MARITIME PAY INCREASED

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1923, Page 7

MARITIME PAY INCREASED

AUSTRALIAN SHIPS AND PORTS

STRIKE OF WATERSIDERS EX-

PECTED.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION COP¥!U<illT.*

MELBOURNE, 30th October

| From Ist November, as a result of j the September quarterly adjustments, the pay of maritime workers will be increased as follows :—Masters, officers, seamen, shipwrights, cooks, and stewaids, 7s 6d per month; painters, dockers, and waterside workers, Id per hour. The aggregate effect upon the interState shipping companies will be equivalent to £50.030 annually. This, added to the increases granted under the June adjustments, equals £203,CG0 annually, it is reported that an all-Australian strike of watersiders is imminent. The water&iders have been instructed to hold stop-work meetings over twentyfour hours every alternate Wednesday throughout Australia, commencing on ,7th November. The action is taken with a view to securing the abolition of the deep-sea bureau, through which nonunionists are employed. The report lacks official confirmation. (Received 31st October. 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Morris, president of the Waterside Workers' Federation, scouts the suggestion of a general strike, but adds that stop-work meetings have been convened in Sydney.