The freighter Edgar Bowling, of the Garland Steamship Line, of New York, which was recently in Vancouver for a small quantity of cargo, and left here for her home port, ran foul of the authorities When she arrived there. affidavit charging that the freighter was preparing to sail for Baltimore, Norfolk, Ya., and the Pacific Const. with a crew' of Chinese, only three of whom could speak English, was. made public by Silas B, Axtel, counsel for the Neptune Association of Masters and Mates. An investigation was put under way. The basis of the affidavit was that the Edgar Bowling left New York several months ago with an American crew which was discharged in China and displaced by Chinese at a lower rate: of wages, This, it was claimed, was a violation of the Seamen's Act. which provides that 75 per cent, of a vessel's crew must be able to understand orders given by the' captain and officers.
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