SHIPPING WAR
MORE STEAMERS TIE UP OWNERS’ DEMANDS OPPOSED SYDNEY, July 23. The Burns, Philp Island steamer Makambo has joined the idle fleet, the iseamen refusing to man the vessel, j The Union Company’s Kokiri at Sydney and the Ngatoro at Hobiart are | also held up. I The consensus of opinion among the ■ seamen seems to be that the owners’ ,proposals will have to be modified bejfore they will be approved by the rank I and file of the union. The proposals meeting with most opposition hre those (dealing with the abolition of stop work 'meetings, holiday pay and the return :to home ports of discharged seamen.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19366, 24 July 1925, Page 11
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107SHIPPING WAR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19366, 24 July 1925, Page 11
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