Is it not a fact that when the bill was passed about 1914 or 1915. certain treaties that were then in existence. providing for the arrest of seamen. were canceled under authority of that law. and in order to encourage an increase in wages and that sort of thing. under the La Follette Seamans Act. there was rather encouraged desertions for a period. with the idea that there would be reshipment? We did not have any merchant marine at that time to amount to anything. The idea was that there would be reshipment at an increased wage. and there was a permissive period of 60 days within which they might reship. after which they could be deported to the country from which they came. That law is on the statute books now. but the trouble is you cannot get them back to the country to which they should be deported.
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