"BLACK" STATE SHIPS.
UNIONISTS' DEMAND OF THE GOVERNMENT. i By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Federated Seamen's Union recently requested the Minister for Marine to place the crews of the Government steamers Hinemoa, Tutanekai, and Amokura under union jurisdiction, so far as working conditions of seamen and firemen were concerned. The Minister declined to accede to this request, and the Seamen's Union executive have passed a resolution that the three vessels named be declared "black" and that the deck stokehold and engineroom men employed thereon from November 15 (to-day) shall be considered working in opposition to the union, and liable to exclusion or non-admis-sion, as the case may be. The ships formerly -worked under an agreement between the Government and the union, but this terminated in November, 1913, during the watersiders' strike. i
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1916, Page 10
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134"BLACK" STATE SHIPS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1916, Page 10
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