SHIPPING DEPRESSION
SORE STRAITS OF OFFICERS. HUNDREDS NO EMPLOYED. LONDON, August 14. At least two ships are entirely manned on deck by certificated officers and a considerable number of officers aie signed on in the forecastle of 'other ships, says the report of the Merchant Navy Federation, revealing the disastrous effect of the depression in pingThere is acute distress, the report- 1 states, among members of the federation in the United Kingdom, where 1048 captains, navigating and engineer officers are unemployed. The position in the dominions is equally serious where, in addition, there are large numbers of non-federation men unemployed. One captain who was decorated for war service, is earning a few shillings a, week scene-shifting and selling newspapers; others ere doing window cleaning, hotel and restaurant waiting, and i door-to-door canvassing. Several are 1 living in homes for the destitute, and walking the streets of London every day, diligently seeking employment. One officer recently collapsed exhausted near St. Paul’s Cathedral,
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1931, Page 2
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