Amsterdam, Aug. 29.
The pilots of the Roysl Dutch alr-Ting have gone on strike for higher wages and better conditions. All services are held up and all pi abroad are returning to-day.
The immediate cause of the strike is the dismissal of he, pilot Van Dyk, who acted as second pilot to mith on the Intter's recent trans-Atlantic flight on the Southern Cross. Van Dyk was detailed for a Dutch flight to India on September 25, but he refused to accept the conditions, which were the same as there for the airil flights to Java. This led to dismissal, and so all the other pilots walked out in sympathy.
The striking air pilots, who number seventeen, are diseatified with the arrangements. ma sumption of regular air services to the Dutch East Indies. They d2- clare the pay inadequate and that the Company have not_provided in a satisfactory manner for their re-natives in ease of death or serious accident while on duty.
On the other hasd the Company declare that the salaries offered to the pilots on the Dutch East Indies. above the European route:
The strikers replied that the salaries they demand are ten per cent. under the salaries paid to European pilots employed by the German company Lufthansa—Rew-
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