LASCAR MANNED SHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 140, 22 September 1910, Page 5

LASCAR MANNED SHIPS.

PROTESTS OF SEAMEN'S UNION. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference of the Executive Council of the Australasian Federated Seamen's Union occupied pretty well the whole of to-day discussing the invasion of Lascar-manned ships into intercolonial trade. As a result the conference resolved that in the interests of the national life of the Dominion the Government be requested to legislate (a) to so amend the Shipping and Seamen's Act that all ships, irrespective, of where registered or owned, engaged in coastal or intercolonial or South Pacific Island trade, shall be compelled to observe the industrial conditions and rates of wages as are observed and paid' by ships owned in the Dominion; or (c) to subsidise all local or Australian companies operating in intercolonial trade to conform to Australasian industrial conditions; or (c) to tax passengers and freights carried by alien manned vessels, so that they do not compete unfairly with Australasian vessels; or (d) failing that, to so tax passengers and freight carried by ships not observing industrial conditions and rates of wages of New Zealand, sufficient to subsidise New Zealand shipowners for loss sustained by such unfair competition.

>'_ It was decided to ask the Prime Minister and the Minister of Marine to receive a deputation of the conference to place these matters before them with a request for legislation this session to cope with the matter.

Messrs. Poole, McLaren and Laurenson, M's.P., are to ;be asked to introduce the deputation, and many members of the House are to be asked to accompany it.