CANADIAN SHIPPING
Jobs Should Be Kept for Own Countrymen TOO MANY CHINESE OTTAWA, June 15. 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 and recommends that 50 per cent, of those employed on Canadian National ships as stewards or firemen be Canadians. Declaring that the Canadian Australian Line employs only eight Canadians in a total of 510 members of crews, members of the committee recommend that the line be requested “to afford Canadian seamen a reasonable degree of employment at the earliest convenience” and urges that the Canadian Pacific Line be obliged to use only Canadian seamen in deck service on the Canada Orient Line. The Canadian Pacific Line had protested that to replace Chinese with whites on Oriental liners would involve such extra cost as to make their operation financially impossible. Of 2033 men in the service 256 are whites.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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