﻿There might have been room for mild criticism of the Brittish seaman years ago when the galley was in the fé’stle and the rations came down in two tin-dishpan—dessert once a week—but today all that is forgotten and the seamen have succeeded in dishing the Clyde new blueprints and the steward a new set of rules of etiquette. 
Of recent sorry date some of the skippers on foreign ships have been chiseling on the promised pay agreement when they verbaly shanghai American seamen, as well as short changing them on the ham and eggs later. 
This indicates that unionism isn’t wide awake, and that it should be world-wide in scope. 
Not only that, West-Coast agreement doesn’t seem to hold and many of the finer points such as overtime is overlooked—shipowners living on the fat of the land. 
Mule wont work after sunset. 
In the early days before any medium of exchange was invented masters would not and could not carry home the workers production and workers had to pack the stuff into the bosses bins… 
Heluva note! 
Then the Phoneyseions invented money. 
Today the master can carry home thousand workers’ production in his hip pocket and never bat an eye. It’s a good thing it wasn’t postage stamps? 
In recent days however some of the practical jokers in Europe went back to the “barter ssystem” and now it looks as if the boss will have to do some heavy lugging or workers will be forced to keep their production, themselluf.