THE MAPOURIKA TROUBLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 4

THE MAPOURIKA TROUBLE.

■ '• rRBITATED ___» STATEiIENT BY UMo2T^^f__3EEr_EY. (By Telegraph—Own Corre«po nai _ L) WELLINGTON, As there was no settlement of «, trouble on the Mapourika this aftel"' the postponed sailing did not eve_tuat_ and to-mght the steamer, with her w7 port and Greymouth passengers, _J_ the wharf with no sign of an early m It is suggested by the Seamen's __?• secretary (Mr. Young) thatthe __? ance is something more than a trifli_. one affecting the Mapourika Th " firemen are wanted , the tfu_ \ co *? ment), -also two "md tiro greasers. .::-. ■ ure * " TAKING A HOLIDAY.'' . Mr. W T Young (secrrfKry of' __ Seamen's Lmon) states that the _,«! men who bad left the ship *cii __■_._* taking a hobday. He did not think _Z this would be a solitary instance dnriml the present holiday season. "s_e f_? is," he said, " the firemen -are irriUteH They resent very much the company in paying off at ChristnJ time certain ships in order .± 0 aaytTii day or two's pay. The company _ 0 * ever can get firemen for, thej_aea__ if it likes to pay the men's terms,___. ly, 12/6 a day. The men, not unnahr ally, resent the action of the-cojßn_, T during the past few yearsi.a J jd,_a ) e__k during the past four years, in pa»J off ships' crews for two or three or __ days at Christmas time. ____~__), are put into commissitHi, like Anau ,w_l be to-morro.Wj.-JSr _ ■—,_ or two. This-is purely casnad ment, for these ships- wffl be-voly nj. ning for a week or two, aad-.then tk crews will be paid off. It is felt flut such crews should in these have special rates ove T and above U_ ordinary monthly wages, for they tn being made a convenience of by t__s, on engagements that may preve_tttiti_ o't-rtaining a permanent, job. : .:.. FRICITON OTER" D"_«s___j___ "Then there is undo_bte_lj.V<stai_j amount of friction to Jbe ,«ftj_)nie_ „ the Marine Department's "action in wit's. holding the dischargejs of men who hars failed to join their nun may have f;he misfcirtune to T_w hj passage, but, under Section 26-of'ths amended Shipping and-- Sea__nl_tt of 1909, the man are punished 'for jr__s_j their ships by the Marine *Dep«rt_«„ by withholding their dischaxgesi T-ct feel this punishment most keenlyj f or tie chances are that they have-already beelogged by the ship, fined for the offence, and lost pay that was due to than. And on top of that their", discharges are held up. They are thus punished jthree or four times for the one offence. _$us._ file cause of some irritatioHi -f juv _» also, there* -is some -n_suneienrtßiid_t becausei, when the men are thus deprited by the Marine Department Of. wohoiij at their calling, perhaps -Hiey are idle for a monii, which is a loss of- £18 a wage». They have the man was responsible for the retention of thar discharges. This is -not-so. .-It it rim that the Marine Department-4m'sent these cases on to the itßion;far the eit cutive to deal with,_aitL_oalj_s»y__iil:. ly that in such cases the.je_eeutive tikes no action, holding tbs&Tilje. men bin already.. been —adequately punished. by the ship, let iilemp their,(OTmnu_tory idleness caused by the j*fe_i_a_ .of that discharges. The union in such cases declines to take any actionrtwhatseieTer. Well, you see, these "things'"*-: make for the irritation of the men. As far as the union is eoneerned, I may say that-the • executive has not eonsiderer] a. single case of the kind, namely, tJj»-witiihold-ing of dischargers by -tie Msjajte Department since the 7<th of No»ember. I .should not be. surprised if there we're not still further manifest*ti«B made of the resentment felt by ,firen|en at the causes of irritation to'whiehjhave referred." ST___MS"H_P STAT____INT."'" The manager of the Union & ie___ip Company (Mr. W. A. Kennedy) mentioned this afternoon that arrangement* had been made for the transfer of.Rcion and Nelson passengers and maik la another vessel. The West Cejast.panengers were on board, and the'stacst dispatch was being used in —ie est--stances to get the vessel-away. The men were demanding 10/ a day and 2/6 overtime for the trip. *B5i«_(Sl'8: *«ges were £10 a month ioi four *)in watches. - . -. ■: •'■ '■ THE VOYAGE EESDMED. . (By Telegraph.—Press Asaodation.) WET.LTNGTON, _i» elaj. The Mapourika, which has been-bun? up here for 32 hours, with a fnll complement of passengers, got away"it milnight, the necessary _rem_a having being secured.