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Box 7

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

General NMU. Election of 1945, 1943-1944

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Includes broadsides and a sample ballot for the NMU elections.

Dates: 1943-1944

General NMU. Emblem Registration, 1942-1944

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Includes patent application with schematic drawings of three pins, two honoring NMU veterans of foreign wars and one celebrating merchant marines, and correspondence with the Library of Congress in re trademarking the NMU emblems.

Dates: 1942-1944

General NMU. Emblem Registration, 1942-1944

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Includes booklet "General Information Concerning Patents" and a magazine "The American Pilot" that the NMU felt was infringing upon their copyright.

Dates: 1942-1944

General NMU. Grimes vs. Merrill Stevens Dry Dock (Closed Shop), 1947

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Includes motions, statements, and bills of complaint.

Dates: 1947

General NMU. High vs. NMU, 1940

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

In re petty suit against The Pilot (NMU's newsletter)

Dates: 1940

General NMU. Immigration, Expediting the naturalization of alien seamen, 1943-1946

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlet "The Challenge of Our Immigration Laws" by the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, a guide for port agents that lists acceptable immigration quotas.

Dates: 1943-1946

General NMU. Immigration, Silva Case, 1942

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Case of merchant seaman who was born in Portugal, but who lived in the U.S. from 9 months of age.

Dates: 1942

General NMU. Li, Hin vs. U.S. Navigation, 1944

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents

Includes witness statements and a copy of the legal retainer.

Dates: 1944