Crew Claims Extra Wages As War Risk
i Special to “Northern Advocate"! AUCKLAND. This Day. A writ was pinned to the mainmast of a Greek-owned ship now at Auckland yesterday, giving notice that, the crew intended to claim £1342 10/3 in wages from the owners in an action in the Supreme Court of New Zealand in one week. Members of the crew are being paid 70 dollars a month, which includes war risk bonuses, hut have been on strike for several days, demanding an extra 50 per cent for war risk. Says Agreement Invalid Representatives of the crew stated yesterday that they had originally signed on for 70 dollars a month. When at Manila they learned that they would be sailing in dangerous waters, and an agreement was signed with the captain and the Panamanian Consul there last June providing that an extra bonus of 50 per cent would be paid. The vessel is sailing under the Panama flag. The Panamanian consul at Auckland (Senor Quiros y Quiros) said last night that the agreement signed by his country’s consul in Manila was invalid.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1941, Page 7
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