COOKS AND STEWARDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18657, 13 March 1924, Page 5

COOKS AND STEWARDS.

ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS. MEN'S CASE CONTINUED. : [BX IPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. At to-day's sitting of the Arbitration Coutt Mr. Kennedy continued the presentation of the marine pooks' and stewards' claim for a new award embodying increased wages and improved 1 working : condition!:. ' When a vessel was employed on an excursion or special work, he said, the union was asking that each steward be piiid Is 3d per hour, for the time the ship was so employed, with a minimum payment of 5s in the event of the men being Ordered on board for an excursion and the ship not proceeding. Any steward actually employed at work, while the vessel was in port, either before or after the excursion, should be paid overtime rates for that time. Whenever a. vessel arrived in any port on a~ Sunday or holiday it was^claimed that the stewards should be paid at overtime rates for forking after 9 a.m. Mr. W. G. Smith, for the Union Co., said he would agree to this clause, provided that it applied only to the main ports. . Eventually the clause was passed a* agreed to. It was askiid by the union that where practicable all heavy stores should be slung on to '»he deck or down the hatch of a vessel, ; and that the weight to be carried by any one steward ; should not exceed 601b. The present award laid down a maximum of 701b:, but the Australian award was 601b. Mr. Smith said that a lot of these things could :be settled amicably if Mr. Kennedy would , come to the Union Co. with' the union's grievance*., instead of running to the Labour Department. With the seamen £0 per cent, of their disputes wefe settled in that way and much time and friction were saved. In discussing the union's claim. for preference, Mr. Kennedy said that tifis clause was practically the same as in the old award. . , v , Mr. Smith: You are dropping the clause that the union shall be entitled to preference only so long as it refrains from being ..'implicated in a strike? Mr. Kennedy Yes. We are seeking to" have that dropped. ' - ' Mr. B. H, Hammond; (representinß tne coastal shipping companies) : Why ?. Have | you found th«it it is too : restrictive i ,j Mr. Kennedy went on to claim (J.at the union had never done anything to forfeit the right to preference.

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