A SEAMAN'S AMBITION
TO GET A JOB ASHORE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 6. (Received December 6, at 9.35 a.m.) In the course of his judgment in the Merchant Service Guild case Mr Justice Higgins declared that one witness had said that the ambition of seamen was to get a job ashore, and one could hardly wonder at such ambition. Low wages and homeless, wandering conditions were rapidly tending to deplete the British merchant service of Britishers and to (ill our ships with foreigners. Nor were there wanting gloomy prophecies of the effect of this depletion on the naval power of the Empire.
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Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 6
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103A SEAMAN'S AMBITION Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 6
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