More and more men come to sea as does the sewage. The last Congress passed a law providing for more reasonable hours of labor for officers of vessels. and it is largely disobeyed. either secretly or openly. with the excuse that the shipowners can not find men from whom officers can be made. Let this thing continue a few more years and the Asiatic will have to be accepted on the bridge in command. because none others will be available. Men from the Mediterranean. from Arabia. India. and South Africa sail the vessels on the Atlantic. men from China and Japan sail the vessels In the trade between our Pacific ports and Asia. The number of Asiatics and Africans from the south of Africa in the merchant marine of Great Britain Is about 100.000. Norway. with her former surplus of seamen. has not enough for her own vessels. and the number is steadily decreasing. Germanys seamen come from the interior. and.are diminishing.
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