“BLACK” STATE SHIPS.
UNIONIST DEMAND REFUSED. Per Press Association. . ’Wellington, November 15. The Federated Seamen's Union cenily requested the Minister :<n Marine to place the crews of the Gov eminent steamers Hinemoa, Intanekai, and Amokura under union .pnisdietion, so far as working conditions of seamen and firemen were concerned. The Minister declined to accede to (his request, and the Seamen's Union executive have passed a resolution that the three vessels named he declared ‘black” and that (lie dock stokehold and engine-room men employed thereon from November 15 (to-day) shall he considered working in opposition to the union, and liable to exclusion or non-admission, as the case may he. The ships formerly worked under an agreement: between the Government and the Union, hut this terminated in November, 1913. during the watersiders’ strike.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 16 November 1916, Page 3
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131“BLACK” STATE SHIPS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 16 November 1916, Page 3
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