DEMAND FOR EXTRA STOKERS
■ .. - - —; ■; . ' TEMPORARY DELAY TO TOFUA (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 3. When the crew was being signed on the articles of the steamer Tofua this morning a dispute arose regarding the number of stokers, and men refused <to sign. The union demanded six extra stokers should be signed, thereby increasing the manning scale to that for four boilers, instead of only three. The company emphatically declined to accede to the request because in the past the fourth boiler has been used only on the return voyage from Fiji to Auckland. and to cope with the extra firing Fiji firemen have been engaged at Suva at award rates. Particulars of the dispute were telegraphed to the head office of the Seamen’s Union in Wellington, and a reply received in the afternoon instructed the men to sign on the vessel. The reply was discussed at a meeting of the local union, and it was decided to relinquish the demand for extra stokers, and to carry out the instructions from Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 34, 3 November 1928, Page 11
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