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Show SEAMEN GETTING INCREASED WAGES 'Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Monmouth, England, Nov. 20 Seamen Sea-men in South Wales ports are demanding demand-ing large Increases in wages aud are generally getting all they ask. The Interment of German and Austrian Bailors and the calling up of the Hritish naval reserves has caused a great shortage in experienced hands Tho seamen's union ha naturally takn advantage of the situation to exact what it hopes will be a permanent perma-nent scale of wages showing increa ses of from 20 to fiO per cent. The pay of ordinary seamen under the new scale will range from $33 to $50 a month. Before the war it was about $27 |