AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 218, 15 June 1925, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN

RE-REGISTRATION SOUGHT BY UNION Sydney, June 13. It is reported that the Committee of Management of the Federated Seamen’s Union has decided to apply for registration as a trade union under the industrial laws of every State. It is said that the move is being taken with the object of thwarting any attempt on the part of a rival organisation to secure registration in the Federal Arbitration Court. Since the deregistration of the Seamen’s Union the officials of the union have been anxious to secure some method of safeguarding the seamen at present employed under award conditions. With this object in view action was taken by the union immediately after the new articles for the steamer Monaro’s crew were signed at Melbourne. Mr. Walsh and Mr. O’Neill, of the Victorian branch of the union, presented the company with a renuest that it should include in the articles a clause by which the company would be practically bound to conform with the wages and conditions provided in the cancelled award. The company refused to agree to the insertion of this clause, and Ijie Monaro was held up. Representatives of the shipping companies state that the Seamen’s Ucon has no reason to suppose that the shipowners intend to alter the conditions or wages ruling at present.—Press Assn.