THAT RISE FOR SAILORMEN.
WHO FOOTS THE BILL? It is practically certain that as a result of the increased wages granted to seamen on ships engaged in the New Zealand coastwiso trade there will bo an increase in fares and freights. Probably however nothing will be done in this direction until next year. The understanding arrived at by the seamen and their employers is that a final agreement shall bo come to at a conference to bo held after the projected Australian award lias been issued. It is assumed that faro and freight schedules will bo amended afterwards. Representatives of the shipping interest who were approached yesterday wcro decidedly reticent upon the subject. Mr. C. Jones, local manager of the HuddaTt, Parker Company, declined to say anything, save that ho considered the question premature. Mr. W. A. Kennedy, local manager of tho Union Company, sail that the matter of amended fares and freights had not yet been considered by his firm. Ho. added, however, that ho had heard other shipowners express the. opinion that both fares and freights must bo increased. Somebody would have to pay for tho increased outlay in wages.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 6
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192THAT RISE FOR SAILORMEN. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 6
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