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R. Grace & Company find that wages and food of a steamship under the American flag amount to $2, 773 a month as compared with $1, 991 under the British flag. "On British steamers which we recently trans- ferred to the American flag, " says this firm, "the foreign crews struck for American wages the day of transfer and received them. " The United States Steel Products Company, which handles the export trade of the United States Steel Corporation, has nine steamers transferred from British to Ame...rican registry. The 373 members of these nine crews under British registry received in wages $12, 478 a month. The 393 members of these nine crews under American registry receive $i 7, 537 a month an increase of 40. 54 per cent, and in addition there has been an increase of 19 per cent in the cost of food. The steamship Brindilla, of the Standard Oil Company, has a total wage bill under the American flag of $1, 765 a month, as compared with $936. 10 a month when this same ship was the German steamer Washington.
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