GERMAN CREWS’ STRIKE
CLAIM FOR BRITISH RATES OF PAY. (Rec. January 17, 1.25 a..m.) London, January 15. Five German crews totalling 100 struck at Cardiff in response to a message from the London strike ocmmittee. calling on all German seamen in British ports to strike unless the owners were prepared to give them the British seamen’s rate of wages in British currency. A crew sent fro™ Germany to man a steamer at Cardiff which had been sold to a German company refused to travel from London to Newport, where the ship was berthed, until the owners had complied w*th the strike committee’s or-der.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The German crew of the German cargo steamer Hanover struck at Sydney demanding English rates of pay to be paid in English currency The crew asserted that since they left Hamburg they had. been working for a rate not much in excess of five shillings monthly in English currency.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 7
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154GERMAN CREWS’ STRIKE Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 7
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