Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-06-15 | Page 7 | Seamen Turn down Freedom Proposal

SEAMEN TURN DOWN FREEDOM PROPOSAL GEN GENOA A June 15 American proposals proposals i that s seamen amen submit to the international I t conference of labor of the league of nations nations na- na I a proposition to make seamen allover allover all aU over the world free men was defeated at the parliamentary meeting of the In International International In- In Seamen's conference here to to- to day Andrew Furuseth American delegate and anti president of the International Seamen's Sea Sea- mens men's union pointed out that at present European seamen have the status of serfs He explained that the th American seamen's act is not for tor the purpose of getting foreign sailors aboard American vessels but to induce American citizens to go to sea which they would not do because their status was not of free men A As a result of this law he declared native na na- na- na tive tire Americans going to sea have increased in increased in- in creased about 7 per cent to 47 per cent in the last four years I