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THE “LALLA ROOKH”| SEAMAN'S WAGES
A FAMOUS SAILING SHIP
SOLD FOR SCRAP
TEST CASE AT LIVERPOOL
INTERESTING ARGUMENTS
The hearing was resumed by the Liverpool Stipendiary Magis- trate (Mr. Stuart Deacon), of the claim by John Harper, a marine fireman, against his employers, a Liverpool shipping company. The claim made is for £1, the terms of the summons being that Harper having been lawfully engaged to serve as a seaman
on a vessel, claims the sum of £1, being the balance of wages due between June 20 and October 23, 1928, for a voyage on the ship.
The defending firm is support-
ed by the National Union of Sea- men, but it has been denied that Harper is backed by the Trans- port and General Workers' Union
which could afterwards be im- pugned either because it was con- trary to law or because the man himself had any power to revoke or withdraw from the agreement, he had entered into
When the man reluctantly on- tered into an agreement the result was that he agreed that the de- duction should be made from his wages in consideration of the ship- owner, through the master paying the amount of money then In the possession of a shipowner, to a third party, the National Union of Seamen. "Thereafter the seaman cannot repudiate that it must be binding on him; he is really say- ing though I agree to do this, I now, when I arrive in Liverpool agreement I then made. My sub- on shoe desire to repudiate the mission is that he cannot do that." be understood the argument put With regard to the document as
before his worship at
the pre- vous hearing, it was said that if it was either an assignment under they regarded that document alone Section 163 or an authority to re- ceive, and if it was an assign- ment it was not binding because
it was an assignment prior to wages becoming due, and if it was an authority it was revocable
at any time before payment.
What Happened on Shipboard What he (Mr Kennedy) relied upon was what happened on ship- yard. The man had the deduction
On this occasion Mr. Maxwell Fyle (instructed by Messrs. G. L. Lynskey and Son) appeared for Harper, and the defence was in the hands of Mr. A. R. Kennedy
put before him and he agreed to and R. J. White (instructed by
it. Clearly that was an acting Mr. Frank Daphne). Mr. S. Silverman watched the case for in- of the transaction, taken in con- upon the document and the effect
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.
The famous Liverpool sailing ship "Lalla Rookh" of 1876, which was a wonderful ship in her time, and even in the firewood trade has retained a lot of her old dignity and beauty, has been sold to Dutch scrappers after having been laid up at Mariehamn, in Fin land, for nearly two years. She was built in 1876 by R. and J. Evans, of Liverpool, for E. C. Friend, of the same port, and with her barque rig and tonnage of 841 was very similiar in all res- pects to her consort, the even better known "Shakespeare." She was intended specially for the Australian trade, and was one of the last ships to be built by Evaris. While on the regular Aus- tralian trade, taking general cargo outwards and bringing home wool, she made some re markably fast passages, although on one occasion she had a serious In 1896 her mutiny on board. original owners sold her to an other Liverpool firm, Messrs. Nicholson and Co. They ran her
Junction with the relative post- Mr. Charles Jarman, secretary tlons of the parties, was that the for some years, also generally on the Australian trade, but in 1904 of the Liverpool branch of the Na-ship on October 19 received for they transferred her to Lever tional Union of Seamen, said on the union £1. They received it' Bros., of Port Sunlight. Her June 16 of this year, when the either as agent or trustee. "I am first voyage under their fag was complainant, John Harper, joined certain of this," said Mr. Kennedy, a noteworthy onc, for after leav- the steamer, he was a member of that if the union had thereafter ing Brisbane for Falmouth no- the seamen's union, which was brought a claim against the ship thing more was heard of her. affiliated to the National Maritime to hand over that pound the ship Lloyd's posted her for inquiry, Board which was partly represen- and then wrote her off as missing, tative of employers and partly of could have no answer whatever in but after the insurance money employees. It was a board, for any action, which would be na- had been paid she turned up at conciliation and discussion of received for the union. The ship Falmouth, 199 days out after a matters affecting those interested having no answer to any claim for long series of contrary gales. in shipping.
Under the existing that money, the This stood as the longest continu- arrangements, in order that a man thereafter say, "Tear up the ar ous passage from Australia until | should be engaged on a steamship rangement. It is too late; he has it was heaten by a day by the the owners of which belonged to adopted it and affirmed it by an "Favel" this year. That passage the National Maritime Board, it appears to have disheartened was necessary for the man to be act which has put the ship in a
TUES. position of liability which has Lever Bros., and in 1905 she pass- a member of a union affiliated to
made them the
MON. trustees for the ed under the Norwegian flag. that board.
money."
terested, partles.
turally framed as money had and
man could not
Then she showed that she was With regard to what was call- Answering the contention of
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still capable of making amarted the contribution card, the com- Mr. Kennedy that an assignment commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- passages, and in 1917 she changed plainant signed the document of a pound by a man to himself rooms and Satoon. The us. "Tai Hing" la fitted with Wireless, hands in Norway, being renamed and afterwards signed the articles and somebody else was not an-as-Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via same Porta) every five
along with two or three other men on June 18. After the docu- ment had been signed, it was gen erally taken to the master of the ship for his signature, after which it was transferred to the head office of the union in London.
Credited by Union Having signed, the man WAR then credited in the books of the union with the amount set against his name.
The
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said he considered it was.. signment at all, the Stipendiary days. Legislature might desire to pro- tect the seaman lest he should get into the company of an undesir able person and assign his wages to himself and that undesirable person. If so, that assignment would be a perfectly legal instru ment unless revoked by him.
Mr. Maxwell Fyfe said Harper
"Effendi" at the same time. Her owners very wisely kept her out of the submarine area, and made large sums trading between the North American ports and South America. She did not return to Europe until the summer of 1920, when she was put on to the fire- wood trade, and in 1924 was bought by a Finnish owner, who renamed her "Karhu," and sent her on rather longer voyages. In 1926 she was bought by Captain. Leslie Steward, a delegate of did not commit himself in any way Gustaf Erikson, of Mariehamn, the South Branch of the National that could bind him, nor were de in Finland, a man who loves tall. Union of Seaman, said on June 18 fendants entitled to act on what ships, and who immediately gave her back her original name of of this year, when the vessel was he did in signing that account. "Lalla Rookh." As such she has tion form was signed by Harper Ing of the account there had been taking on her crew, the contribu-He agreed that this was a direc- tion to pay, and as to the sign- made several yoyages' with fire-
In his presence. After he had signed the articles, witness took no evidence that the captain be London, her rig cut down con the document to the master for his lieved himself to be an agent for siderably, and her figurehead gone, but still the same beautiful signature, and it was signed by the union at the time. He would be Harper's agent to pay, and not vessel which made her name out the master in his presence.
To Mr. Maxwell Fyfe (for the the agent of the union to collect. of the Mersey in the 'seventies.-
complainant) witness said the This was an assignment of wages "Journal of Commerce."
Inst he saw of the document was accruing which the seaman was at in the possession of the master.
liberty to revoke at any time be- Mr. A. R. Kennedy, K.C., who, fore it was acted upon, and it was
not acted upon until November.
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