SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE
WORKING HOURS ON SHIPS. Rome, June 2G. At the Shipping Conference at Genoa, Mr. Movey, for the Seamen and Firemen's Union, moved an amendment to tho draft convention to restrict working hours aboard ships to eight hours a day and 48 hours a week. A delegate of the Shipping Federation opposed the amendment as it was inspired by insular ideas. Mr. Burke, an Australian delegate, supporting tho amendment, declared that hours in tropical countries should bo reduced to 6ix a day. The amendment was rejected by 16 votes to 14. Mr. Uurk« proposed thalt tho seamen should leave the conference, alleging that the Government delegates and shipowners were against the seamen.
Mr. Movey protested that the Government delegates wero voting contrary to the spirit of the Peace Treaty. French seamen urged tho conference to continue, in the hope of accomplishing something. Mr. Burke thereupon withdrew his proposal. The conference decided that no boys under fourteen should be employed on ships.—Router.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 235, 29 June 1920, Page 5
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162SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 235, 29 June 1920, Page 5
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