SEAMEN'S UNION OFFICIALS IN TROUBLE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15341, 2 October 1917, Page 5

SEAMEN'S UNION OFFICIALS IN TROUBLE.

ALLEGED INCITING OF - SEDITIOUS STRIKE. f (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 2. ■ Thomas Young, secretary, an6PFrederick Howell, assistant secretary of the Seamen’s Union, were'charged a at the Magistrate's Court with ing a seditious strike and conspiring to procure a seditious 1 strike., Counsel for the Crown said theft when the Seamen’s Union entered.' into an agreement as to working, conditions last March, Young admitted that it would be unnecessary to : have more than one man on de£k, with ah officer, during eacli watch. On the 4th September the Union subrSTlted contentions to the' em-~ ployers regarding the interpretation of the agreement, but did not raise *• the question of an extra deck hand. The employers asked the Union to. submit a friendly caste for the Arbitration. Court, but Young refused* • saying they would not. be bound by any decision of that Court, and that they had other means of getting what they.wanted, , Young here interjected: “That'is not correct!” f -

Counsel, ‘continuing, said that on the 7th September Howell read to " the seamen a resolution passed by the Union, exhorting them not to/go to sea without an extra deck baud on the watch. The men themselves weio. not anxious to strike, as under the new agreement they were earning from £2O to £25 per month. ‘ The hearing of the evidence-is proceeding.