EXTRA STOKERS
THE TOFUA’S Ql/OTA A DISPUTE SETTLED , (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, NoY. 8. "When the crew was being signed on the articles of the steamer Tofua this morning, a dispute arose regarding the number of stokers, and the men refused to sign. The Union demanded that six extra stokers should be signed, thereby increasing the manning scale to that for four boilers instead of only three. The company emphatically denied to accede to the request because in the past the fourth boiler had been used only on the return voyage from Fiji to Auckland, and to cope with the extra firing Fijian firemen had been engaged at Sux-a at award rates. Particulars of the dispute wore telegraphed to the head office of the Seamen’s Union in Wellington, and a reply was received in the afternoon xvhich instructed the men to sign on the x’csscl. The reply was discussed at a meeting of the local union and it was decided to relinquish the demand for extra stokers and to carry out the instructions from Wellington.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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175EXTRA STOKERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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