SHIPPING TROUBLE.
SETTLED AT LAST. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. A conference, representing the Seamen’s Union and Shipowners’ Federation, which has been sitting in Wellington during the past few days. discussing the seamen’s demands for increased wages, has come to a provisional agreement, under* which work is to go on. For the present the men get an advance of 10s a month all round, preference of employment for unionists, and increase of 3d an hour overtime rates. After the pending award is made by the Australian Federal Arbitration Court, in dispute in Australia, another conference is to he held in New Zealand with a view to consider the question of making adjustments and bringing the Australian and New Zealand rate into line.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3374, 14 November 1911, Page 5
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123SHIPPING TROUBLE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3374, 14 November 1911, Page 5
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