BRITISH VERSUS FOREIGN SEAMEN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12480, 17 April 1906, Page 9

BRITISH VERSUS FOREIGN SEAMEN.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF BOY SAILORS.

At the annual banquet of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce, held lost month. Sir Alfred la. Jon-c-s. K.C.M.G.. in surmiittin"? ihe toast of " The Chamber," aaid. with respect to the employment of British senmen, that no one wou!d be better plensed tt> see none other than British sailors employed

on British ships, but there was not a sufficiency of fcnti.h W-l_ l8) _„ d officerwere becoming Jess. His Company found » great difficulty on the particular point. In Javerpoo. they tried to grapple with the problem by taking boys .olf the »treets and training them a_ ovilors. They oouki da the. s-u-ei at Swansea. If they started ft bailors Training Home at Swansea, he wou.d jjive _SOO in contributions of £100 a ? e " i™ five years. Such a Home to dual 7 nl°X boys * nnu » ll . «>nld be mainrfained tor £3000 a year. Unless something* were dont> to get those boys for the t*>a, they would go to waste, and the country woolbo without the Britis-h saiior. The foreign sailor was not a bad kind of s&Lor, but he would rather have Bntishcra. for the foreigner would not be as good for him in -time of war as in times of peace. Then, too, he did not think wo should have alien pilots. Before the proceedings terminated, Sir Griffith Thomas anno_nc«_ that, in addition to the £500 conditio___y offered by Sir Alfred Jones towards ti» foundation of a Boys' Home for the training of seamen at Swansea, a lady had promised £500, Messrs Topham, Jones and Roilton £500, the Esrl of Jersey £500 a**d he h'moelf would give £500. All oh Krnilar conditions to those mentioned by Sir Alfred Jones in his speecn.