GERMAN CREWS ON STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19066, 11 January 1924, Page 7

GERMAN CREWS ON STRIKE

DEMAND FOR BRITISH RATES OF PAY. PICKETING AT HULL. Pm* Association— By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, January 9. The German steamer which was held up at the Victoria Docks owing to the crew striking for British rates of pay is the Hamburg- Amerika liner Frankewald, which arrived on December 25. The Glacials of the new Stevedores and LighterSs Union visited the Frankenwald today to ascertain whether the members of the union were handling the cargo, in order to call them out immediately -t they were doing so. They retired when they found that the cargo handlers belonged to the Transport Mothers Umon. German pickets at Hull awaited .he ar rival of the steamer Herbert hischer fro Germany, and induced the crew of ninetcGTi to ioin the strike. As the result of negotiations between the Seamen and Firemen s Union at Hull aud the” agents of the German steamer Neptune, the latter’s agents agreed to 4ny the crew the British maritime rate asMrom January 0, and accepted all the conditions of the Maritime Board.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A message which appeared on Wednesday morning stated: The cr ®y s H ~ , German steamers have struck secure the English rates of pay. ihe roaster of one vessel agreed to a demand SLttVie men should henceforth receive ISOs instead of 60s a month. The strikers approached the local officials of the National Sailors’ Union, who communicated with Mr Havelock Wilson. The “tor instructed the union that the strikers should be supported. Owing to tie immigration laws the s nkers must return to their vessels rvi-htiy, Hut they are being fed by the union officials.