THE MANNING OF SHIPS.
TRADES UNIONS' DESIRES, LONDON, November 29. A representative number of traiec unions waited on the Right Hon. D„ Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, relative to the enforcement of powers for the proper manning of (British ships. Mr Lloyd-George said it would be unwise to rush shipowners all at once with every kind of reform. More has been done in the last two years to benefit seamen than during the previous thirty. The business of the Legislature was to force a reluctant recalcitrant minority up to the level of the ibetter typ« of shipowners. Manning was not merely a question of numbers, but efficiency and competency. He promised to recommend the Advisory Committee to consider the question of under-manning, and added that much depended on the improvement in the conditions of the mercantile marine. Sailors, too, must remember that they also had a duty to perform—they were not altogether free of blame.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 2 December 1907, Page 5
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157THE MANNING OF SHIPS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 2 December 1907, Page 5
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