Travellers arriving in Shanghai by steamers from Europe tell harrowing tales of the inattention which marks the service of the stewards on board ship, a serious departure from the old state of affairs. Passengers desiring to sleep on deck in the Red Sea can no longer prevail upon these gentlemen to carry their beds from the cabin to the deck because the Stewards' Union has forbidden it.
The reason for this is that the task of moving the beds necessitates both late and early hours for its members, who, following the precedents set by other forms. of labour, have decided that they are
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