INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE
o GENERAL STRIKE FAVOURED. (Rec. August 15, 5.5 p.m.) Brussels, August 13. Tho International Seamen's Conference adopted a proposal by the Belgian delegation in favoiir of a general strike Of seamen with the object: of obtaining an eight-hour day and a' fc-rty-eight-hour week, with a French amendment in favour of submitting the proposal to a commission composed equally of shipowners and seamen before launching the strike movement. The motion and amendment wore practically unanimously agreed to.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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81INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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