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SEAMEN'S BOYCOTT.

i ,'' London, MajgSO. Mr. Ha.Telock"Wilson, president ?Es#B Seamen and firemen's Union, hasiiatfo a statement on. the. subject of the sacrifices of our mercantile marine. amt«|B£u> - future punishment of the mutfeets. * He said:— ■• ■ I shall be well -within the, amuck, if' I • Btate that nearly 15,000 Brifish seamen' havo been murdered by German pirates" since August, 1914. And the paoe groWB hotter, bo far as the loss of life ', is concerned, for, although there has been a decline in the number of ships attacked, the Germans are more than ever determined that the sailors in the ships they do manage to sink shall none ? of them live to tell the damming tale ;■• of murder of which our comrades h*vo ."j been the viotims. ' i It cannot be too widely toaown thftt .. the British sailors are in deadly «amest' i 3 in their determjnatSon to apply the .;J punitive boycott 1 to Germany afteY Hao ■ /j war.' !Less than a year ago the limits.. ■ of the boycott was fixed at two years; j ,i but the penalty grows with the crime, Jj and at the moment the period during \ which we shall decline to have anything, "j to" do with the transport of goods, to or' ~:] from Germany is five years and a hitff. L And if there are pople at (home foolish enough to think that this penalty will ';* not be exacted to' the uttermost, 1 can $ assure them that I have the most posi- ,i tive proof in my possession that the J commercial folk in Germany arc living M in no such fools' paradise. They are . J very uneasy about it, because they ~J know that we already possess the power J and influence to make good our threat,' M and that public opinion in this country J| is growing in our favor every day. Al-' 'M moßt by every post we are enrolling- JH new members in the Merchant Seamen's JH league, and we havo yet to a *|l hall that is too large for our meetitjg* gm in any part of the country. .

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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 5

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SEAMEN'S BOYCOTT. Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 5

SEAMEN'S BOYCOTT. Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 5

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