DEATHS OF SEAMEN
■-•; WORKING CONDITIONS , .CRITICISED . .:' . ,■ .:. United Serrics. ■ ' (Eeceived 12tli January, 2 p.m.) ■■-'- '■::"'■ ■''■■'."':''•;.'LC)N.l>pN,'lith January.'; ' Mr.. Ernest Bevin, secretary of the ■Transport. Workers' Union, and officials of the marine, section .of the union, i sharply criticiso the,' seamen's working cbnditibni r as.being,responsible for the highest. v \cleath ..'rate ,oi, any. ; class, 'of WorKei'sT,.' Th,o^legal niinimum. space per sailor is 120 cubic feet, but locker Sittings reduce this to 88 cubic feet. A workhouse. inmate gets 440 cubic feet and a. convict 800. Official figures show. that sailors' death rate is moro serious than those- of.miners, but dp not indicate; the full difference, bec&use ,sick, .sailors.--s.eeking--jobs, ashore, are 'notj classed'.,as-mariners-.wnen they-.die. '..'.Mr.' James fienspn. declares that seamen's mortality'; is .48.8 per centum, whil'p- the accident, .death rate is 430 per. centum;, above the average, age. Every year 221 sailors die of tuberculosis compared ..to every 112 miners.,; ■
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 11
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146DEATHS OF SEAMEN Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 11
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