SEAMEN'S UNION AND GOVERNMENT STEAMERS
QUESTION OF UNION JURISDICTION. •
(United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. . The Federated Seamen's Union recently requested the Minister for Marino to place the crews of the Government steamers Hinemoa, Tutahekai, and "the Amokura under Union jurisdiction so far as warking conditions of seamen andfiremen are concerned. The Minister do- • clined to accede to this request, and the Seamen's .Union Executive passed a' resolution that -the three vessels named "be declared "black," and that deck, stokoholdj and engine-room men employed thereon from November 15th. shall bo considered .working in opposition * to the Union and liable to exclusion or nonadmission as the case may foe. The ships formerly worked under an aefeerosnt between the Government and the Union', but this terminated "in iNovernber, 1913, during tho waterside strike.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 4
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