STERN DISCIPLINE.
EXERCISED BY UNION. OVER ITS MEMBERS. (Received Thursday, 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Illustrating the stern discipline exercised by the Seamen’s Union over its members, the bo’sun of one of the Commonwealth steamers was charged at a meeting with carrying tales about certain happenings in the forecastle to the mate. The bo'sun offered an explanation, but the meeting adjudged him guilty, and ordered him to give 24 hours’ notice of his intention to leave the vessel; also not to seek re-employment in the Commonwealth Line for 12 months. . It is understood that the bo’sun will undertake to carry out the dictates ot the Union.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1927, Page 5
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106STERN DISCIPLINE. Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1927, Page 5
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