STILL NO SETTLEMENT
Itiis possible that an effort will be made to-day to bring the parties to the shipping dispute together again. In tha meanwhile there are no further developments. A meeting of the Seamen's Union is being held this afternoon.
Respecting the statement of the secertary of the Merchant Service Guild (Captain Macindoe) regarding the causes leading up to the loss of'the Penguin, Mr. W. T. Young, general secretary of the Seamen's Union, stated to a reporter that it was not intended to convey the impression that that vessel was lost through the want of an efficient look-out. The disaster was quoted merely to show how easy it was to meet with accident at sea and the loss of life. In this- case some 75 lives were sacrificed, notwithstanding that there was an efficient, lookout, with a man at the wheel and an officer and the master on the bridge, and with a light astern, one on each counter,, and one on the bow. If such a disaster could happen under these circumstances^ how much easier was it for one to occur with only two men on deck in the ship —the officer and the'man at the wheel.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 8
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199STILL NO SETTLEMENT Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 8
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