MERCHANT SERVICE DISPUTE
AFFILIATION WITH TRANSPORT
WORKERS.
SYDNEY, 13th October.
Owing to dissatisfaction at the recent award the masters and engineers' branch of the Merchant Service Guild has decided to affiliate with the Transport Workers' Federation.
[Mi. Justice Higgins's award in the dispute between the Merchant Service Guild and the Commonwealth Steamship Ownei's' Association fixed the salaries of masters of seagoing passenger vessels at £30 10s to £80 per month, and of nonpassenger seagoing vessels at £26 2s to £55 per month. On steamers in inside waters the masters or engineers were awarded' £5 10s to £7 10s per week, all according to tonnage.]
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 91, 14 October 1920, Page 7
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104MERCHANT SERVICE DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 91, 14 October 1920, Page 7
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