DOMINION NEWS.
THE SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 23. The hearing of the shipping dispute was continued in the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr. William Rogers, manager of the Anchor Line, admitted to Mr. Young that proposals for -a reduction were made in March, since when the rates of pay had been increased. The business was then all right, but a falD ing off and a reduction in freights was anticipated. Freights had. been reduced on sheep, cattle and manures. Mr. Young, representing the Seamen’s Federation, intimated his intention to deal with the financial position of the companies engaged in shipping. Mr. Justice Frazer sdid that, unless there was a plea of bankruptcy or something of the kind, the court was only concerned with the issue what were fair rates of pay and conditions for the nature of the work done, What the shipping companies were bringing forward was not so much poverty’or financial stress as slackness of trade, which was general throughout the world.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 7
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166DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 7
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