industrial peace in maritime industry, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 101. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to [avoid all interference with, and interruption of,j promote and maintain the free and safe movement of passengers and property in the interstate and foreign commerce of the United States and it is the purpose of this Act [(1) to regulate employment conditions in the maritime industry as a whole by setting up machinery for the settlement of disputes between employers and employees therein whereby disagreements resulting in strikes and industrial disturbances may be prevented by voluntary agreement and arbitration; (2)] (1) to safeguard the right of employees in the maritime industry to bargin collectively through representatives of their own choosing without interference, influence, or coercion on the part of their employers; [(3)] (2) to impose a binding duty upon employers to recognize and treat with the representatives of their employees; and ((4)] (3) to impose a corresponding duty upon employees to scrupulously observe their voluntary agreements with their employer; and (4) to set up machinery for the settlement of disputes between employers and employees in the maritime industry whereby disagreements resulting |