SEAMEN OF THE ALLIES

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 20 August 1917, Page 7

SEAMEN OF THE ALLIES

GREAT CONFERENCE IN LONDON

BOYCOTT OF GERMANY AFTER.

THE WAR.

LONDON, 17th August. A Seamen's Conference, representing the Allies and most of the neutral countries, has opened in London. Mr. Havelock Wilson (secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen's Vmon), who is presiding, announced that the, delegates represented all sections of the maritime world in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada; the West Indies, France, Italy, llussia, Belgium, Norvvaj-, Sweden, and Denmark. He said that the conference pro* posed to consider the attitude to be adopted towards Germany after the war, iii view of the latter's submarine atrocities. He explained that it was not intended to discuss the origins of the war, but neutrals were entitled to express uri opinion on German methods of wnr. Neutrals, equally with the Allies, .hail suffered by the enemy's barbarities. "W«s are not calling on the Governments to t^ #<s!4«jfl,l( tis s»id. "Tha. swrnm are b«tt«r able to look after t-hemgelve*."

He added that the seamen were still undaunted. German barbarism had not vet delayed the sailing of a single ship by five minutes. He also believed that the seamen would induce the wharf labourers and transport workers to assist in a German boycott after the war. He suggested that if other seafarers refused to work with Germans they would be materially punishing the German shipowners. An international commission should enquire into the submarine murders, and punish the commanders, crews, and authorities according to their guilt.