LINER STEWARDS’ STRIKE
PASSENGERS REFUSE TO LEAVE SHIP
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LIVERPOOL, June 8. More than 300 passengers on board the Cunard liner, Ascania, had refused the company’s order to leave the ship this morning, the “Daily Herald” reported. Passengers, all tourist class, have been on board since May 31, when the stewards, protesting ‘ they were understaffed, walked off. It was this dispute which spread at the week-end, until it now involves five transAtlantic liners.
The Ascania passengers held a protest meeting yesterday when the company told them to leave the ship.
They would be offered alternative passages or a fare refund, but would have to find and pay for their own transport back to their homes in Britain. the “Daily Herald” said Fewer than 75 accepted the offer. More than 100 were emigrants for Canada who had sold up their homes.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27678, 7 June 1955, Page 11
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