UNEMPLOYED SEAMEN AT DUNEDIN
DISCHARGE OF EXTRA HANDS FROM HOME LINERS BLAMED Bv TfiLECIIAI'II. I’ Dunedin, July 7 There are about a hundred unemployed seamen in Dunedin This ts partly due to the practice of bringing out Home seamen and discharging them here The Seamen’s Union considers that shipping companies trading between Britain and New Zea land should not be allowed to discharge extra hands in the Dominion, but should be compelled to return them to the port where th ?y joined There is little prospect of vessels being recommissioned to absorb men There have not been so many seamen out of employment in the Dominion since 1890. At a special meeting of the Borough Council to-night, it was decided to. expend the sum of £10.700 in . various works, the main purpose of which is to relieve the unemployment situation.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 252, 8 July 1926, Page 7
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