DRUNKEN FIREMEN
FINED BY UNION FOR DELAYING STEAMER. Press Association. DUNEDIN, October 12. By direction of the executive of the Federated Seamen’s Union, the secretary (Mr W. T. Young) states that early this month it was reported to, him that six firemen on a steamer had been drunk and incapable of doing any work for one day. The next day five were still in the same condition, and one had to be invalided ashore through sickness.’ As a result the vessel was delayed nearly a day. The executive of the union unanimously resolved to fine each man £5, and if the money is unpaid fourteen days after the return of the vessel to a New Zealand port tilie men will be expelled from the anion.
New rules Lave been registered under the Arbitration Act to, protect the members of the union against the misdeeds of a small percentage of members.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9173, 13 October 1915, Page 3
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