Twenty years ago the reports of the Comminssioner of Navigation show that not more than 30 per cent of the men employed on American ships were American citizens. But the records of the United States shipping comminlssiones show that the number of American citizens so employed has been notably increasing of recent years. Thus in the year 1907 there were shipped by these commissioners on vessels of the United States chiefly in the coastwise trade. 69.822 Anmeriefn citizens. of whom .44.085 were natives of this country. and 25.737 were naturalized. In 1913 these commissioners shipped on vessels of the United States 95.820 American citizens.. of whom 63.040 were natives of this country and 32.780 were naturalized. American citizens now make up oneha.If of the crews shipped by the United States commissioners. The bill of the confererence committee. allowing the suspension of the law that requires that the officers of vessels of tLe United States shall be citizens of the United States. would inevitably lead to the displacing of American seamen by foreigners. for foreign officers would naturally prefer foreign crews. who not only will work for lower wages but will put up with mean living conditions and are less high spirited and more subservient than Americans.
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Foreign officers would prefer foreign crews who will work for lower wages and are more subservient than Americans.