COOKS AND STEWARDS.
APPLICATION FOR BONUS. A TEST CASE. :,,--- . LARGE SCM INVOLVED. (By "Teleeraph—rress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. An application by the Federated Cook and Stewards for a bonus of £2 a month was heard in the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr. Smith (on behalf of th_ C'nion Company) said the case was a. test case. Whatever bonus was grantea would have to be paid to other seagoing unions, involving £5«,47_ per annum. As far as the I'nion Company was concerned, if the bonus were granted, an increase of tares was inevitable. He asked the Court to refuse the bonus altogether. The induatrv was a special one, and it was never intended that the bonus should apply The majority of the men were
single ' Mr Kennedy (on behalf of the Federation! said that, despite the increases granted to stewards, their earnings worked out at 1/1 per hour only, while the galley staff earned lOd an hour. The Court reserved its decision.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 293, 8 December 1920, Page 5
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