SEAMEN'S WACES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 964, 14 March 1917, Page 8

SEAMEN'S WACES.

A NEW AGREEMENT, Press Associ'ition. WELLINGTON, March 14. At a special meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Seamen's Union the new agreement with the .shipowners was explained and adopted. General President Donovan stated that in the course of 20 years the union had secured an increase of £5 per month, and in tho past H months had gained an increase of £3 per month. Mr W. T. Young (general secretary) will visit Auckland and explain the conditions to tho seamen there, and will afterwards attend meetings at Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Napier. At all ports steps will be taken to get the shipping companies which have not yet signed the new agreement to sicm.