SHIPPING AND SEAMEN'S ACT.
AN IMPORTANT CASE. [From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. Nothing that has occurred since the passing of the -Shipping and Seamen’s Act has given that measure quite such a glorifies tion as the verdict given by Dr M’Arthur yesterday in the Waikato case. It has shown that a seaman or fireman with a just grievance can drag his ship back to port and defy the captain, officers and owners,, and all the lawyers they like to employ. The ship had not the right number of firemen, nc-r the right kind, as required by law r , and as the ship’s authorities refused to supply other hands, four firemen, who objected, refused' duty, and they ordered the captain to prosecute them therefor, intimating that they would stoke him back to port, but if he wished to go anywhere else there would be no stoking from them. The might of the quarter-deck collapsed, put back from beyond the Heads,/ had the men locked up all Sunddy, and 'went into Court, vowing and asking for vengeance, only to find himself brought to nought and his case against the men dismissed. The seafaring people think the Act a real protection," and declare that poor old Plimsol will turn for joy in his honoured grave.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12430, 20 February 1901, Page 5
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213SHIPPING AND SEAMEN'S ACT. Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12430, 20 February 1901, Page 5
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