UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME
WARNING TO SEAMEN. Mention has been made in the cablegrams within the past week or so that numbers of ships are idle at Home owing to the poor outlook for- obtaining freights. The fillowing notice to -seamen has been posted outside the office of the Federated Seamen’s Union,Queen’s Chamber", Wellington:— "Owing to the bad state of the labour market and the large number of unemployed in the Old Country (abont 1,030,0691. Che Minister of Marine has requested headquarters of the union to warn seamen against going to the United Kingdom, there being no pried poet of employment for them, and the chance of getting n -ship back to the colonies is very remote. Headquarters, therefore, advises all seamen not to join it, ship bound to the United Kingdom Unless provision is entered on the articles of agreement that they will he returned to New Zealand on free passage with wages running on until they reach their port of shipment iff the Dominion."
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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165UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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