CANADIAN SHIPPING
COMMITTEE’S REPORT EMPLOYMENT OF WHITES OTTAWA, June 15. The report of the House of Commons Committee on industrial and foreign relations urges a grease• employment of Canadians on steamers oper ated by the Government, or under Government subsidies. It recommends that 50 per cent, of those employed on the Canadian national ships as stew- . ards and firemen be Canadians, declaring that the Canadian and Australian Line employs only eight Canadians in the 510 crew members. The committee recommends that the line be requested “to afford Canadiin seamen a . reasonable degree of employment at the earliest convenience,” and urges 1 that the Canadian-Pavific be obliged to use only Canadian seamen in the deck services on the Canada-Oree t Line. The Canadian-Pacific had protested that to replace Chinese with whites on the Oriental liners would involve such extra cost as to make the operation , financially impossible. O f the 2033 men in the service. 265 arp whites.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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