COLOURED SAILORS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 113, 9 November 1910, Page 7

COLOURED SAILORS.

A STATEMENT. P. AND 0. COMPANY'S POINT OF VIEW. SOBER MEN, AMENABLE TO DISCIPLINE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 9, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The agents of the Peninsular and Oiiental Steam Navigation Company have prepared a statement with reference to the employment of coloured crews. They point out that the coloured men are British subjects, first-class seamen and boatmen, and strictly sober and amenable to discipline. They are ongaged under the supervision of the Indian Government and receive full pay from the time they leave until they are returning to India. The space allotted tn each man is the same as that allotted to Englishmen. The agents therefore desire to know in what manner does the employment of coloured British subjects aboard a ship compete with Australian and New Zealand seamen or wa^er-side workers. If coloured seamen were dispensed with, how many Australian and New Zealandborn men would be available to man the P and O. mail steamers. They urge that Parliamentarians should ask them selves whether they should lend themselves to fomenting objection against any section of the King's Indian subjects.