<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Merchant Seamen's Rights: A Call to Action</dc:title><dc:date>1944-12-13</dc:date><dc:creator>unknown</dc:creator><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:identifier>http://congressarchives.org/record/CAC_CC_047_1_5_84_0014</dc:identifier><dc:description>The document is from B. Paradiso, representing merchant seamen, to an honorable person, likely a government official. The document expresses interest in a seamen's bill that would provide better rights and criticizes Admiral Lamp for opposing the bill. The writer asks what the official is doing to support the bill and inquires about their stance on the principles of the bill.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>