MOERAKI’S CREW

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 5

MOERAKI’S CREW

EXTRA PAY DEMANDED. DEPUTATION TO UNTON CO. R'EQUEST- REFUSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 14, 10.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 14. Some excitement was caused at the Union Steamship Company s offices when thirty-four men, members of the crew of the Mocnaki, who nere discharged in accordance with tlie order of the Court, entered the outer office and demanded to see the manger. Previously the men had attended al the Mercantile Marine office, where they should have been paid off, but refused to accent the money because the pay sheet showed only the amount due to them from the Ist to the 11th of February. They claimed that the record of -ail the wages earned by them since they joined the, vessel should have been shown on the r>av sheet.

After marching to the Union Steamship Co.’s offices, the spokesman interviewed a responsible official of the company, and demanded that, the m.t'n he paid, notwithstanding that the men knew they could not be paid off except in the, presence of the shipping master. Money was refused. The company’s solicitor arrived and argued wtih the men. Then a body of police came on the scene and ordered the men out. They left quietly, hut it is understood they intend to renew the claim to-day.