THE REDUCTION OF SAMEN'S WAGES.
[BY telkuk.pm.—vr.r.ss aviation.
Wellington, Wednesday. I'm: opinion if members o'-ho local Seamen's Union who are etrKved by the Union Compasy, is not Honourable to the 11 reduction announced / the company, but they strongly object to compulsory joining of the company' benefit society. The reduction was lot .together without anticipation, an 1 a. cirJ.tr was issued to the members of tlietJni-». the result being that it was decide r£ept the reduction of id, it compulsory j<">"£ °* tho *'Ciety mentioned is not mt.ced. It is piobable that a conference -ill'" arranged with the Union Company'/ offals, r xception is taken to the last pi'agraph of the Cnton Company's ciroar, the opinion ot the men being that in he event oi a revival of trade the pr j rate ot wages be reinstated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9269, 3 August 1893, Page 5
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