CANADIAN SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9

CANADIAN SHIPPING

EMPLOYMENT OF CANADIANS COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS. Preu Association —By Telegraph—Copyright OTTAWA, June 15. (Received June 16, at 1 p.m.) The report of the House of Commons Committee on Industrial and Foreign Relations urges greater employment of Canadians on steamers operated by the Government or under Government subsidies. It recommends that 50 per cent, of those employed on Canadian National ships as stewards and firemen be Canadians, declaring that the Cana-dian-Australian Line employs only eight Canadians in a crew of 610. The committee recommends that the line be requested “ to afford Canadian seamen a reasonable of employment at its earliest convenience,” and urges that the Canadian Pacific be obliged to use only Canadian seamen in deck services on the Canada-Orient Line. The Canadian Pacific has protested that, to replace Chinese with whites on the Oriental liners would involve such extra cosfl as to make their operation financially impossible. Of the 2,033 men in the service, 265 are whites.