UNEMPLOYED SEAMEN.
OUT OF WORK MASTERS. UNEMPLOYED MATES. THIRTY THOUSAND IDLE. (By Cable.—.Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 2. Two thousand sea captains and mates are unemployed in Liverpool. Many have been ashore for two or three years. Their savings are exhausted, and they arc evicting in a state of semi-starvation. Thirty thousand other ratings are in a similar plight. The Marine .Service Association instances captains trimming lamps. Sixty ;»re hawking in Liverpool streets. ■ Scores of officers are unemployed or casually earning the most meagre pittances, gladly going as able seamen. Never in the history of British shipping have conditions been so -bs.d.— ("Sun")
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 5
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