THE MANNING OF SHIPS.
London, November 20. Representatives of a number of trade unions waited on the Hon. D Llovd- • ieorge and asked for the enforcement »f the regulations for the proper manning of British ships. Mr. LlovdGeorge said it would be unwise to rush thipowners all at once with every kind of reform. More had been done'in the last two years to benefit seamen than during the preceding thirty years. The business of the Legislature' was to force the reluctant and recalcitrant minority up to the level of the better type of shipowners. Manning was a question not merely of number, but of efficiency and competency. He promised to rccon+nend the Advisory Committe- to consider the question of under-manning. He added that much depended on the improvement of the conditions of service in the mercantile marine. Siilors, too, must remember they also had a duty to perform. They were not altogether free of blame themselves.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 December 1907, Page 3
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156THE MANNING OF SHIPS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 December 1907, Page 3
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