MERCHANT SHIPPING
THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION. LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND. Reuter’s Tclooram. LONDON, February 25. The House of Lords passed the second reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill, giving effect to a number of draft conventions of the Washington Labour Conference, of 1920, laying down a. minimum age for the employment of trimmers and stokers, and compensating seamen who lose employment through the foundering of their ships. Lord Merrivalo urged that legislative effect should not be given to the convention until other signatories to the convention had taion similar action.
Viscount Peel promised to convey the suggestion to the Board of Trade.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 7
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100MERCHANT SHIPPING New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 7
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