Villigas v. United States

GAR YIN, District Judge.

The steamship Berwyn was wrecked and sunk in the Arabian Sea June 8, 1920. The crew were taken to Alexandria, and were sent on to New York by the American consul, on the Dakotan, without their captain, arriving July 9, 1920. When they arrived, they at once went to the Straehan Shipping Company, managers for the United States Shipping Board, the owner of the Berwyn, and were given $20 each, upon their demand for wages in full. A day or two later, most of them were given $20 more each, but their full wages were refused on the ground that they could produce no papers…