ible.

The employers are free to assign monthly checkers to any work covered by

this agreement.

Penalties. Generally, the conditions under which penalties are paid are similar to those in the longshoremen's agreement.

Joint Checkers Committee.- This committee is similar in its composition and purposes to the Joint Port Labor Relations Committee provided for in the longshoremen's agreement. Its function is to administer the checkers' agreement

and to exercise primary authority in the adjustment of disputes.

STEVEDORING

The Everett Stevedoring Company, 1006 Hewitt Avenue, is the only contract stevedore located in Everett. However, many of the stevedore companies located in Seattle also serve other Puget Sound ports. A reference list of Seattle stevedore contractors is contained in the Bellingham section, page 140.

Piers, wharves, and landings at the Port of Everett are described in this report under 46 separate map reference numbers. Nearly half of the total waterfront facilities listed are along the shore facing natural deep water in Port Gardner and in the 30-foot channel of East Waterway. Southwest of the city of Everett, a distance of almost 2 miles and facing the waters of the open bay, there is an oil pier which is also included in the survey. The deep water section of the port, fronting the main portion of the city, supports seven of the referenced docks, and twelve are situated on East Waterway. The remaining docks face on the dike protected shallow-draft channel leading to the Snohomish River and within the river itself. Eight of the facilities are reached from the lower section of the 8-foot dredged channel to the settling basin, five are along the continuation of the channel from the settling basin to its upper limit near Preston Point, and thirteen are on the left bank of the natural channel in the Snohomish River. An auto ferry terminal, small boat docks, and a government oil pier, all at Mukilteo, were not considered for inclusion in this report.

Generally, the docks are of open timber piles with timber decks built out from multiple-step bulkheads; there are other solid fill types constructed of timber sheet piling. A few are timber railroad trestles serving as log dumps, and some are timber mooring floats. Vessel access to all docks on Port Gardner and East Waterway is directly from deep water in the open bay, and the sole access to the other docks is through a dredged channel extending northward to the Snohomish River from a point near the entrance to East Waterway.

At the foot of Wall Street, the Port of Everett operates Pier No. 1 (P.W.D. Ref. No. 5) as a public general cargo facility for ocean vessels.

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891- by 122-foot pier has a 24,000-square-foot transit shed, wharfside railroad tracks, access roadways for motortrucks, and a paved open storage area for heavy cargo. Berthing is available along the outer ends of both sides; full berthing is restricted because of needed repairs and limited water depths. Cargo is generally handled entirely by ship's gear, although the pier operators maintain fork-lift trucks and other mobile equipment for handling cargo to and from shipside.

The Everett Port Commission, operating under the name of the Port of Everett, is developing other sites for expansion of industrial and port facilities. One of these is the Fourteenth Street Port Fill, or Dock, embracing an area of about 40 acres of hydraulic fill retained by timber bulkheads. The fill has a frontage of about 800 feet facing the 8-foot channel from the bay. At this point, the channel has been enlarged by dredging a settling basin to a depth of 12 feet, 700 feet in width, and 1,200 feet in length, which serves as a convenient turning basin for tugs and barges. At P.W.D. Ref. No. 28, the H. 0. Seiffert Company operates a mechanized sand and gravel unloading wharf in connection with its ready-mix concrete plant ashore. On the south side of the fill, the Chase Sea Food Company receives seafood over the port-owned wharf (P.W.D. Ref. No. 24) for its processing plant in rear. The seaward continuation of this wharf is operated by the Port of Everett as a public mooring wharf (P.W.D. Ref. No. 25) for commercial fishing vessels, the operators of which have an assigned space in the Net Warehouse on the wharf. Highway trucks have access to wharf aprons for servicing fish boats. Floating moorings in connection with the main wharf provide space for yachts and commercial and sport fishing vessels. The largest commercial marine railway in the port, capacity 400 tons, extends from the bulkhead between 14th and 15th Streets extended (P.W.D. Ref. No. 26).

Pier No. 1, Port of Everett general cargo pier (right); Pier No. 2, operated by Everett Fish Co. and American Tug Boat Co. (center); and Pier No. 3, operated by New England Fish Co. (left) on Port Gardner,

Port of Everett's 14th Street Dock, for fishing boats and commercial and recreational craft, operated by Port of Everett, Chase Sea Food Co., Fisherman's Boat Shop, and Morris, Inc.