LABOR MATTERS.
Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. A case, the lirst of the kind to come before a Court in the Dominion, is to lie heard shortly. At the institgation ot' the Seamen's Union, the master of a coastal steamer is to be prosecuted by the llariue Department for employing liremen to grease the engines, in contravention of the Shipping Act of 1003, section 51 of which stipulates that a seaman who is carried in accordance with the manning scale shall not, except in case of emergency, be employed in a capacity other than that for which he was engaged.
The Painters' Union and Federated Seamen's Union nominate Mr. McCullougli aud Mr. Young as respectively workers' representative and deputy on the Arbitration Court.
At a meeting of the Australasian Federated Seamen's Union it was alleged that the captain of a steamer had induced two firemen to desert from a vessel in a Southern port and sign articles 011 his ship, and that the agent of a certain company and a police constable aided him. The secretary of the union says the matter is being represented to the proper authorities.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 31 October 1907, Page 2
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189LABOR MATTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 31 October 1907, Page 2
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