MAITIME CONFERENCE.
BRITISH OWNERS PROTEST. GENEVA, Friday. Thirty-one countries arc represented by 102 delegates and 152 advisers at the Maritime Conference, called by the League of Nations, to consider, the possibility of applying the Washington Eight Hour Convention to seamen. British shipowners refused to be represented, because they were dissatisfied rvitli the British delegation, Avhich they say is not representative. The only claim of Mr Ben Tillett, who is the British delegate, to act is that he was once a dock labourer. Othei shipowners passed a resolution associating themselves noth the British piotest.
The agenda of the conference includes the regulation of hours of work aboard ship, the promotion of seamen’s welfare in ports, the establishment of a minimum requirements of professional capacity in the case of a captain, a navigating engineer, and officers. Senor Aunos, the Spanish Minister of Labour, was elected president, and Mr Ben Tillett vice-president.-—A. and N.Z. r.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 October 1929, Page 2
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