SEAMEN'S WAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 2

SEAMEN'S WAGES.

SUBSTANTIAL- ADVANCES ASKED (Per Press Association.) ah i.- - ''■9™W^-*&*-'di&L ': AH shipping companies havieVnow^ re. ' ceiyed a communication ; f.r6m the Fed- - crated Seamen's Union, asking tf O r acon^ '^ ference as early as possible" M- discuss" ' the «dvisability .of increasing. b« 60 per cent the.wages of/crewW on oversea ■■, vessels, -exclusive of Australian portsl'' and of 25 per oent. on all other,|hinj „ Ihe reason for the demand' is that .thera x has bern a mate Hal; difference vin-tn&t-circumstanoes since the current amee- ■ -' ment made m Mawh of iast^ear ; ''<• llw union sugges^. that-sAbsidiaryaci'tee- v, « ments should-be , made; <- It ; iS mi^, - ing to note that wages have been a£ creased since December, 1915 ■■<'■ bv>^B3" - s pec month, Jn addition^ VhioH^ve^ •: time rates of l s 3d land Is 6d per hour respectively for ships and, c4^ atSS - have been increased' to a 1 flat /rate^o? .&, per .hoar for all .work. Tlie w^es for sailors and i trimmers aveSnow £11 per^month, and< £1S for,.. greasers and