Schultz v. Waterfront Commission

Petitioner challenges the determination of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor which denied his application to be included in the longshoremen’s register. In 1954 petitioner, who had been working on the docks as a longshoreman, was denied registration as a longshoreman. The reason was that for a nine-year period he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted for various forms of larceny. Upon this refusal he obtained work as a cooper on the docks, which lasted until 1958 when coopers became subject to respondent’s jurisdiction and he was again excluded. In this period he was arrested…