MERCANTILE MARINE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16851, 3 June 1920, Page 7

MERCANTILE MARINE.

AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. ' (j->y Cable—Presa Association.'—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Juno 2nd. 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 2. Tho Executive Council of the Seamen's Union has issued a call to all maritimo unions to attend a world's International Maritime Congress. It is anticipated that far-reaching results for seamen will bo achieved. So far tho placo of meeting has not been decided. [At tho annual general meeting of tho Seafarers' Joint) Council, held in Liverpool on March 19th, tho following programme was prepared for discussion at the International Conference: —International minimum wage; international load line (table of freeboard); international prohibition or limitation of deck loads; international lifccsaving applij anccs; international manning scale (including nationality); international standard of accommodation on board ship; international hours of labour at sea and in port, and a standard number of days to the month; international standard of victualling and serving of food; right of seamen to portion of wages earned and standing to their credit when in a foreign port; wages to continue in case of shipwrcok or illness until arrival home; international standard of compensation for loss of life, accident, and loss of effects; pilotage (a) compulsory, (b) restriction as to nationality, (c) ships' officers not to undertake pilotage duties; reconstruction of wireless maritime telegraph service; national joins, maritime industrial councils and an international joint maritime industrial council.]