Jones v. United States

ROSE, District Judge.

The libelants on the 31st of January, 1922, signed shipping articles by which they undertook to serve in various capacities on the Shipping Board steamship Coelleda for a-voyage or voyages during a length of time not exceeding twelve months in all. When the articles were signed, the Shipping Board contemplated promulgating a new and lower wage scale, and there was inserted in the articles a proviso to the effect that—

“The wages herein set forth are subject to change in accordance with the new wage scale of the United States Shipping Board to be adopted February 6, 1922.”

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