SEAMEN'S MOVE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 11

SEAMEN'S MOVE.

♦ STATE REGISTRATION. MELBOURNE BOAT HELD UP. (BY CABLE— I-lIESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN- ASD X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'.) SYDNEY, June 13. It is reported that tho Management Committee of the Federated Seamen's Union has decided to apply for registration as a trade union under the industrial laws of every State. It is said that the move is being taken with the object of thwarting any attempt on the part of a rival organisation to secure registration in the Federal Arbitration Court. Since the deregistration of the Seamen's Union, officials of the union have been anxious to secure some method of safeguarding seamen at present em.ployed under award conditions.. With this object in view, action will bo taken by the union. Immediately after new articles for the steamer Monaro's crew had been signed at Melbourne, Messrs Tom Walsh and O'Neill, of tho Victorian union, presented the Melbourne S.S. Company with a request that it should include "in the articles a clause by which it would be practically bound to conform with tho wages and conditions provided in the cancelled award. _ The company refused to agree to the insertion of this clause, and tho Monaro was held up. Representatives of the shipping companies state that the Seamen's Union have no reason to suppose that shipowners intend to alter the conditions or wages ruling at present.