LABOUR WORLD.
SAILORS’ DEATH RATE. HIGHEST OF ANY CLASS OF WORKER. LONDON, Jan. 11. Ernest Bevin (Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union) and officials of tlie marine section thereof, sharply criticised the seamen’s working conations as responsible for the highest death-rate in any class of workers. The legal minimum space per sailor is 120 cubic feet. Lockers aud fittings reduee this to eighty-eiglit. A workhouse inmate gets 440 and a. convict 800. Official figures showing that sailors’ death-rate is more serious than min ors, do not indicate the full difference because sick sailors seeking jobs ashore are not classed as mariners when they die. James Hensen declares seamen’s mortality is 48.8 per centum and accident death rate 43.0 per centum above the average. 221 sailors die of tuberculosis compared with 112 miners.
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Grey River Argus, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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