SEAMEN’S HOURS
CONGRESS AT GENEVA BRITISH SHIPOWNERS NOT REPRESENTED OBJECTION TO DELEGATION (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright) (Rec. 8.55 p.m.) Geneva, October 10. Thirty-one countries are represented by 102 delegates and 152 advisers at the Maritime Conference called by the League of Nations to consider the possibility of applying the Washington Eight Hour Convention to seamen. British shipowners refused to be represented because they are dissatisfied with the British delegation which, they say, is not representative. The only claim of Mr Ben Tillett, who is a British delegate, to act is that he was once a dock labourer. Other shipowners passed a resolution associating themselves with the British protest. The agenda of the conference includes regulation of hours of work aboard ship, promotion of seamen’s welfare in ports, and the establishment of a minimum requirement of professional capacity in the case of captains; navigating engineers and officers. Senor Aunos Perez, the Spanish Minister of Labour, was elected president, and Mr Ben Tillett vice-president.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20903, 12 October 1929, Page 7
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