Marine Engineers

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 2

Marine Engineers

Claims agains* the shipowners by the" Marine Engineers' Institute, which 'came before the Arbitration Court in Wellington last ■Tuesday were as fOl- '; The Institute claimed £36/6/- per month, for a ch/'fef engineer of a vessel under 35 n.h.p., £37/18/- for a chief in a vessel of 35 to 50 horsepower, from 50 to 100 horse-power £40/5/-; 483/3/-. laud £30, for first, second and third engineers. It asked for overtime for chief engineers, for £1 par trip .up to 150 ..miles, and £2 per trip over 150 miles for steamers with freoaers working and running. The time oS duty fa. port or at sea, ■«r partly in port trad partly at sea, asked the Institute, except in 'the case vi vessels carrying less than three engineers, should not exceed elgnt hours per daj? without payment of ovortim-e, exclusive fit meal hours. The hours of duty in port to bo betv/e'en 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. In IJhe case of vessels carrying two engineers only, the time of duly not. without extra payment, to exceed -twelve hours per diiy at sea or fifty-s'-x hours per tveeic in port, and at se>a combined, in the case of. vessels carrying only one engineer, the hours of duty in port not to exceed eight hours without extra payment, and four hours on the days of arrival, excepting where the engineer, was' required for shifting ship : !>er,w»'C3! ? am. and 5 .Notwithstanding thM, the hours of duty In port on Saturday to terminate at hoon # provided that the ship was in port and would remain there until midnight. The Institutfc asked for overtime, other than over the time cf duty at the rate .of time and a half, with a minimum of 3/6 i>er hour. The rate per hour to be ascertained by dividing the monthly rate l>y j>oo plus lh. For .shifting ship a similar rate was asked, with a minimum payment of oiie hour, warming up the same rate Was tasked* again. For ship-keeping'for all or part of the hours between 5 p.m. and 7 a.nt., an engineer to be entitled to the sum of 17/iJ.. Engineers were not to Dβ required to keep watches in yo.-t unless tiie stay were less than twelve hours, or except a time not exceeding six hours before the departure of a vessel. In lieu of Sunday and holidays every engineer to be en!.illc<l to b& absent from his vessel in yoi*t for five (toys each calander ■mouth, and t v >v o of those days to be given h?m in his heme port, or added to his annual holidays. The remaining three clays to be given at a main port on Sundays and holidays, and any days i\pt given to be paid for at overtime- rates. After twelve months' service they nskea for twenty-one days leave of absence for chief engineers and fourteen days for all other eng'meers. The attitude of the bosses was that these demands were "most inopportune. , *