BRITISH SEAMEN FOR BRITISH SHIPS.
"British Seamen for British Ships", is the title of a little pamphlet that has heen issued in England by the Navy League, showing the enormous increase in the number of foreigners employed in the British mercantile marine. As far back as 1860 there were only 335 lascars employed on British ships; in 1903 the number had grown to. 41,021. Fortyseven years ago thcro were 14,280 foreigners (other than lascars) employed under the rod ensign; in 1903 there were no fewer than 40,39(3; so that in less than half a century the number of persons other than British employed on our merchant ships has increased froin 14,015 to 81,417, and whereas tlio proportion of foreign to every hundred British seamen was 9.03 in 1860, it is.now 40.1, or nearly half. What will the next half-century bring about?
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 4
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