The Halcyon

BYERS, District Judge.

The seventeen libelants are Greek seamen who signed on a tramp steamship of Panamanian registry on December 6, 1939, at Piraeus, Greece, for a round voyage to that place. En route from Gibraltar to Galveston, Texas, the vessel had to put in to Bermuda for bunkers, her coal supply having run low. At that place, they insisted upon an increase in wages, which was granted in order to bring the ship to this port.

There is no treaty between this country and-the Republic of Panama, and so the Consul of the latter would have no status in this cause, there being no showing of…