MERCHANT SEAMEN. REMUNERATION OF: Note by Minister of War Transport.

now merely civil offences but were acts definitely our war effort. I have reason to believe that an arrangement will be made under which all Allies (including the U.S.A.) agree that no seaman may be shipped on a ship belonging to will another country except with the permission of his own Government and this will ease the position very considerably. hindering 5. Notwithstanding this my representatives in the U.S A. have reported that there is a distinct lowering of morale amongst British seamen in America, that some American administration circles hold the view that our seamen are underpaid, that American labour circles are agitating under the surface with our seamen to secure American wages.