IN SORE STRAITS.
MARINE OFFICERS IDLE
LONDON, August 14
At least two ships are entirely manned on deck by certificated officers and a considerable number of officers are signed on in the forecastle of other ships, eays the report of the Merchant Navy Federation, revealing the disastrous effect of the depression on shipping. There is acute distress, the report states, among members of the federation in the United Kingdom, where 1048 captains, navigating and engineer officers are unemployed. The position in the Dominions is equally serious where, in addition, there are large numbers of non-federa-tion men unemployed.
One captain, who wae decorated for war service, is earning a few shillings a week scene-shifting and selling newspapers; others are doing window-clean-ing, hotel and restaurant waiting, and door-to-door canvassing. Several are living in homes for the destitute, and walking the of London every day, diligently seeking employment. One officer recently collapsed exhausted near St. Paul's Cathedral.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 194, 18 August 1931, Page 7
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