SEAMEN'S WAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 304, 20 December 1912, Page 5

SEAMEN'S WAGES.

ggajJY FOB G_____C S___E. _ cO-rF_3_ENCE DEMANDED. (Recei-red 3.30 a___) L*.'ND* iN", December 19. Seamen _ --ion otSciais fr _ ai! Darwin meet in London en Deoember _>*. _ a ____r that has been issued b*i J_ Eavdock- V\ __on. the seamen of th"< ____ ___£_om are nr_ed to keep them g_-_ in i___ss :' rr a national strike. __ _rc_i_r eo_iplai__ that the Ship P*2g l*%d_r_*—en. in leciarrns- an increasi _ Tragi*-, acted withoa*. Co-suiting thi ____ 3S to whether the advances whici _f anpowners caii s___t__.t_al would bi 3_-jt_ble to the _e_ __ —ten are demanding a cemferena j_ the pnrpese c r iiscirssu—-* the qnestioi _\ fi_ ____l___-ne_ of a Wages Board. "Be Stripping . eiier_r:o_ aimotmced _> g_ bes_nii_g ot" the present month tha: oai—g to the prosp—nty of the shippin£ taot the scale of waces would be raiser. fpim the end of the year. A cablegram j__d_7 static that the Tyne Comr_itte< of the Fed_ra_c_ had fi red the increase* a 10/ a month for oversea vessels anc J/4 i week for coasting veseshs.