CHINESE SEAMEN.
EMPLOYMENT ON BRITISH SHIPS.
STATEMENTS IN THE COMMONS
By Telegraph.—Press Association.Copyright.
(Received March 5, 11.30 p.m.)
London, March 5. In. the House of Commons Mr. Charles Fcnwick (Parliamentary Secretary to the Trades Union Congress) moved that a Select Com tee be appointed to inquire whether the Merchant Shipping Act is sufficient to enable the Board of Trade to prevent abus -..j arising out of the employment of Chinese in the British mercantile marine. Mr. H. E. Kearley (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) admitted that the employment of Chinese had increased, and the marine superintendents believed that the recent legislation was likely to accelerate that tendency. The Board of Trade would nip in the bud abuses threatening to defeat the objects of the Act. The motion was then withdrawn.
The engagement last week of 38 Chinese firemen and seamen for a (steamship in the West India Dock led to a meeting under the auspices of the National Seamen's i> v(1 Firemen's Union vigorously protesting, and urging the Government to prevent the wholesale importation of Chinese for British ships at reduced wages'.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13691, 6 March 1908, Page 5
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