COMMUNISM IN PRACTICE
!. f APPLIED TO SHIPPING PROVES A COSTLY FAILURE. SHIPS SOLD TO PAY WAGES. (Australian and N,Z. Cable Assn.) Beceived February 25, 8.15 p.m. LONDON, February 23. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent slales that, the attempt '•> apply Communist principles to af' - ping company failed. The-Nitli Cm ument in 1020 gave a Genoese <■ miniums!, agitator. Captain Guiliotti, a number of ships valued at 60,000,000 lire, in order to constitute a communist shipping company. Other ships were added later from the Government sources at a nominal price. After a year's experiment the venture ended in a formidable deficit, Captain Giuliotti pointing out that he was forced to engage a crew of 52 to do work ordinarily done by 20. [lining and smoke rooms for the crews had also greatly increased the expenses. Tlic vessels may have to be sold in order to pay the wages of the crews.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14600, 25 February 1921, Page 5
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