THE SEAMEN'S POSITION .
"."■-; '■•:'.' / .-.- ...... r ' ... '«g' . —TT~ :--"; ':'-,. D" c r -I LABJDUR M.P.'S VtEWS. : ;/The .shipping': trouble- was referred . to by Mr. W.. J- Jordan, M.P., in ari.operiair address ; in' Quay Street!, yesterday. The.speaker;said, t he was riot* prepared to express bis: sympathy with .the seamen, 'although ; it -.was their duty .tp. see . that tfio wives and - children did ,• not suffer übduly. He; was: disgusted that ;the Government had; not established: a; court;; or a , ;■; council, •', where -'the..-'whole /position could /be discussed and the relation be-, j tween: capital a.nd labour c6nsidered./The payment/ of large' dividends to far-distant .investors and th e/ cutting ; dowri :of wages "of local' workers; were not .compatible, The" capital invested had to be. safeguarded and-paid, for/ but the compensation, should- be, considered 'and controlled | just as wages were. * ■: j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 8
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133THE SEAMEN'S POSITION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 8
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