UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 74, 17 March 1908, Page 2

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY.

INCREASING WAGES OP THEIR

STAFF

Per Press Association,

Wellington", Holiday. As the result of the recent conference between the managing director of the Union Company (Sir James .Mills) and delegates of tliu Infinite of Marine I'.ngmecrs, iM . agreement has been drawn up and ratilicd. The principal (m imvs "I I lie concession are I hat chief engineers ol the company's ikct are to leeeive from .t2l lo .C3U per niontli, according to the class of vessel and the Hade m which they are engaged; second engineers from tit; to X2»; third en.Hi to .tIJ. \ ictuallinj. allowances for engineers awaiting orders ashore , r , placed on a mole Ijl.eral scale s'i,.| pn.vis to be allowed to all engineers"; i capacitated by illness. Chief tiud second engineers engaged in specially strenuous trades have been promised double the present holidays. A verv satisfactoi T schedule of pay has been* arranged for all engineers working ashore for the company when their ships are laid up. I'ree transit has been granted to the families ell eels of engineers who are desirous of moving their homes when transferred front one trade to another. A scheme has neen arranged for relieving the chief engineers from turning out at all the stopping-places on the Wel-liiigton-Victun-Molson service, which involved exceedingly unsettled hours of rest for the chief engineer. The promotion of juniors had been placed upon a systematic | Pl „ is . Tho ~„nii u, i laV( , obtained concessions aggregating, it is estimated, about 'JSilllO a year. " |