SEAMEN UNEASY
' SHORTER HOURS WANTED. NEGOTIATIONS TO PRECEDE A STRIKE. , - (Reed-Red August 15, 5.5 p.m.) BRUSSELS, August 13. The International Seamen's Conference adopted the Belgian delegation's motion in favour of a general strike of seamen with the object of obtaining .an eight-hour day and a forty-eight-*hour week, with a French amendment in favour of submitting the proposal to a commission composed equally ol shipowners and seamen before launching the strike movement. , The motion tnd amendment were practically unanimously agreed to.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10669, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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