THE CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
SEAMEN TO CONSIDER OWNERS’ TERMS Received July 21, 10.55 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 21. The long-awaited conference between representatives of the shipowners and the disaffected maritime, unions sat for about two hours to-day. It then adjourned to a date to be fixed to enable the seamen to consider the owners’ terms. The owners demanded that job control be abandoned; that the present system of engaging men be abandoned; that fortnightly payments and fitopwork meetings be abandoned; that men be picked up at ships’ sides outside picking-up times at the marine office; that a conciliation board be appointed to sit in Melbourne to settle disputes. These objects to be achieved by filtering certain clauses in the old award, the undertaking that the clauses of the altered awtard will be observed to be inserted in the articles. Ratos of pay of the old award to be paid. The only outstanding points appear to be a desire on the part, of the owners that they be relieved from the anxieties and uncertainties which have long hampered them through the tyrannies of job control, and, on the part of the seamen, that they secure all the fidvantages they enjoyed under the forfeited Arbitration Court award.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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203THE CONFERENCE ADJOURNS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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