COLOURED CREWS.
ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR. OF THEM.
By Teleerapli-Press Association-Oopyriehl
Sydney, November 9. The agents of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have prepared a statement with reference to the employment of coloured crews.
They point out that tho coloured men employed in the P. and 0. Lines are British subjects, first-class seamen and boatmen, and strictly sober and amenable to discipline. They are engaged under the supervision of the Indian Government, and receivo full pay from tho time they leave until they are returning to India. The space allotted to each man .is the same as that allotted to Englishmen.
The agents therefore desire to know in what manner does the employment, of coloured British subjects aboard a ship compete with Australian and New Zealand seamen or waterside workers. If coloured seamen were dispensed with, how. many Australian arid New. Zealandborn men would be available to man the P. and 0. steamers. They urge that Parliamentarians should ask . themselves whether they should lend themselves to fomenting objection against any section of the King's Indian subjects.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 5
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177COLOURED CREWS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 5
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