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Woodrow Wilson: “The provision of the statute prohibiting the payment of advance wages to seamen is intended to apply to seamen shipped…”

On the recordJuly 20, 1920
The provision of the statute prohibiting the payment of advance wages to seamen is intended to apply to seamen shipped in foreign ports as well as to seamen shipped in ports of the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 3313—Wages of Seamen

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