AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN
POSITION OF UNION SECRETARY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, February 29. The local branch of the Seamen’s Union is demanding the “ recall ” of J. Keenan, the general secretary of the Seamen’s Union, who is blamed for the present unsatisfactory condition of the seamen’s,organisation, following the recent shipping strike. R. Taylor, who visited Sydney in connection with the strike, declared that “ never before had he known the necessity for officials of a union to have escorts to protect them from the anger of hungry and deserted seamen.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22277, 2 March 1936, Page 9
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87AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 22277, 2 March 1936, Page 9
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