SEAMEN'S SETTLEMENT.
WAGES INCREASED 35/ MONTH THE OVERTIME RATE. MELBOURNE, September 17. Mr. E. D. Millen announced to-day that an agreement has been reached between shipowners, representing 95 per cent of the Commonwealth tonnage, and the seamen, which will be formally signed on Monday. The agreement provides for an increase of wages of seamen by 35/ a month over the awards of December, 1018, a flat rate of 2/6 an hour for overtime work, and an allowance of four hours off in port for each week a seaman is employed. The agreement will be retrospective to August, and will expire in December, 1922. — (A. and N.Z.)
THE PROVISION FOR ILLNESS. BETTER QUARTERS FOR CREWS. (Received 11.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The shipowners also agreed to return sick seamen to their home ports, paying wages till their return to duty, providing the illness was contracted in service aboard ship, and to provide better accommodation for the crews.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 222, 18 September 1919, Page 5
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