MEN AND SHIPS.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14350, 9 May 1912, Page 8

MEN AND SHIPS.

In their annual report tbo S_a_or|a|3 : f Shipowners' {society touch upon ai lM*i tVi'i points ot prime impoitanco to ehi|,QTOßli I V>nd oi tbeso is the imperative seed of &niuH.i effort to mcroaso tbo uupply of tailon fat 1 tbo mercantile marine. It is urged thai RJ* g prentices should be employed upoa «• tttt, _ much larger scald than at present, Wai|'l •*ii3ilc''s tho supply of Jtintish a«ia»<a'iJS y i greatly and rapidly increased, ehipbta(Bt will bo constantly faced with tbe difiwuliy U, efficiently manning iheir vo eels." vory much tho some eaccl wero. WMtjftr"' used by Mr Hoyden, tho President i&Wf Chamber of Shipping, when La re£tftKthai wo are faced with a great incajwj'.jft tonn&go, and no serioua effort is ccncastilliljf' being- nisde by shipowners to train they require. Mr Hoyden said bo vicwod-lis situation with misgiving. So, wo imtjttk; dooa the Shipping"-"edsration. A great tor in connection with tho seamen's "trtfrjt ot last summer was -that, despito liance at is placed upon foreign ond A*s*BtH Fcaraen there waa a desrth ot oi-afJaMfSj labour which left tho cards entire'.j- in-wig hands of the Sailors' Union. ■'%m How far, as an incidental effect of. fl» Eg coal striko, tho progress of merchant" i&ia; IS building bos boon retardod is not qiuta cJ*B (Bays tho Lends- "Shipping Gaxotlo")., BSf B tbe fact that expenses havo incrcafedJl-O-M Kuredly noU to be loat eight of. Jn <PslTl| direction the shipowner ia paybn* His labour, his coal—evcrvtbujir, ia tnijt'itl' tho bedit aide of tho account—l« tttore-'ctiS&'E Wif-h freights may counterbalance sideratioiis for tho prw«nt, brt vthtgi-*'{*H reaction oomos—wh«n *hiri« aro too and fro'shta hive a. v-e-iltcnin'? tfudon4 t; T| what is to ha-pen? Iho wnniintfs, of'flt'B Sunderland Slv'po-mjeri" Society Men roughly ju'-tifr'-d. Thcrf> »re ; no vcrr rfirpß ■-»«"»n». po»«iblr, of or«ffhu'ldi&B| But thero aro means of iruardia7 i &tthvs43'l| ditions in which wo shall f<nd o»r»*!if*i *» §8 moro ships and with relatively' fowef."Kfc>''K