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Hello. I’ve just been reading your book, Unsinkable. You mention that it was curious that the band were listed as passengers. Were you aware that just weeks before the Titanic sailed, the Musicians Union of England had tried to prevent the band sailing? The union had discovered that the men were being paid below the union rate. Union officials met with Ismay shortly before Titanic’s sister ship sailed on March 13, 1912. His reponse was that if they were not happy with the band being paid as crew at one shilling a month, he would taken them as passengers. It was Ismay’s way of getting around a pay issue.
Alan
Hello. I’ve just been reading your book, Unsinkable. You mention that it was curious that the band were listed as passengers. Were you aware that just weeks before the Titanic sailed, the Musicians Union of England had tried to prevent the band sailing? The union had discovered that the men were being paid below the union rate. Union officials met with Ismay shortly before Titanic’s sister ship sailed on March 13, 1912. His reponse was that if they were not happy with the band being paid as crew at one shilling a month, he would taken them as passengers. It was Ismay’s way of getting around a pay issue.
Alan