SHIPPING HOLD-UP
Sir,—“Cornubia” is evidently one of those men who would say "Let them starve.” He does not say anything about the causes which led the seamen to strike; he is not concerned with the small pay which they get; he is not .concerned with the conditions under which stokers and firemen live, but when these men who are suffering so much take the only action which is left open to them, he, in fact, exclaims: “Let them starve.” Will “Cornubia” tell me what would happen to men who, while groaning under the heels of the capitalists’ class, strike, but because of lack of money they ultimately have to "give in”? Does “Cornubia” think such men should be branded and debarred from obtaining employment again? It is all very well to adopt the “Let them starve” policy, but the shipping companies have more sense than to do this. It would do “Cornubia” good to work in a stokehold for six months, or to try and maintain his wife and family on the wages paid to a seamen of one ot the boats sailing under English articles—l am, etc., W. BRADFORD, Wellington, January 12.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 93, 14 January 1926, Page 8
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193SHIPPING HOLD-UP Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 93, 14 January 1926, Page 8
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