COAL AND PHOSPHATES.
USE OF FOREIGN VESSELS.
PROTEST BY SEAMEN’S UNION. WELLINGTON, March 6. At the monthly stop-work meeting of the Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand held to-day the following resolution was unanimously carried in connection with the Nauru Island trade and the Newcastle coal trade :— “ That we receive with dismay the report of our representative who waited mt the Prime Minister on February 23 in reference to the Nauru phosphate trade and the Australian coal trade. We consider that the policy of the Government in importing phosphate and coal in foreign vessels while the seamen of New Zealand are unemployed is against the best interests of the seafarers particularly and the country generally. Whilst we endorse the utilisation of New Zealand coal and products within New Zealand where practicable, we strongly submit that where coal and other commodities are imported at the request or order of the Government this trade should be given to companies employing New Zealand seamen paying the wages and observing the conditions of this country.’’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 6
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