SEAMEN'S HOURS
(To tha Editor.)
Sir,—On proving that your paper is unbiased, by your publication of a letter by me some months ago, I am asking you again to permit another. It is in reply to an article on New. Zealand seamen by Sir H. Gullett, M.H.R. He states that New Zealand seamen are on a 40-hour week or are getting the equivalent in pay. This is quite wrong. New Zealand seamen work a 56-hour week, less four hours time off weekly, for which if the time is not given they receive payment at 3s 2d an hour. He also states that the whole of the third-class passenger space was handed over to the crew
for extra hands carried. This is a ridiculous statement. The public of New Zealand are being told about high wages being paid to New Zealand seamen but I can prove that wp are the poorest paid workers in New Zealand today. In conclusion, I would state that not a single New Zealand ship is on a 40-hour week.— I am, etc., ALEXANDER MARSHALL.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 8
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