Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I, therefore, suggest and request that the 21st of December next be observed throughout the Union with special patriotic services.

The provision of the statute prohibiting the payment of advance wages to seamen is intended to apply to seamen shipped in foreign ports as w...

Every seaman on a vessel of the United States shall be entitled to receive on demand from the master of the vessel to which he belongs one-h...

It shall be, and is hereby, made unlawful in any case to pay any seaman wages in advance of the time when he has actually earned the same.