AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN
A NEW MOVEMENT (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright • (Australian <& N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY This Day. It is reported that the Committee of Management of the Federated Seamen's Union decided to apply for registration as a trade union under the industrial laws of every State. It is said that the move is being taken with the object of thwarting any attempt on the part of a rival organisation to secure registration in the Federal Arbitration Court. Since the deregistration of the Seamen's Union officials of the Union have been anxious to secure seine method of safeguarding the semnen at present employed under award conditions. With this object in view action was taken by tile Union immediately after new articles for the steamer Monaros crew were signed at Melbourne. Messrs Walsh an t ] O’Neill, of the Victorian branch of the Union, presented the company with a request that it should include in the articles a clause whereby it would he practically bound to conform with the wages conditions provided in the cancelled award. The company refused to agree to the insertion of this clause, and tlie Monaro was he] ( ] up. Eepreseniatives of the shipping companies slate that the Seamen's Union nave no reason to suppose the shipowners intend to alter conditions regarding wages ruling at present .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 7
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214AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 7
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