John R. Peterson v. S.S. Wahcondah and Ahern Shipping Company, Ltd. And Miami Marine Agency, Inc.

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Except for the Master of the vessel, who is not a party to these proceedings, the libelants, appellants, are all of the officers and crew of the “SS WAHCON-DAH” at the time of its arrival at the Port of New Orleans with a cargo of two thousand long tons of bulk sugar on or about June 18, 1962. The libelants’ wages had last been paid on approximately May 1, 1962. After their arrival in New Orleans, and about two weeks after the sugar had been discharged from the vessel, the libelants demanded of the Master that they be paid the wages due them as of that time, 1 but the…