MINERS AND SEAMEN.

Grey River Argus, 10 January 1928, Page 3

MINERS AND SEAMEN.

Preparing New Demands. FOR WAGES AND CONDITIONS. The Industrial Agreements under which the Coal-miners and Seamen of New Zealand are. producing surplus profits for masters, expire within the next few months, and the miners and seamen’s organisations will soon be drawing up and discussing their proposals for new agreements. Ther6 is no reason at all why all round improvements in regard to wages and conditions should not be striven for and obtained. Under ground workers (excluded from sunlight and fresh air, with death lurking near all the time; and seamen whose living conditions in the fo’castle are generally speaking a positive disgrace, are entitled to far more of what they produce than they so far, what they produce than they have up to the present been able to extract. There is no r ason at all why the closest collaboration and contact should not be made between the miners’ and Seamen’s Organisations with a vi?w to arriving at a policy and programme which would mean much added economic power when the Employers art* met in conference..