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SOVIET SEAMEN

WITHDRAWING FROM UNIONISM 25,01)0 UNEMPLOYED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LOTTuuN", October 21. Tho Geneva correspondent of the ‘Daily Mail’ says that the International Labor Oflico publishes striking details of distress among the Russian seamen. Tu •only-live thousand seamen unionists are unemployed out of 156,000 members. Tho withdrawals exceed the afluiatioas by 50 per cent., and tho wages are barely 70 per cent, of the pre-war level, averaging 64s monthly. A proposal requesting the Central Committee to demand increased wages was rejected as an attempt to curry favor with the masses. The delegates pointed out that mi eight-hour day does not exist in tho Russian ships owing to the absence of proper accommodation, also because most of the seamen prefer long hours to augment their totally inadequate wages.—A. ami N.Z. ami ‘Sun’ Cable.

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Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5

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SOVIET SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5

SOVIET SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5