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tigate the employment and wage conditions in oceangoing shipping 

 and, after making such investigation and after appropriate hearings, 

 to incorporate in the contracts authorized under sections 1171-1204: 

 of this title minimum-manning scales and minimum-wage scales and 

 minimum working conditions for all officers and crews employed on 

 all types of vessels receiving an operating-differential subsidy. After 

 such minimum manning and wage scales and working conditions shall 

 have been adopted by the Board no change shall be made therein by 

 the Board except upon public notice of the hearing to be had, and a 

 hearing by the Board of all interested parties, under such rules as the 

 Board shall prescribe. The duly elected representatives of the or- 

 ganizations certified as the proper collective bargaining agencies shall 

 have the right to represent the employees who are members of their 

 organizations at any such hearings. Every contractor receiving an 

 operating-differential subsidy shall post and keep posted in a con- 

 spicuous place on each such vessel operated by such contractor a 

 printed copy of the minimum manning and wa^e scales and working 

 conditions prescribed by his contract and applicable to such vessel: 

 Provided, however, That any increase in the operating expenses of the 

 subsidized vessel occasioned by any change in the wage or manning 

 scales or working conditions as provided in this section shall be added 

 to the operating-differential subsidy previously authorized for the 

 vessel. 



(b) Subsidy contracts; provisions relative to officers and crew. 



Every contract executed under authority of sections 1171-1204 of 

 this title shall require — 



(1) Insofar as is practicable, officers' living quarters shall be 

 kept separate and apart from those furnished for members of the 

 crew; 



(2) Licensed officers and unlicensed members of the crew shall be 

 entitled to make complaints or recommendations to the Secretary of 

 Commerce providing they file such complaint or recommendation 

 directly with the Secretary or with their immediate superior officer 

 who shall be required to forward such complaint or recommendation 

 with his remarks to the Secretary or with the authorized 

 representatives of the respective collective bargaining agencies ; 



(3) Licensed officers who are members of the United States Naval 

 Reserve shall wear on their uniforms such special distinguishing 

 insignia as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy; officers 

 being those men serving under licenses issued by the Bureau of 

 Marine Inspection and Navigation or the Coast Guard; 



(4) The uniform stripes, decoration, or other insignia shall be 

 of gold braid or woven gold or silver material, to be worn by officers, 

 and no member of the ship's crew other than licensed officers shall 

 be allowed to wear any uniform with such officer's identifying 

 insignia ; 



(5) No discrimination shall be practiced against licensed officers, 

 who are otherwise qualified, because of their failure to qualify as 

 members of the United States Naval Reserve. 



