The following declaration and demands were issued and presented to shipowners yesterday. by the (Chinese Seamen's Union:
Dear Sir,—Representing Chinese seamen, we, Chinese Seamen's Union, Ihave hereby to inform you that its members are always suffering bit-iterness on board; either they are ill-treated -or unreasonably dismissed foreign officers or they get more work and less wages, Their wretched conditions are approximately the following: they are unable by the present wages to support their families according to the present High cost of living; thousands of them have still not resumed their Jjobs since the patriotic movement during the May 30 Massacre 1025; no pension for death or maim on account of work; no sanitation; il-teeatm: nt from foreign officers; no fixed working hours so that the firemen are often jumping into the sea on account of unbearably hard work; wages are squeezed to compensate foremen's bribes offered to foreign officers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.