SEAMEN AND UNION COMPANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 2

SEAMEN AND UNION COMPANY

EJECTED FROM THE WAITEMATA. | A CLAIM ITO BE MADE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' , Wellington, Thursday. Apparently the trouble over the dis- ■ charge of the Waitemata's crew at Newcastle is not yet ended. Mr. W T • Vmng, secretary of the Seamen's Union, is going to Lyttelton to-nMit with the men who arrived by the Moana yesterday. .Mr. Young alleges that the men were ejected from tile Waiteinata with the aid of the police, and he further cootends that it was illegal to dispense "'til the men's services at any po.t outside New Zealand. The article's were -u.O 31 last for a period of six months. hi/,. 0 providos " that thl ' wrvicc \i, i,Mi e , '''° m n ," v - pnrt or ' )orts j n the A bli.ilas.an colonies, or any island or >land s in the North o r South Pacif,., ti ailing to and from „ n y succession of voyages, duration of the service not to exceed six m„ n ths, ,„■ Ulltil t , fl t arrival at Lyttelton after the expira ion of that term, the Ne w Zealand Arl™ on Court awarJs i„ respect to seamen shall be deemed part of the agreement where they apply." According to this clause. .Mr Y0u,,,, contends that the men „ere en it led to Proceed to Manila. Tliev lav" not he *.v«, signed off the articles a„ the ■ ??"»?' *?«n legally discharge. if li a contention is right, tlle ? ." da m wages and an allowance for boa and lodging nntil the WaitVmata te turns to Lyttelton. The fa"n 1c Sine Tu-hT H r « marine at Lyttelton and the conrw of gon to be followed wilfV ""Self cjn all 27 men are concerned in the