SEAMEN'S WAGES.
A REDUCTION SOUGHT. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Conciliation Council is hearing the seamen's and firemen's dispute. It was decided that any agreement reached here should be accepted as covering other districts in the Doso that there would be no necessity for the council to set in other centres. The dispute was filed by the employers. There was considerable difference as to wages. The emplovers offered £l3 per calendur month for boatswains, while the workers asked for £l7 10s for a month of thirty days, an increase of £2 6s Sd a month on the old award. For quartermasters the offer was £l2. and the counter demand £l6 10s, an increase of £1 6s Sd. The companies suggested a general reduction in wages of £2 3s 4d. For firemen the offer was £l4, and the demand £ls 15s. It was mentioned that the preference clause had been omitted altogether. The employers' representative said that the reference to stop work meetings had been omitted. The meetings were strongly objected to.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1416, 16 October 1923, Page 5
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173SEAMEN'S WAGES. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1416, 16 October 1923, Page 5
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