SEAMEN'S WAGES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14870, 19 September 1918, Page 6

SEAMEN'S WAGES.

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Dunsdin, Sept. 18. Ali t'io .siiip-.-.ing companies liave tiov/ rcct'iyod a communication from the Federated Seamen's Union asking for a conference- at as'early a date'as pos-sil-io to discuss the advisability of increasing by 50 per cent the wages of trie crews on overseas ves.s( i!.>. exclusive of Australian ports, and by 2o po'r cent, on other ships. The reas-on. given for the domaiifl is that there has been a v-'na csrial differonco in cirrurnstaiices since tiio current agreement. iva»s made -in March of last year. The Seamen's Union suggests that Subsidiary agreements should bo made.