SHIP HELD UP
CREW DEMANDS BIGGER TEA RATION BRISBANE, October 21. The New Zealand ship Baltraffic, which has been held up for six days because the crew demanded more tea, left yesterday. The men were not given the extra ration. The crew’s request for 14oz of tea a week compared with the Australian ration of 2oz, was refused last Monday by the rationing director, and the men went on strike. They claimed that they were entitled to the New Zealand scale of 14oz. The Seamen’s Union Secretary said the rationing commission was responsible for the ship being held up. The New Zealand articles stipulated that the crew was not to be rationed in any commodity, and consequently the ship owners, with full knowledge of rationing in Auckland, should have made arrangements for the ship to be completely victualled before she left New Zealand.
The Deputy Commissioner of Rationing said that if the men had been granted extra tea every ship in Australia would have required the same.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 4
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