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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 226, 21 June 1934, Page 10

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Cooks-Stewards Dispute

Settled

CREW FOR MAKURA

Conference to be Held

Next Month

SEAMEN TO PARTICIPATE

Tlie dispute between the Union Company and the Cooks and,Stewards’ Union, whicli began nearly a fortnight ago. and whicli has led to the paving oil of six passenger and cargo ‘ vessels at Wellington, was settled yesterday afternoon. The Cooks and Stewards’ Union has agreed to man all vessels which have been affected by the hold-up. and a conference between the parties to discuss the question of wages will be held next month. The Seamens Union will also participate in the conference.

The first vessel to benefit .by the settlement of the dispute is the Vi aimarino. which has been held-up at Wellington since Monday through being unable to replace her cook, who went ashore sick on that morning. A fresh cook was supplied late yesterday afternoon by the union, and the Waimarino. which carries a large shipment of potatoes from Lyttelton for the Auckland market, left last night for the northern port. Of the other vessels affected, the Kaimai and Kiwitea are expected to recommission during the next day or two. The Lyttelton express service steamer Maori, which was to have left Wellington on June 9 for Lyttelton in place of the Waliine, is also expected to recommission this week, but no definite date was available last night. Makura for Sydney. The It.M.S. Makura is. it is understood. to make a trip In the intercolonial service 1 before she re-enters the San Francisco mail service, leaving Wellington on July 10, but in her ease also no definite sailing date had been fixed last night. The Monowai and Maunganui are at present undergoing overhaul and survey at Wellington. The Monowai is, on her present schedule, to resume running in the Intercolonial service, leaving Wellington on August 10 for Sydney, while the Maunganui’s next trip to San Francisco will be from Wellington on August. 7. A conference between the parties to the dispute took place on Tuesday afternoon, and after lengthy deliberations a proposal to be submitted to a meeting of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union was agreed upon. The union met yesterday afternoon, when the proposal was placed before its members. The executive committee of the union having met earlier, it recommended to the general meeting that, the proposal brought from Tuesday’s conference be accepted, a course which was agreed to. Secretary’s Statement. Late yesterday afternoon the secretary of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, Mr. E. Kennedy, issued the following statement:—-

Following on a eonferene'e with the managing-director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New g. Zealand, Limited, Mr. N. S. Falla, the Cooks mid Stewards’ Union have agreed to man the Makura and other vessels at present requiring providers halids. It has been further arranged that a joint conference with representatives of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union and the Seamen’s Union will lie held at a date in July to be mutually arranged to discuss the question of wages mid other matters concerned.