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damage? Or, as in the Act of 1880, in what trade can a 

 man who refuses to do his work be lawfully taken to it by ' 

 force, by his master, his foreman, or police ? The reply to 

 all these is that they are anomalous, and " possessed by 

 shipowners alone of all employers of labour." Therefore, 

 according to the President's views, they should be repealed 

 at once. But in the Act of 1880 he created a fresh anoma- 

 lous power of " conveying on board," it might be, a drunken 

 man (unable to appeal to be taken before the magistrates) 

 compelling him to go to sea in an unseaworthy ship or other- 

 wise forcing him to his work. This is an anomaly for 

 the President to explain. Either this trade requires anoma- 

 lous legislation or it does not. The President seems to say 

 it shall not have it. As he distinctly refuses to assist in 

 getting the anomalous power of arrest without warrant 

 re-enacted, therefore let the whole of the " anomalous 

 powers possessed by shipowners alone of all employers of 

 labour " be repealed. But, on the other hand, if he admits 

 that anomalous legislation is required, as he does by the 

 sanctioning of it in the Act of 1880 above referred to, let 

 the trade have such anomalous legislation as has been 

 amply proved to be the only suitable kind, and which may 

 possibly help to save some of the lives of which the 

 President further on in his speech deplores the loss, by 

 guaranteeing that our ships and fishing vessels shall be 

 efficiently manned with their full complement of trustworthy 

 seamen, and not be shorthanded, or manned by loafers, on 

 account of the efficient hands selected by a master or owner 

 being allowed, after having been lawfully shipped, to break 

 their agreements for their own private whims and fancies. 



This calls to mind the way in which the question of life- Life-saving, 

 saving is dealt with by the Board of Trade. It is part of 

 the duty of this department, and to carry it out it has 



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