PEACE TREATY
(Reuter’s Telegram.) SHIPPING CONFERENCE. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) ROME, June 26.
At the Shipping Conference at Genoa, Mr Movey, (Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union) moved an Amendment to the draft' 1 convention : restricting working hour's aboard 1 ship to eight daily and forty-eight weekly. Delegates from the Shipping Federation opposed ftp; amtmd mpnfc as jpspjrgd l»if Insulin- ideas, pujiko ,(lifi Australian delegate, in supporting the amendment declared the hours il l tropical countries should be reduced to six daily. The amendment WAS rejected by 16 tq 14, Burke fhen proposed that the seamen leave the Conference alleging the Government delegates and shipowners were against the spamem Mpvey protested that the Government dpiewates were voting contrary to the up{ rit of the Peace Treaty. French seamen urged the Conference to continue jn tbe hope of accomplishing something. Rnrke thereupon withdrew ids P r °- posal and the Conference decided tliat no boys tinker fourteen be employed on ships/*
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1920, Page 3
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159PEACE TREATY Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1920, Page 3
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