The Shellback's Progress in the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

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Of modern shipowners and the Legislature to give him every possible advantage consistent with the peculiarities of the trade in which he is engaged. One of the most recent advantages suggested in their report by the Mercantile Com mittee, who sat for, I think, about twelve months taking evidence from shipowners, shipmasters, sailors, and others, is that an amended food scale should be adopted, and that the seaman should have the right of appeal against a bad dis charge that may be given him. In my opinion the great body of shipowners will endorse that portion of their recommendations. It is to be de sired that the seamen will recognize in this a willingness on the part of their employers to deal justly with them, for undoubtedly it was the evi dence given by shipowners that influenced the.

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