DUTCH SEAMEN
DISPUTE WITH EMPLOYERS THREAT OF A STRIKE (Received Auzust 29, 9.35 p.m.) ROTTERDAM, A up. 23 A strike of seamen is threatened owing to shipowners' exploitation of sterling exchange. One firm, owing to losses, tried to induce its employees to accept a reduction in wages but the Seamen's Union refused.
Thereupon the firm sold its ships to an English company, rechartered them and manned them with British seamen, as it is cheaper to pay British seamen in sterling than Dutchmen in florins. The Dutch Seamen's Union now threatens to call a strike of all Rotterdam seamen unless the firm reverts to the former position.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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106DUTCH SEAMEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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