SAFETY AT SEA
Seamen Charge Owners With Negligence THE AMERICAN TROUBLE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 21. Two hundred striking seamen, some of whom are involved in mutiny charges which are not yet pressed, though the men lost their jobs, appealed to-day for arbitration of their case. They also urged the tightening of the Safety at Sea laws.
Several men testified to almost unbelievable incidents of inefficiency and careless practices by ship operators. They told of passenger vessels carrying life boats with holes in them, and of others that could not be budged from their moorings. * In one case a vessel with nine lifeboats had only eight licensed seamen aboard. Veterans of the Morro Castle tragedy attributed the heavy loss of life to the presence of inexperienced seamen carrying forged credentials. They added that the loss of life in the Mohawk tragedy was largely caused by lifeboats being frozen to the deck. Evidence was presented in answer to charges of sabotage by radicals responsible for recent sea disasters.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 8
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