Rotterdam, Aug. 30.
'The crisis which has been browing between Netherlands ship-owners and seamen came toa head to-day when the Se Transport Workers' Union decided to declare a general strike.
'Recently the ship-owners' enforced 'a wage-cut, This was bitterly ree sented by the seamen, many whom demonstrated their dissatisfaction by walking out. The owners replied by engaging foreign. miss the newly-crigs and reinstate the former employees on better terms, a general strike, effective from to-day, was decided
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