The jot im China." They outline the ature of the. many seamew's employees' unions and guide, the specific abuses practised, and the methods being employed hi the China Merchants' Steam Wavigation Company, with, considerable success, to combat ther, Shipping companies up and down the China coast have their own "Old Man of the Sea." This is the tet boy "racket," which has grown with the years to such proportions that it 4s causing the companies loss and {n-convenience. Passengers are bullied, wonderful opportunities for smuggling are opened, "squeezes" by" allowing passengers at halt or even quarter fares are made possible, and all sorts of cargo not shown on the ship's manifest are carried, either without cost oF at a loss fo the company eon-
In other countries it would be easy to stop; in China it is so bound up with other interests, some of them very big, that it Ig next door to impossible to do anything about st unfit compensation, of some sort or another, has been arranged. In Chin: officiis of seamen's unlons—the plural is used, because there are many with apparently opposing ob-Jectives—do not care to throw out recalcitrant members, because they themselves derive power and author ily from numbers rather than quality; in other countries, seumen's unions are anxious to protect their good name by admitting only genuine seamen—men the championship of whose cause can only gain them credit in the eyes of the general public,
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