CANADIAN SEAMEN.
MORE EMPLOYMENT URGEDLINES IN PACIFIC TRADE. (United Press Association —Copyright.) OTTAWA, June 15. The report of the House of Commons Committee on industrial and foreign relations urges greater employment of Canadians on steamers operated by the Government subsidies. It recommends that 50 per cent, of those employed on Canadian national ships as stewards and firemen be Canadians, declaring that the Canadian-Australian line employs onlv eight Canadians in a crew of 150. Members of the committee recommends that the line bo requested "to afford Canadian seamen a reasonable degree of employment at its earliest convenience," and urged that the Canadian Pacific Line be obliged to use only Canadian seamen in the deck services on the Canadian-Orient Line. The Canadian Pacific had protested that to replace Chinese with whites on the Oriental liners would involve such extra cost as to make the operation financially impossible. Of 2033 men in the services 265 are whites.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 210, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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