DIFFICULTY WITH SEAMEN.
A BIG STRIKE IMMINENT. SEAMEN’S UNION V. SHIP-OWNERS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, yesterday. A strike of all seamen engaged in Australian vessels is imminent. The Northern Steamship Company, of Auckland, is the cause of the difficulty. The Seamen’s Union has discovered that the Ship-owners’ Association has been subsidising the Northern Steamship Company, to enable the latter to resist the claims of the seamen who refused to work its vessels unless their wages were increased. The seamen immediately invited the owners to a conference on the subject The owners, however, declined to confer with them, but suggested that the matter, together with other questions at issue, should be referred to arbitration. This the seamen refused to agree to, fearing that if tie matter were referred to arbitration an attack would be made on the eight hours system, and also on the prevaling rate of wages, and the result is tiat all seamen belonging to the Unioi have been ordered to withdraw from heir vessels by a date to be fixed.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 177, 2 August 1888, Page 3
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170DIFFICULTY WITH SEAMEN. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 177, 2 August 1888, Page 3
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