CHINESE SEAMEN.
BETTER TREATMENT URGED. CHINESE NATIONALIST PARTY: Mr. Samuel Wong, chairman of th« Chinese Nationalist Party in Sydn6y. speaking recently at a social gathering to the Chinese seamen members of the organisation, said that officials' of the Chinese Seamen's Union had declared that thoy could stop all war if they worked in conjunction with the InitWbational Seamen's Union. lie did not know how the officials of the union intended to achieve that object, but when a" body of men held such humanitarian, and even Christian, ideals, it was timi that the shipping companies gave them better treatment.' Both Chinese seamen and the me;; work: ing in European houses in Hongkong, and Shapghai, continued Mr. Wong, objected very strongly to being called "boy," ami. it seemed ridiculous to call a grown-up man by such, a term. He suggested thai the shipping companies trading between the East a.nd Australia should request the captains of vessels to make a change, and address the men as stewards if thoy happened to be stewards, and so on.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 14
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