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75TH  CONGRESS    HOUSE   OF REPRESENTATIVES           REPORT
   3d Session                                        No.  1950





              MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1938


MARCH  15, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
              state of the Union and ordered to be printed


Mr. BLAND, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
                    submitted the following

                        REPORT
                    [To accompany H. R. 9710J

  The  Committee on Merchant  Marine and Fisheries, to whom was
referred the bill (H. R. 9710) to amend the Merchant Marine Act,
1936, to further promote the merchant-marine policy therein declared
and for other purposes, report it back to the House without amend-
ment and recommend  that the bill do pass.

                  GENERAL STATEMENT
  The  committee held extensive hearings on the bill (H. R. 8532),
and after considering and amending that bill the chairman by direc-
tion of the committee introduced the bill (H. R. 9710) now reported,
which is the bill H. R. 8532, as amended by your committee. The
purpose of the bill as set forth in the title is to amend the Merchant
Marine  Act, 1936, to further promote the merchant-marine policy
therein declared, and for other purposes. A summary of the bill
by sections appears later in this report. (See p. 17.)
  Under date of November  10, 1937, Joseph P. Kennedy, Chairman
of the United States Maritime Commission, pursuant to the Merchant
Marine Act of 1936, transmitted to the Congress the Economic Survey
of the American Merchant  Marine which had just been completed
by the United States Maritime Commission (hereinafter designated
as Commission).  The survey deals with many perplexing problems
affecting the ocean-going shipping industry. It is the Commission's
belief that the survey will be helpful to the Congress in dealing with
problems confronting the industry, and the survey undertakes to
point the way for the development of an adequate and well-balanced
merchant fleet.

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