REDUCTION ACCEPTED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 12

REDUCTION ACCEPTED

COOKS rAND 'STEWARDS

SHIPS GET' AWAY

With Ttho. settlement of the cooks and stewards' the vessels held up were quiiikly recommissioned. The Makura lffft Wellington shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday for San Francisco, via Earo'tonga and Papeete, and tho Waimarifno and Katoa got away in the

evening,.

During the day a start lad been made to traiyship tho Waimarino's cargo for southern ports into the Opihi, but this work -ivas discontinued as soon as the union !'a decision was announced.

It i.vas stated last night that the 10 per cent, cut will affect the wages of all c#oks and stewards on all New Zealand registered ships in Dominion watx?,rs as from 16th June.

I*i! reply to the statement made by the secretary of the union (Mr. E., Kennedy) in last night's "Post" that five employers' representative in the Arbitration Court, Mr. T. O. Bishop, hind contended that awards did not in themselves constitute contracts of service, and that tHe shipowners had gone back on the attitude of their representative in the Cburt, and had tried [to maintain that an award ,was a binding contract of service, it has been pointed out that Mr. Bishop had stated that in the Marine Cooks and Stewards' Award, .and in the agreement between tho coastal shipping companies and the Seamen's Union—an unregistered agree-ment—-it. was recognised that the award or agreement was not a contract of service, and that to make it a contract it had to _bb incorporated in tho ship's articles, which were a definite contract between employer and employee. On Mr. Kennedy's own showing that had been done, so that when the men were given 24 hours' notice, the companies were, in fact, ending a contract of service in the manner prescribed in the Shipping and Seamen Act.