THE SYDNEY SERVICE
ATI'ITUDH OF 'J'JIE SKAME.N. . . Sydney, December 2(1. It is staled that' the seamen'* attitude regarding Now Zealand shipping is that the men have offered to go at ordinary 'wages if tho owners would provide for the wives and families of men contracting influenza. The owners declined, and said it paid them bettor to lay the vessels up. Tho men tlieu offered to take the risk if they were paid XI a day.— Press Assn CKI3WS WANT LIVING QUARTER'S ON DECK. Jlr. W. T. Young, general secretary of the .Xpw Zealand .Seamen's Union, has icceivcd a cable message from the secretary iif the New South Wales branch to the effect that a mcotiug of members on Monday nigh! last passed o resolution (bit they would nina tho Moerald and Manuka if the crew wero given living quarters on deck. The Wellinj?ton exeeulivo of tho union lu'.s endorsed this action. ■ . . . :.•: ■ ■'■ r': No definite word of the sailing of the I Moornki and Stamika. lio's y«t been received by the Uuiou Ccuipuu'y. >
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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172THE SYDNEY SERVICE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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