Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-04 | Page 3 | New Seamen's Law is Effective Today |

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Date	1916-03-04
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	New Seamen's Law is Effective Today
Type	article
Date	1916-03-04
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	3
OCR Text	Show NEW SEAMEN'S LAW LAWIS LAWI IS EFFECTIVE TODAY NEW YORK March 4 Preparations have hale been made here to put into effect today the La Follette seamen's law as applied to foreign vessels It has been operative since November 4 as affecting American ships Government Government Govern Govern- Government ment agents are expected to refuse clearance papers pavers to any foreign ships failing tailing to comply with the requirements require require- ments meats of or the act These the personnel of the crew rights of Individual Individual individual Indi indi- vidual seamen and safety appliances Notification has been ample that representatives representatives representatives rep rep- of the commerce com corn merce look for no violation Foreign vessels however will be inspected to see that the law is obeyed
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