OUTSIDE AWARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 9

OUTSIDE AWARD.

SEAMEN’S WAGES ON MAUI POMARE, LOWER- MONEY AND LONGER HOURS. PREMIER EXPLAINS POSITION. SEATRAINING FOR ISLANDERS. (Press Association.! WELLINGTON. Nov. 10- , A statement setting out the wages paid on the Maui Pomare, and comparing them with the wages provided for in the agreement between the New Zealand Seamen’s Union and the Shipowners’ Federation, has been forwarded to the Post by the Seamen’s Union. According to the. statement, the wages on the Maui Pom are are as .follows, the agreement rates tfebig shown in parentheses: Boatswain. £lO month (£l6 4s); quartermaster, £8 (£ls 4s); day man. £lO (£ls 4s); ordinary seaman, not given (£lO 9s); boy, £3 (£5) ; greaser, £8 (£l7). • ‘ It (is further stated that the hours on. the- MaUi Poma-re range from eight to twelve a day, with overtime without payment, as against eight hours per day with special payment for overtime provided under the agreement.

Tlio Seamen’s Union has also forwarded a copy of a letter addressed by Mr. Coates to Mr. Cook, president of the Alliance of Labor, in reference to a deputation which waited on him last June in regard to the .Maui Poniare. in which Mr. Coates said (the Government liad no intention of utilising the Maui • Pomare as a means of reducing the existing standards of seamen’s wages, or the general conditions now enjoyed by seamen employed tn these waters, and pointed out.’that the desire of the G'c-vemment was that the Islanders should bo given an opportunity on the Maui Pomare for sea-training. The letter concluded that the Government must reserve • that, right. of 'prohibiting the crew from becoming members of various unions, this being a condition that applies to other branches of the Civil Service where State services are concerned.