SS FEDERAL COMMEROE

MATTER OF SS. FEDERAL COMMERCE In FINE Proceedings NOR-83 Decided by Board June 5, 1959 Fine—Section 256 of 1952 act—No liability where payoff and discharge did not terminate employment with ship but merely transferred employee relation- ship to new owner. No fine will lie under section 256 of the 1952 act against ship's former owner for having paid off and discharged an alien crewman concomitant with lat- ter's re-signing ship's articles with new employer. "Pay off" within mean- ing of section 256 does not occur when there has been no break in the con- tinuity of the crewman's service on the…