MARCHANT SEAMEN SHORTAGE
DELAY TO WAR ZONE SAILINGS FORESEEN (ißeo. 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 3. "A shortage of merchant seamen threatens within a few weeks to delay sailings to the war zones," said ViceAdmiral Emory Land in a Press interview. He. added that so far ships had kept their sailing schedules with minimum delays, but efficiency and safe operation were jeopardised by the assignment of men to duties above their grades and the employment of a disproportionate number of unskilled ratings without .prior sea experience.
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Evening Star, Issue 25324, 4 November 1944, Page 7
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85MARCHANT SEAMEN SHORTAGE Evening Star, Issue 25324, 4 November 1944, Page 7
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