JOB CONTROL
STAND TAKEN BY STEAMSHIP OWNERS SEAMENS UNION WARNED By Telegraph.— PeEss Association. Copyright. Melbourne, January 9. In a letter to Mr. Raeburn, general secretary of the Australian Seamen’s Union, the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association states that interstate steamship companies will in future decline to employ any member of the Seamen’s Union guilty of having caused any vessel belonging to any of the companies to be delayed or of having attempted to exercise or cause to be exercised job control. The companies also will refuse to emplay any man who unreasonably fails to join the ship or is absent at sailing time without cause. /Accompanving the letter is a memorandum giving 47 cases in which job control lias been practised since the agreement signed between the Union and the Association in August last.— Press Assn. MEN ON POOLTA REFUSE DUTY VESSEL RETURNS TO PORT Sydney, January 9. As the result of Certain members or the crew of the steamer Poolta, which left Newcastle for New Zealand, »e--fusing duty, the vessel returned to port some hours later. It is stated that considerable trouble was experienced with the crew just prior to sailing, and as the vessel was moving away three of the crew leapt hack to the wharf.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 90, 11 January 1926, Page 7
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209JOB CONTROL Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 90, 11 January 1926, Page 7
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