SERIOUS LABOR CRISIS IMPENDING.
SEAMEN'S UNION AGGRESSIVE
[PBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.]
Sydney, July 30. Should the threatened strike of seamen take place it will be the largest known m the Southern Hemisphere. It is difficult to ascertain the exact facts m consequence of the reticence of the Seamen's Union and Shipowners' Association. The principal cause of the difficulty is the Northern Steam Company, Auckland. The seamen having discovered that the Ship Owners' Association had subsidised and assisted the Northern Company, called a Conference of delegates to consider the matter. They were determined to bring affairs to a crisis, and invited owners to confer for the purpose of settling the dispute; The latter declined, but at the same time expressed their readiness to refer to arbitration certain matters which had been at issue for some time past. Subsequently it appears the owners agreed to a conference on the Northern Company's dispute, two questions of overtime and over-manning, and made a proposal that time for time should be allowed, eight hours' work only m the twenty-four, for the ordinary rate of pay. The latter proposal led the seamen to suspect an attack on the eight hours system and prevailing rate of wages, and they in* tended to decline arbitration including these points, holding the owners responsible for the continuance of the strike against the Northern Company. The owners denied having any designs either upon hours or wages, but the seamen persisted m their suspicion, and gave notice to all unionists to withdraw from their vessels on the date hereafter to be fixed.
At a 'meeting of consignees it was decided to assist the captain of the Mariposa to unload that vessel if no immediate settlement of the difficulty wis attained.
The owners of the Gibb line of steamers have decided to withdraw the Chinese portions of the crews of their vessels as soon as crews can be obtained from England,
There is a depression m coal shares m consequence of the probability of ft seamen's strike.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 31 July 1888, Page 2
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333SERIOUS LABOR CRISIS IMPENDING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 31 July 1888, Page 2
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