WAGES OF SHIPS’ OFFICERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143763, 11 April 1912, Page 3

WAGES OF SHIPS’ OFFICERS.

AWARD OF FEDERAL COURT. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Receiver! April 11, 9.35 a.ni.l MELBOURNE, April 11. The Federal Arbitration Court award in the case of the Merchant Service Guild against the steamship owners provides for an all round increase in the. wages of captains and officers on inter-State passenger and cargo vessels, an eight-hour day, overtime payment, increased holidays, one month’s notice or pay after throe months’ service when officers’ articles arc expiring. The president reserved further consideration of the question whether the award should apply, or to what extent, to the boats of the Union Company, Huddart Parker’s and a number of other companies trading outside Australia. The award proposed a currency of five years operating from May 1. The Guild expresses satisfaction at the award. The shipowners in Sydney question the power of the Court to deal with vessels trading within one State only and predict that tho 'iicreased coat involved will-be disastrous to th,e shipping trade, which will bo driven into tho hands of the big foreign companies, otherwise all the increases must be passed on to tho public, as shipowners cannot bear them.