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DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR_ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by © The Penton Publishing Co. : CLEVELAND. WOSTON. <i. 02 ssi. ss 73-74 Joutnal Bldg. BUEPALO. 000.5. s 03s ov so 932: Ellicott Sa. CHICAGO... .......-.-.1328 Monadnock . Blk. CINCINNATI.......First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK......--.--1005 West Street Bldg. PRETSPURG.). 2... :occsus. 20510 Park Bldg. -SEATTLE........-+...-..302 Pioneer Bldg. Correspondence ion Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per annum. Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News ompany, Breams Building, Chancery ' Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. Weck 11, 1909. THE OPEN SHOP POLICY. The present week in lake circles has been one of great interest.. As is well _ known, the Lake Carriers' - Association declared for the open shop policy on board its vessels hereafter, guarantce- ing the high st of wages and the best of working conditions. No trouble has been experienced in the forward end of the ship nor is any looked forward to; but .the Marine Engineers' Bene-. ficial Association objects to its mem- bers entering into contract with the vessel owners upon the new _ basis, though it does not. object to them performing the work. The Lake Car- riers' Association, however, is commit- ted irrevocably to the ogen shop pol- icy. Two of the fleets enrolled in the association, the Pittsburg Steamship Co. and Pickands, Mather & Co., met with their engineers this. week, an account of which will be found else- where in this issue. 'The address of Harry Coulby, : president and general manager of the THe Marine REVIEW Pittsburg Steamship Co., was the lead- ing feature of these meetings. That address is commended to everyone. It should be read by everyone employed aboard ship on the lakes. be read with especial attenvion by every engineer. Let him then leave to his own conscience the question as to whether there is anything objection- able or unfair about it. It is one of the fairest, broadest and most enlight- ened statements ever submittcd by an employer to his men. throughout with a disposition to be = fair. That it should also be firm is 'inseparable from its spirit of fairness. No man can be fair unless he has the firmness to defend and maintain fair conditions. Mr. Coulby's statement marks an im- portant. step in the history of the lakes. It is am: epitome of the great efforts that have been made on the great lakes during the past few years to bring cohesion into the business and to make the interests of capital and labor a common one. 'There can be.no real success unless both work -in unison. CONGRESSIONAL ACTS AFFECT- ING SHIPPING. As tay a6. the sixty-first first' session of the congress is concerned it passed only four measures affecting shipping. The first was the steerage accommodation bill, increastng aceom- modations of and adding to the com- The sec- ond was a bill deducting from the fort of steerage passengers. gross. tonnage of vessels hatchway The purpose of this bill is to bring the spaces and. water ballast spaces. law of the United States in substantia] accord with the laws of Great Britain, Germany and other maritime coun- tries. The third bill was an amendment to Section 4434 of the Revised Statutes This embodies an agreement on desirable changes made by the Board of Super- vising Inspectors of Steam Vessels and the boilermakers of the United States. The fourth bill appropriated $5,000 for the representation of the United States at the Brussels conference relating to boiler construction, It should It is permeated "ie which will meet probably in Septem. ber or October for preparation 9j international treaties or conventions on subjects specified in the bill, The steerage accommodation bill reads as follows: That section one of the 1882 be, and is hereby, read: "Tt shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel whereon steerage Passengers ue been taken at any port or place in a forma. country or dominion (ports and places ign foreign territory contiguous to the Unies States. excepted) to bring such vessel] aad passengers to or take from any port or plac in the United States unless the chamaa. ments, spaces, and accommodations herein. after mentioned have been provided, allotted maintained, and used for and by such pas. sengers during the entire voyage, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods. The master of vessel coming to a port or place in the United States in violation of any of the pro. visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and if the number of steerage passengers carried or brought in the vessel, or in any. compartment, space, poop or deck house thereof, is greater than the passenger A amended 09 = : number allowed to be carried or brought therein, _ respectively, as _ hereinafter pre. scribed, the said master shall be fined fifty dollars for each and every such passenger in excess of the proper number, and may also imprisoned not exceeding six months, _ "In computing the number of passengers carried or brought in any vessel, children under one year of age shall not be included, and two children between one and eight years of age shall be counted as one pas- senger; and any person brought in such vessel who shall have been, during the voyage, taken from any other vessel wrecked or in distress on the high seas, or have been picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or otherwise, shall not be included in such computation. "Second. The expression 'steerage senger' means all passengers except cabin passengers, and persons shall not be deemed cabin passengers unless the space allotted to their exclusive use is in the proportion of at least thirty-six clear superficial feet to. each passenger. 'Phird... The pas- expression 'lowest passenger deck' means the deck next below the water line; and the expression 'passenger deck' in- cludes every deck or portion of a deck which is above the lowest passenger deck, and is appropriated for passengers. "Fourth... A vessel shall not carry passen- gers, whether cabin or steerage passengers, on more than: one deck below the water line. "Fifth. The height between that part of any deck on which steerage passengers are carried and the deck immediately above it shall not be less than six feet. -- "Sixth. No steerage passenger shall be earried on the lowest. passenger deck unless it is efficiently lighted by side scuttles and otherwise to the satisfaction of the inspector. "Seventh. No greater number of steerage passengers shall be carried on the lowest passenger deck than in the pronvortion of one steerage passenger to every twenty-one clear superficial feet allotted to their use. If, however, the height between the lowest pas sencer deck and the deck immediately above it is less than seven feet, and the apet- tures exclusive of side scuttles, through which light and air are admitted are less in size than in the proportion of three sauare feet to fect of that every One hundred superficial deck, no greater number: of steerage passen- gers shall be carried on that deck than the. proportion of one steerage passenger to every thirty clear superficial feet thereot, subject to the allowance for measurement of public rooms, lavatories, and bathrooms, 1 anv. provided for by paragraph ten. 'Eighth. No greater number of steerage passensers may be carried on a passenger deck than in the proportion of one steerage passenger to every eighteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their use, subject, 1 the allowance for measurement of public rooms, lavatories, and bathrooms, if any, pro- vided for by paragraph ten. Tt, es the height between any 'passenger deck an the deck immediately above it be less than seven feet, no greater number of steetast passengers may be carried on that deck eo in the proportion of one _ steerage passen S to every twenty-one clear superficial fee thereof, subject to the allowance for measure-