Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy: Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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additional Admiral BADGER Admiral BRAISTED Admiral COONTZ Admiral EARLE Admiral GRIFFIN Admiral McGOWAN Admiral PARKS Admiral TAYLOR amount appropriation Army aviation BARNETT barracks battle cruisers battleships bill Board boats BRITTEN BROWNING building Bureau Bureau of Navigation BUTLER capital ships Capt cent CHAIRMAN Commander BRYAN committee construction contract contractor cost crane destroyers Eagle boats EBERLE enlisted equipment estimate expenses fiscal fleet full commission grade guns Hampton Roads HICKS hospital increase July June KELLEY Key West labor LANING large number lieutenant machine Mare Island Marine Corps months Naval Academy naval district navy yard necessary Norfolk officers OLIVER operation ordnance permanent Philadelphia Philadelphia Navy Yard pier present rear admirals receiving ship recommended repair reserve Secretary DANIELS statement STEELE storage submarine TAUSSIG temporary tion torpedo Total training station vessels Yards and Docks York
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Page 62 - That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours work with overtime rates to be paid for at not less than time and one-half for all hours work in excess of eight hours...
Page 802 - That the funds received from such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants: and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid....
Page 62 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day upon such work...
Page 62 - ... for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which he shall be required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work...
Page 828 - If at any time before the construction authorized by this Act shall have been contracted for there shall have been established, with the co-operation of the United States of America, an international tribunal or tribunals competent to secure peaceful determinations of all international disputes, and which shall render unnecessary the maintenance of competitive armaments, then and in that case such naval expenditures as may be inconsistent with the engagements made in the establishment...
Page 613 - Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except two actuaries and the following : One at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,000, and two at $1,800 each.
Page 833 - Navy has submitted to your committees for authorization that part of the program which covers the building plans of the next three years. These plans have been prepared along the lines and in accordance with the policy which the Congress established, not under the exceptional conditions of the war, but with the intention of adhering to a definite method of development for the Navy. I earnestly recommend the uninterrupted pursuit of that policy. It would clearly be unwise for us to attempt to adjust...
Page 794 - Reserve, shall be entitled, upon the termination of his appointment as a commissioned officer in the reserve, to revert to his former status as a warrant officer in the Navy or Marine Corps, or as a pay clerk in the Marine Corps, and shall be entitled to count all active reserve service for purposes of longevity pay and retirement.
Page 735 - Navy, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be four per centum of the total authorized enlisted strength of the active list, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, prisoners undergoing sentence of discharge, enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, and the Flying Corps...
Page 242 - Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen's rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems...