CHEAP COLOURED LABOUR
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 16. The Auckland Sailors' Union is wiring to the Premier nnd to Mr Fisher, the prospeetjva Federal Premier, asking them to legislate against the employment of cheap coloured labour on a steamer trading between Australia and New Zealand. 1 'J, This is directed against the P. and 0. Company, which is stated pays Lascars 25s a month against £7 to seamen and £9 to stokers paid by the Union Company and the Hud-dart-Parker Company, with which it is in direct competition. The Morea which left here tor Sydney on Wednesday" carried two hundred,, passen- '; grs, who would otherwise have travelled by the ordinary intercolonial ; steamers, if it is impossible to secure increased wages, legislation will ) be asked to differentiate the matter of light and port dues in favour of ! the Companies paying Dominion I wages. ;l
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10021, 18 April 1910, Page 7
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144CHEAP COLOURED LABOUR Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10021, 18 April 1910, Page 7
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