GERMAN SAILORS' STRIKE.
EXTENSION TO AUSTRALIA. (Australian snrl N.Z. Gable Assn.i LONDON, January 16 Five German crews, totalling 100 men, struck at Cardiff in response to a message from the London Stride Committee calling on all German seamen in British ports to strike unless the owners are prepared to give British seamen's rate of wages 'n British currency. A crew sent from Germany to man a steamer at Cardiff sold to a German company, refused to travel from Loqdon to Newport, where the ship was berthed, until the owners complied with the Strike Committee's order. SYDNEY, January 17. The German crew of the German cargo steamer Hanover struck, demanding English rates of pay and to be paid in English currency. The crew i asserted that since they left Hamburg they had been working for a rate not much in excess of os monthly in English currency.-
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15894, 19 January 1924, Page 8
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