BRITISH SEAMEN
PROPOSAL FOR NEW UNION
RIDICULE BY HAVELOCK WILSON
ilij MlHe.tr!<• Telegraph.-copy r'tn (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)
LONDON. Dec. ,"C
Mr Havelock-Wilson ridicules the report from Australia in connection- v. <M: Walsh's and Lyddal's optiiiifsiTc anti.i patterns regarding the propot.vi.l Brh.sh Seamen's Onion. Their claim thai the union already consists of nearly <-iJu'o members at Tilbury is absurd, because residential seamen' do not exceed WO and not one . f them is enrolled in the new union. Jn any case the union is both numerically and financially impos sible, ''because our union already Liners the interests of 100.000 British seamen. firemen, cooks, and stewards, with funds aggregating £.300.000. besides £400,000 to their credit in the national health insurance fund. So far from the overseas strike prejudicing this union, 20.000 joii. -d in 102 r i. We .on trihuted £IO,OOO to distressed dependents of oversens strikers, while the appeal to Walsh for assistance remained unanswered.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1925, Page 5
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154BRITISH SEAMEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1925, Page 5
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