JUSTICE AS DISPENSED BY THE U.S.S. COMPANY.

Evening Star, Issue 9878, 14 December 1895, Page 3 (Supplement)

JUSTICE AS DISPENSED BY THE U.S.S. COMPANY.

V ' TO'THE, JtPITPB-I •'■ the of fe bffi» s*,, mfeWgiven it endeavor to'act'in a < just, W¥°S ™> l h t£ 0 employ^../These! very well,, and are m)>mm i^ l Wj& uninitiated, but they are;mm«ntijiy *«*■»i tbthpseiwhp ,are compelled.™ I<> Dk tootle company for4Uve.libdpd. ■,Jo jjommon.with others,'l long,been Know, on what system ia, fgiVen • buV after long ,and, close conclude tb*t bapkstair,,iuQweufce syW phalidy are the open sesame toany Work; that, may be gping. .At the present 1 time there are a. number .of, jften who naye been n oub of employment t pr months who,, on making, .application fqr wslf, are invariably promised t%j first; opening' that occurs. Meanwhile vacancies and those longest, out:?!., wprki wltneis'the. spectacle' of have;, gcbssly mitted themselves;, .bejjig fehilted. from one vessel -tp ! any' intermediate spell; to Spurge' tiemseljTOs jpt their wrongdoings., ~shis ,purging';ohe¥elf for a, 80-caUed ihishehayiflur; 'has ; become quite an innoyatipji;', ipen. itoldih sbine ca9ea that they can lbokfor. work elseWnere for a period of six months. 'JThe^at^n 1 which pbtjiins in tq/the rfepbrts;which are sent into the company! engineers "rethe conduct'.p£ th|e t men ,n are, manifestly unfair, for the siinpjd reason that' they arel taken ex'parte, the' alleged Aelinquehts Wviog flo of, refutirig or defending from charges' levelled against them. ( ..., \ t 1 Only quite recently,two .xnjshJ on board a certain vessel settled,fytljhteregco in the good old-fashioned style, i %th ,werp prdinptly, '*Backed,"'butohe has reason,tpassnmjs that his scrvico3are no longer required, white the ' other was given a hiUet' withirj four days'": over the heads of woUjbehaved men wp!o , have been out of employment two or three months through no fault of their own/ Comment is needless.—l am, etcj, Post-captain.

Dunedin, December 13.