BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE
STAGGERING DEMANDS. LONDON, August 20. A crisis is threatened in the merchant service. Officers, engineers, stokers, and seamen urge for increased wages, and assert that the shipowners have persist ently delayed the consideration of their claims. 'I he engineers demand an'" immediate 50 per 1 cent, increase, tho officer’s demand 40 per cent., and the seamen and firemen have submitted a graded scale of from 30 to 40 per cent, increase. It is reported that the shipowners are aghast at the demands.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 3
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85BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 3
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