THE SEAMEN'S UNION AND THE UNION S.S. COMPANY.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 33, 10 February 1881, Page 2

THE SEAMEN'S UNION AND THE UNION S.S. COMPANY.

[UNITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, 9th February. An amicable adjustment of differences has been effected between the Seamen's Union, on the one hand, and the Union 3.5. Company, through tho managing director, Mr. James Mills, on the other. It has been decided that Port Chalmers shall be the final port of discharge for all the seamen engaged by the Union Company, and that twenty- four hours' notice on either side at Port Chalmers, but at no other port, shall anffice to determine the engagement. It was also arranged that no man engaged by the company should be discharged against his desire at any New Zealand port or Australian port, except Port Chalmers. Ihe eight hours' system of labor is to be applied in connection with the ports of Sydney, Melbourne, and Port Chalmers, where the families of most of tho men are located, but, conditional upon being paid for overtime, the men agrco to work after hours when other labor is scarce. At other safe ports the hours to be as before. There are to be no restrictions upon time and labor when the steamers are at sea, or m open roadsteads or dangerous ports. Men residing at any other port than Port Chalmers shall,

after being discharged at Port Chalmers, be permitted to work their passage in any of the company's steamers from the port to their place of abode.