STILL HELD UP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 June 1939, Page 3

STILL HELD UP

MOTOR-VESSEL CAPE HORN MEN EXPECT WARRANTS FOR ARREST I Cnited I‘ipm Association! CHRISTCHURCH. 28th June. The deadlock between certain members of th* crew of the Union Steam Ship Company’s chartered motorvessel Cape Horn and their employers

continued to-day and the ship lay idle ; at Lyttelton during the morning. # It j is understood that the men. 12 of whom | are staying in Christchurch, expect that | the master of the vessel. Captain Me- ; Kenzie. will seek the issue of warrants for their arrest shortly, and they will ! welcome some definite move, such as ; their arrest, so that they may air their j grievances. Yesterday the men had not returned i to the ship, and during the day Cap- ’ tain McKenize was in touch with them j asking them to resume their duties. They replied, however, that they would r.ot do so till theTfr previous demands were met. These would involve the ship being placed under New Zealand articles while engaged in the Pacific Coast-New Zealand-Australian trade instead of English articles as at present, under which the rates of .-pay for firerneri and seamen are about half of those received on vessels on New Zealand articles.