FEDERATED SEAMEN.

Gisborne Times, 18 October 1906, Page 2

FEDERATED SEAMEN.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night. Tho following resolution has been adopted by tho New Zealand Federal Oounoil of the Australasian Federated Seamen’s UnioD, now sitting in Wellington: —“That in view of the Australian steamship owners having increased tho wages of seamen and firemen by tan shil

logs a month, which places (ha Austrian ratos ten shillings above those ruling in New Zealand, and believing also that the steamship owners of this colony aro in a bettor position to oonoede an increase, lira Council be requested to forward commuoicationa to the steamship owners in New Zealand, asking them to voluntutily grant an additional ten shillings a month to seamon employed in the coastal and international trade, or as an alternative t) meet this Council in conference to discuss I the subject.” Toe Conference pa'S)d a resolution endorsing the protests mods by the WoK liogton, Auckland, and Dunedin branches again, t the sc ins a’t nation paid io the evidtnes adduced by the Onion in the recent dispute with the steam>bip owners, OEprtssiog strong disapproval of (be i.j justice done to the mc-mbars of tho Uoion, aud regrot that a Court of Arbitration iu Now Zealand could see its way consistent with justice aud equity to refuse to New Zealand seamon tbo iccroase of wages and other important ocneessions whioh have been voluutarily oonooded by ship* owners of Austra’ia, whore the conditions of shipping are loss favorable to the employers than they aro in New Z aland. The Counoil also decided to direct public attention to tbo foot that tho Court has seen fit to place a large body of New Zealand workers in a position considerably btlovf that of similar workers in Australia,