EIGHT-HOUR DAY AT SEA

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 9

EIGHT-HOUR DAY AT SEA

CONFERENCE OF NATIONS EX-DOCK WORKER DELEGATE OWNERS STANDING ALOOF By Tolcgr-a.ph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 11, 9.35 p.m. Geneva, Oct.' 10.:’ Thirty-one countries are represented by 102 delegates and 152 advisers at a maritime conference called by the League of Nations to consider the possibility of applying the Washington eighthour convention to seamen. ■ British shipowners have 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 the British delegate, to act is that he was once a dock labourer. Other shipowners have associated themselves with the British protest. The agenda of the conference includes the regulation of the hours of work ■ aboard ship, the promotion of seamen’s welfare, the establishment of ja minimum requirement of professional capacity in the case of captain, navigating engineer and officers. Dr. Eduardo Aunos, Spanish Minister of Labour, has been elected president and Mr. Tillett vice-president.