SHIP'S FIREMEN AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2296, 2 November 1914, Page 8

SHIP'S FIREMEN AGAIN

■'- V :::■:.: f—___4__J_ - ■--'::; : - : CAUSE TROUBLE ON ANOTHER ■."•■V' : ' v '" /STEAMER. '.' '.. '■~'; ■.. ; Once again firemen on one of the Union Company's steamers have caused trouble l to their employers. , Recently those engaged in the Mahenb's'! stolcehold'refused' to go to sea in the ship. In! consequence she .has been tied up at .Sydney, for : some weeks. Just the '■ other day firemen were; responsbile for delaying: the same.company's ■ Maitai;!at Wellington"'froni Friday till Monday. This time if is the stokehold:, workers : ori;;board..theicollier Waitomo who,have been: responsible for holding the vessel up..''.; : . ;;:.;;: v .,.'■' ■ r." -..-.', . ',;, t On':.Saturday the vessel-., in'question . changed.artiole's, and all , hands ''signed off in accordance with the usual custbm. When the firemen came'to.sign on again they,;ref.use.(i;to do so; till. the -(Union. Compaiiy had'appointed three extrii.fire- ■ men.: According to;'the Act the Wai'tbmo ;. is : .supppsedv^to,carry a : sis.firdinen'and.'three trimmers. ,iTwo firemen and-one-trimmer wore on wa"tch at a time, and now tlie stokehold; crew has made a demand for three firemen 'and a trimmer to be on watch. It is; . stated tliat up till Saturday morning ■ no, complaint, bad been received from' the men,.and it when-- ; the vessel'was on the point of. sailing•'that they endeavoured to gain their ends' by holding her-Tip. The Waitomo has been chartered lo proceed- from Wellington to Newcastle to load coal for the East, and the nien allege that when they reach' the Tropic the work will beJtoo much'for .the number required by.the Act.:■'..The Waitomo was expected..' to clear Wellington early yesterday morning, but >she is still-, tied up at Clyde .Quay Wharf awaiting results. / ;;'