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SHIPPING DISPUTE ENDS

THE MEN DECIDE TO SIGN ACTION PENDING RESULT OF APPEAL TO COURIj EXCLUSION FROM THE GENERAL ORDER SOUGHT I WELLINGTON, June 17. The dispute between the shipping companies and the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, ended to-day with dramatic suddenness at a meeting this morning. The men decided to sign the new articles which embody the 10 per cent, reduction in wages, pending the result of the application they have filed with the Arbitration Court asking for their exclusion from the Court’s general order. As a result of the men’s decision, the articles are being signed on all the ships affected. Mr E. Kennedy, secretary of the claimed that in the present dispute the employers had gone back on the attitude of their representative at the Arbitration Court, and had endeavoured to maintain that the award was a binding contract of service. Thus, when the men had refused to accept the 10 per cent, reduction in wages, they had been given 24 hours’ notice of dismissal. It looked as if the employers talked one way before the Court and were now talking the reverse way. The shipping companies preferred to make no statement on the position. The Makura sailed at 3.5 p.m. for San Francisco.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 7

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SHIPPING DISPUTE ENDS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 7

SHIPPING DISPUTE ENDS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 7