Communications to Continued Yarborough, Hon. Ralph-Continued Kane, Joseph S., secretary, ILA District Council, Port of Phila- Kirchhoff, D. J., president, Standard Fruit & Steamship Co., Page 450 Kelly, Thomas P., Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., New York, 422 446 Lallier, F. A., president, Brownsville Maritime Association, 434 Leever, R. D., vice president of docks and wharves, Gulf Florida 445 Lindsay, Dennis, special counsel, National Maritime Compensa- 240 419 Lott, A. W., Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Houston, Tex., 407 Lykes, J. T., Jr., chairman of the board, Lykes Bros. Steamship 415 Mathiasen, M. W., president, Mathiasen, General Cargo Service, McEniry, Charles, vice president, Texas Transport & Terminal 408 403 Megee, R. D., vice president, J. A. McCarthy, Inc., Philadelphia, 430 Meyle, Herman, secretary, Independent Pier Co., Philadelphia, 438 Miller, R. L., vice president, Drummond Dolomite, Inc., Cleve- 457 Murphy, Daniel A., president-business manager, Lighter Cap- 439 423 O'Reilly, J. B., Jr., district manager, Farrell Lines, Inc., Phila- 409 Ostos, R. L., Jr., Dix Shipping Co. of Corpus Christi, Corpus 404 Pate, W. H., Jr., secretary-treasurer, Pate Stevedore Co., Pensa- 450 Peebles, E. B., Jr., executive vice president, Ryan Stevedoring Co., 449 Peterson, Mrs. Esther, Assistant Secretary of Labor, January 23, 51 Philips, Peter R., president, Houston Maritime Association, 406 Reitze, Wm., Chas. Kurz Co., Philadelphia, Pa., March 1, 1968- 455 457 411 420 Ruffin, Peter B., president, Wilmington Shipping Co., Wilming- 434 Shallow, E. F., the Hinkins Steamship Agency, Inc., Philadelphia, 452 Sherman, F. S., president, Calmar Steamship Corp., Sparrows 443 Simms, George R., Jr., cast gulf manager, Kerr Steamship Co., 445 Smith, Terence J., president, T. Smith & Son, Inc., New Orleans, 437 Sobelman, Stuart J., president, B. H. Sobelman & Co., Inc., 454 Communications to-Continued Yarborough, Hon. Ralph-Continued Sporl, C. A., Jr., chairman of the board, C. A. Sporl & Co., Inc., Page 447 Stout, Arthur W., Jr., general manager, Todd Shipyards Corp., 405 452 Strachan, F. G., president, Strachan Shipping Co., Savannah, Ga., Strickland, Lloyd, vice president, finance, Gulf & South American Tyler, Harrison, president, International Longshoremen's Associa- Van Abel, C. H., administrative vice president and secretary, the 423 424 432 436 440 448 Walsh, W. D., president, Walsh Stevedoring Co., Inc., Mobile, 414 Webb, H. St. John, III, T. Hogan Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., 410 410 432 458 457 Wilcox, Thomas D., counsel and executive secretary, Great Lakes Wilson, Arthur, president, Local No. 1694, International Longshoremen's Association, Wilmington, Del., March 6, 1968.... Young, W. C., secretary-treasurer, Local 1610, International Longshoremen's Association, Beaumont, Tex., March 1, 1968 "Compensation and Commonsense,' a maritime industry white paper by John S. Rogers, New York admiralty lawyer and writer of maritime matters Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to bar third- Addition of attorneys' fees to compensation awards, prepared by com- Provision relating to compensation for aliens, prepared by committee staff___ 365 127 105 102 Replying to Mrs. Peterson's letter of January 23, 1968, and accompanying memorandum from the Department of Labor on thirdparty suits submitted by Dennis Lindsay and Jerard S. Weigler, firm of Krause, Lindsay & Nahstoll.. Third-party suits under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, supplied by the U.S. Department of Labor - Third party suits under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, supplied by AFL-CIO organizations... Pacific Maritime Association's Accident Prevention Department, summary of, by Ralph B. Dewey, San Francisco, Calif....... 241 51 70 169 LONGSHOREMEN'S AND HARBOR WORKERS' AMENDMENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1967 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC Welfare, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 4232, Senate Office Building, Senator Ralph Yarborough (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Members present: Senators Yarborough and Morse. Committee staff members present: Robert O. Harris, counsel; Eugene Mittelman, minority counsel; and Peter C. Benedict, minority labor counsel. Senator YARBOROUGH. The Subcommittee on Labor will come to order. Today we begin hearings on S. 2485, a bill to amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, to improve its benefits, and for other purposes, authored by Senator Morse and me, and S. 1372, a bill to increase compensation under the War Hazards Compensation Act. These are the first Senate hearings since 1961 on the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. The provisions of this act have been extended in previous Congresses to include the District of Columbia Workmen's Compensation Act, the Defense Base Act, the War Hazards Compensation Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and the Nonappropriated Funds Instrumentalities Act. Any contemplated amendments in the Longshoremen's Act, therefore, apply to persons working in the District of Columbia, persons working for private contractors employed on military bases outside the continental United States, persons employed for the benefit of the United States where there is a war hazard, persons employed on the Outer Continental Shelf, and persons employed in post exchanges throughout the world. This hearing is being called to consider this bill which, as I previously mentioned, was introduced by Senator Morse and me, on behalf of the administration. In the 89th Congress, on August 19, 1966, Senator Morse introduced a bill, S. 3746, which would have changed the benefits to be paid for injuries covered under this act. The bill before us for consideration is broader in scope than that prior bill. We have scheduled 5 days of hearings in order to allow all interested persons an opportunity to testify before us. It is our hope that any changes in the law which are desired will be presented to the committee at this time in this 5 days of hearings this week and next week. However, we are aware, since this bill has only been pending for 2 months, all the backup material which might be presented may not be presently available due to the scope of the bill. I therefore intend to instruct the committee counsel, and minority counsel, to keep the subcommittee records relating to these hearings open until January 15, 1968, and statements can be filed through January 15. If, at that time, it appears advisable, it is my intention to hold a 1-day hearing in mid-January to allow each interested group to summarize very briefly any additional information not presently available regarding the various proposals which may be made to us. Let me repeat: The record will be kept open for any additional statements. It will not be printed until after that midpoint in January. At this point, I order the text of S. 2485 and S. 1372 printed in the record. (The texts of the bills, S. 2485 and S. 1372, follow :) |