SEAMEN REFUSE DUTY
PRESENT NUMEROUS EXCUSES,
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ■ (R«c. August 21, 8.40 p.m.) „. . Sydney, August 21. bisteen members of the Wyandotte's crew were charged with refusing to obey lawful commands to proceed to seaV The'defendants alloge that the Wyandotte has .been sold to the Union Company since the articles were signed, and the ship was' chartered to carry meat from Brisbane to San Francisco for the Meat Trust, contrary to the public policy. Further, owiug to tho war, there were reasonable grounds for believing there wero German warships in the Pacifio, and English vessels would therefore be unsafe; also that the charter was not a bona fide , one, that the ship was unseaworthy, and the present master had no authority over the crew. The Wyandotte is a vessel of 4204 tons, and is owned by the British and Argentine Steam Navigation' Company.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2235, 22 August 1914, Page 9
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143SEAMEN REFUSE DUTY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2235, 22 August 1914, Page 9
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