:
487
of
other persons afloat personally affected by the working of cargoes
in harbour
The signatures include
*
only 48
or
50
persons directly
are
of
connected with shipping, several of these being Germano & other foreigners; whilst
these fifty, heads of only nineteen houses, being mostly agents for absentee shipowners in England or Scotland be. Thus leaving, out of the fifty shipping people was
hardly
sign, 31 clerks, &c, who could
VC,
do otherwise than sign when their
chiefs did
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several
the
of
clerks having previously signed,
the Sailor's petition
in 1888,
against compulsory Sunday
work.
edmon get the other sig-
Laterres
matures
are
those
of & storekeepers, many
being Parsees, Jews,
111 Merchants
them of
& not a
Jew
Germans; 6 insurance companies
of
which
ad
only
tivo
have signed
43 Brokers, Bank
Companies;
Clerks, & Architects &e; I Dentist ;
anot
29 others not known to our
corresponden dents
at Hong Kong,
and duplicate signatures; making. with the beforementioned fifty per-
Aons
directly connected,
as agents
or clerks, &c, with the shipping
business,
taries
С
total
who
240
of
signa would stay the hands
of right and justice to the 126,000
seamen who annually
officers &
frequent the great harbour of
trong trong
under the British
flag, besides those
do
40
under
crews who
foreign flags.
This