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In spotlight at U.S. Maritime commission hearing. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. The U.S. Maritime Commission opened a general hearing on maritime labor conditions in an attempt to determine methods of avoiding costly industrial disputes which have hampered the American Merchant Marine and discouraged investment of Capital in shipbuilding. Among the first to be heard were, left to right, John W. Meal, of Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific Coast; Mervyn Rathbone, President of the American Radio Telegraphists Association; and Francis J. Goodall, National Maritime Union of Cooks and Stewards. Rathbone told the commission that minimum wages fixed by the government become the maximum rates paid by ship operators. Many telegraphists have thrown out of work ... the adoption of the automatic alarm system appro... ... F.C.C., Rathbone also told the commission. 82337
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A group of men sitting next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch four.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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