CANADIAN SEAMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 9

CANADIAN SEAMEN

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOY-

MEN!

COMMITTEE’S REVELATIONS

OTTAWA. June 15,

The report of the House of Commons Committee on Industrial and Foreign Relations urges greater employment of Canadians on steamers operated by' the Government or under Government subsidies. It recommends that 50 per cent, of those employed on Canadian National ships as stewards and firemen he Canadians, declaring that the Canadian-Aus-tralian Line employs only eight Canadians in a crew of 510. The committee recommends that the line be requested ‘‘to afford Canadian seamen a reasonable degree of employment at its earliest convenience,” and urges that the Canadian Pacific be obliged to use only Canadian seamen in deck services on the Canada-Orient Lino. The Canadian Pacific Line has pro tested that, to replace Chinese with whites on the Oriental liners-, would involve such extra cost ns to make their operation financially impossible. Of the 2033 men in the service, 265 are whites.