TROUBLE ON A STEAMER
DISPUTE WITH REGARD TO RATE OF PAY. Received September 23, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, September 23. Trouble has occurred aboard the Union Company's steamer Waitemata, loading at Newcastle, under charter for Manila. Up to the present the crew were paid in accordance with the rate of the New Zealand Arbitration Court award. To-day the men were told that this would not hold good on the trip to Manila, and 24 hours'notice was given that the pay of the seamen and firemen would be reduced. The men thereupon refused to work, alleging th at they understood that they had been engaged for six months at tbe New Zealand rate of pay. They refused to leave the ship, and the aid of the police was then invoked. The men were ordered off by the police, and left the ship.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9603, 24 September 1909, Page 5
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140TROUBLE ON A STEAMER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9603, 24 September 1909, Page 5
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