HAVELOCK WILSON'S APPEAL
ECHO OF SEAMEN'S STRIKE
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, February 26. Mr Havelock Wilson has instituted an appeal for help for the dependents of the seamen who were concerned in the recent shipping strike, more especially those who left their ships in dominion ports, resulting in over 6,000 families being deprived of the means of support. Mr Wilson asserts that the strikers in Sydney were assured that funds would bo provided for thenwives and families. Many of these wives and children are still without support. , „ , The Committee of King Georges Fund has given £4,000 and the Seamen’s Union £I,OOO.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 5
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