SEAMEN’S WAGES
REDUCTION IN BRITAIN. ■ DECISION REACHED AFTER FRIENDLY CONFERENCE. (Received April 24, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The conference of the Maritime Board has resumed consideration of the proposal to reduce wages. After a long friendly discussion the seafarers’ representatives agreed to recommend their constituents to accept the following terms which the shipowners’ representatives accepted, namely:—From May 6th, wages of officers and men to be reduced by £2 10s par month on monthly pay boats, and 8s 7d per week on weekly pay boats. It was further agreed that rates for overtime and runs bo revised by the various panels within the month, and it was* also agreed to set np a special committee of nine, representing the seafarers and nine representing the shipowners to examine the practicability of framing a scheme for the permanent regulation of wages on an agreed basis.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10883, 25 April 1921, Page 5
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