Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — Scarcity of Sailors. [ARTICLE]

Scarcity of Sailors.

Hardly ever before were sailors known to be so scarce, it being almost impossible at the present time for vessels at New England ports to secure crews, says the Kennebec (Me.) Journal. White crews seem to be a thing of the past on board the large sized coastwise craft, and the colored sailors who of late have been filling their places seem to be drifting into other pursuits! Many of the latter secured places as firemen on board steamers at the time of the unsuccessful strike of the Coastwise union last May, and have held on to the jobs ever since. At any rate, very few of them have been seen in this port of late, and, despairing of getting a crew here, the owners of the schooner Clarence H. Venner and Malcolm Baxter Jr., have engaged the Boston tug Baxter to tow the two bessels to Philadelphia, where they are under charter to load coal. The tug will get |625 for the tow, and, with the uncertain weather conditions, she 16 likely to earn it