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188/45
28.10.37-)
BRITISH EMBASSY,
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
7074
September 20th, 1937.
mess
I have the honour to report that the United States
Maritime Commission have offered to pay a cash bonus to each
officer and member of the crew of Government-operated vessels
entering certain zones in the Mediterranean and the Far ast.
2.
A similar offer by the shipping companies had
previously been refused by the Seamen's Unions, which have
been demanding a bonus of $250 for each voyage, but it is
pertinent to observe that, according to the Commission's
published statement on the subject, the bonus is in addition
to the protection afforded to the seamen of Government-
operated vessels by the United States Employees Compensation
Act.
3.
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A copy of the text of the Commission's statement
is enclosed herein and it will be seen from the definition
whion it gives of the shipping zones in which the bonus will be operative that these are far wider in the Far East than
in the Mediterranean. In the former case the whole of the
Yellow Sea and East China Sea Korth of Hong Kong is covered, whereas in the Mediterranean only spanish territorial waters
and the waters between the Balearic Islands and continental
Spain are constituted as danger zones.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to the
Department of Overscas Trade.
S. S
The Right donourable
Anthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,
etc., etc.,
etc.
I have etc..
($imed)
V.A.L. Mallet
H.M. Chargé d'Affaires.