SAILORS’ CONDITIONS.
HIGH DEATH RATE CRITICISED. .ucd Freae Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Frees Association.) LONDON, Jan. 10. Mr. Ernest Bevin, secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, and officials of the marine section of the union have sharply criticised seamen’s working conditions as responsible for the highest death rate of any class of workers. The legal minimum space per sailor is 120 cubic feet. The lockers fitting reduce this to 88 cubic feet. A workhouse inmate has 440 cubic feet, and a convict 800 cubic feet. Offiicial figures show that the death rate of sailors is more serious than that of miners-, but they do not indicate the.full_ difference, because -sick sailors seeking jobs ashore are not classed as mariners when they die.
Mr. James Henson declares that seamen’s mortality is 48.8 per cent, and their accident death rate 430 per cent, above the average for their age; 221 sailors die of tuberculosis compared with every 112 miners.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5
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