BRITISH SHIPS
LOWER HOURS, LOWER
WAGES
OWNER'S ARGUMENT
GENEVA, December 4.
At the Maritime Conference, Mr.. Ronald Garrett, a director of the Orient Line, said that a reduction in hours must result in a reduction in wages, otherwise countries with ships paying high wages must be forced to take their ships out of commission. '
Mr. Ernest Bevin replied that the shipping industry was developing in the countries paying the best wages. The rates of pay in the British coastal trade were the same as those the Lord Mayor of London apprpved in 1889. Ship owners had not lost the sailingship mind. Could an 84-hour week be tolerated by British seamen when everybody else had 48 or less? he asked.
Speaking at Geneva on November 29, Mr. Garrett said British ship owners were opposed to a convention to regulate hours and manning which does not take account of rates of pay. He argued that the suggested procedure would aggravate the .existing disparity between the wage rates of the various maritime nations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 9
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