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International Labour Office Proposal.
SHIPOWNERS' ATTITUDE.
admires
Much as it sometimes the work of the International La- bour Office in Geneva,
the ship ping world is apt to overlook many of its operations in the strain and Cer- stress of practical business. tain proposals, such as the institu- tion of an 8-hour day at sea, emanat- ing from this office have left the shipping world coll, because on the rare occasions when they have been tried they have proved a failure This was notably so in the case of
France.
But the fact remains that the ILO. is a body enjoying the re- spect of several Governments, and its proposals may be carried into effect by these Governments over the heads of the shipowners. There has been a sunewhat natural dis- interest in the work of the LLO on the part of ship owners, but this constitutes A danger, in- asmuch as a definite attitude of watchfulness. is now required:
Next October.
About a year ago the 1.L.O. sent out a questionnaire to all maritime Governments, suggesting a draft convention to enforce an 8-hour day
for all crews on all vessels at sea, The answers have been somewhat slowly returned, and are not yet complete. They have to be de finitely considered at the next mart- time conference in Geneva, which will be held in October of this year A full report based on the answers
will then be presented to the con ference.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, in Geneva.
Mexico & Panama.
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Thursday,
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SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
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NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
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ath March 15th March.
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6th March.
18th March.
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Shipowners throughout the world hope that their case express the will be more fully represented than it was At the 1929 maritime con- férence, dealing with this subject, It behoves them at the present moment of acute world depression to realise just what this eight-hour day
at sen would in- volve, to study the questionnaire, which is printed below, and to devise the soundest system of deal ing with the matter in a fully co- operative and representative way.
Shipping
Intelligence.
conslating entirely of members of BRIGHTER SHIPPING
the owner's or skipper's family; (e) persons belonging to a special occupation and directly related to maritim work, and who are not em ployed by the master or shipowner (please specify the persona you would exclude ender this heading?) of Methods of regulating hours work for the different categories of
the crew.
8.-Do you consider that for the purpose of regulating hours of work the draft convention should dis- tinguish between: (a) Engine-room staff, deck staff, catering depart ment; (b) time in port, aniling days, time on passage, arrival days?
Engine-room Staff Engine-room Staff.-9. Do you consider that the draft convention should lit. t to eight hours per day the normal hours of work of the engine-room saff bath in port and ut, sea, and in all kinds of trades in- cluded in the scope of the draft? (2) If not, what genera: maximuni or different maxima do you pro- pose? (3) Should rules be laid down for ensuring a weekly rest, or for compensating it if it is not granted What rules do you "propose? Should provision be made for com pensating and limiting overtime? What rules do you propose?
OUTLOOK.
Canada to Dispel Pessimism ?
Pursuing his quest for the opin ions of prominent shipowners on the outlook for 1931, the London. correspondent of The Journal of Commerce gathered an encouraging message from Sir George McLaren Brown, European general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company. He refused to be pessi- mistic, and pointed to the extending spirit of world travel and the great powers of recuperation enjoyed by Canada.
In the course of the interview
Sir George sald:-"Notwithstand- ing the somewhat trying experi ences of the shipping companies during the year just ended, there is some basis for confidence in the out-
look for 1931, in spite of the fact that shipping concerns in general have undoubtedly been facing con- the recent past which (4)ditions in
have been far from encouraging. Shipping business, in common with
all other forms of commercial eater- prise, has been hard hit by the con- ditions of economic depression from which the world is to-day very tardily emerging.
Deck Stuff.--10, (1) Do you con- sider that t' draft convention should fix the normal hours of work of the deck staff as follows:-(a)
"It has required all the courage, In port, eight hours per day (if not, what maximum do you propose?); resolution, enterprise and thrift of (b) on paheare and on arrival and the directors and managers of our great shipping companies to meet sailing days, different maxima ac- cording to the different kinds of the situation. This, coupled with trades (distant, medium, near) or indefatigable, effort on the part of to the tonnage category of the ves-every member of these organisa- (What maxima do you pro- tions, has enabled them to maintain pose?) (2) Should rules be laid cfficient service during these times down for ensuring a weekly rest, or of restricted industrial and com- for compensating it if it is not morcial activity. The effects of the granted? What rules do you pro- world's depression are, of course, the great carriers of pose? (3) Should provision be made first felt by
passengers for these for compensating and limiting over- freight and time? What rules do you pro- services are the very pulse of the
business world. pose?
Bel?
Catering Department. Catering Department-11 Do you consider that the draft convention should lay down different rules for catering staff in attendance, on pas sengers and staff in attendance on the crew?
A Steady Improvement. "Now I think decidedly there are we have passed indications that through the valley and are on the ascent towards a brighter outlook, There are, to my mind, vary decided indications of commercial revival, 12. (1) Do you consider that the not only in this country, but in a Canada, and I am very much in should fix draft convention maxima for the normal hours of agreement with the thought ex- work of catering staff in attendancopressed by Mr. E. W. Beatty, prest-i on passengers? If so, what maxi- dent and chairman of the Canadian The ILO. questionnaire, now be
mum do you propose, (a) in port, Pacific Railway, in a recent speech ing considered by the maritime (b) on passage, (e) on sailing days, in Chicago, when he expressed his countries interested is as follow: (d) on arrival days? If not, should belief that the worst had been pass- 1---Do you consider that hours of a minimum rest period beed, and that we would wake some work on board ship should be re-fixed. and, if 30 .what morning to a realisation of this gulated internationally by means of a draft convention?
The Questionnaire.
minimum? (2) should provision be made for granting a weekly rest 2.-Do you consider that, aub- or for compenzating it if it is not ject to auch methods of application granted? What rules do you pro- and such exceptions as the special pose? (3) Should provision be conditions of the shipping industry made for compensating and Imiting require, this regulation should be overtime? What rules do you pro- based on the principle of the eight-pose?
hour day or the forty-eight-hour 18-(1) Do you consider that the week contained in the Treaty of Peace?
S.Do you consider that for the purpose of the regulation in ques- tion 10th Mar.
the following expressions should be defined: (a) Normal hours of work; (b) hours of actual work; (c) hours of duty; (d) over time; (e) compensation for over time? If so, what definitions do you propose?
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WARSHIPS IN, PORT.
The following British warships ware In harbour to-day-
Bridgewater South wall. Bruce No. 8 buoy.. Cicala-No. 7 buoy, Cumberland West wall. Herald-East wall.") Hermes No. 1 buoy, Iroquois -East wall. Kent North ‘arm Marazion No. 4 buoy. Medway No. 2 buoy," Odin-No, 2 busy „Osiris--in dook
Oswald-In dock.
SCOPE. As Regards Vessels. 4. Do you consider that all or any of the following classes of vessels should be excluded from the scope of the draft convention. (a) Sail- Ing saip; (b) Government vessels not engaged in trade; (e) vessels engaged in urgent work of public utility (please specify the vessels you proposa to exclude under this heading); (d) Vessels below a cer- tain tonnage? (What
tonnage limit do you propose?) Are there any other clasan of vessels you consider should be excluded?
As Regards Trades-6 (1) Do you consider it desirable to es-
fact, and to the further conscious ness that there had been a steady and a continuous improvement for some little time.
of
1930 with and years
have you bad comparison. I
"In reflecting, as I necessarily must, on the Canadian situation, I satisfaction from the draw some fact that, while we have talked of bad times in Canada, we arrive at draft convention should Ax a that conclusion largely from the maximum or maxima for the fact that we compare the year 1990 normal hours of work of catering with 1929, which was the very best
in the history staff in attendance on the crew? If year
Compare so, what maximum do you propose, Canada. (a) in port, (b) on passage, (c) earlier on sailing days. (1) on arrival day? not such a (2) Should provision be made for very naturally judge of the future. granting a weekly rest, or for com from our experiences in our own pensating it if it is not granted? business, and I find as regarde our What rules do you propose? (8) cruising ships, in which service we Should provision be made for com- have at present six of our liners, pensating and limiting overtime? that they are all doing well, which | What rules do you propose? indicates very clearly that there is
Work in the Interests of Safety. still money for luxury travel.
14. Do you consider that the draft convention should provide that overtime for the purpose of work required in the interests of safety is not to be subject either to compensation or limitation? (Pleas indicate as precisely as pos- sible the classes of work you would include under this heading).
alway
"Undoubtedly the spirit of travel has never been stronger at any time than it is to-day. Recognising that fact, all the great shipping com panies, particularly in the North Atlantic trade, have provided in their services exceedingly comforti able accommodation at rates which, when high coats are considered, are 16-Has your Government any really remarkably moderate. Frank- special obsérvations or suggestions ly, I refuse to be pessimistic as to to make on the basis of Article 405, the future. Great Britain has had par. S, of the Peace Treaty, which ita periods of depression and has recovered frem them, 5th Mar,tablish, for the purposes of the draft provides for the possiblilty of spe-
convention, an internationally ap cial rules to meet climatic con- Canada has also gone through plicable classification of the vari-ditions or particular conditions in similar depressions in the past, and ous kinds of trades?
there is no doubt as to her powers (2) If 60 certaia equntries?
of recuperation." should the following be distinguish- ed; (a) "National" trades and "International" trades; (b) “dis- tant," "medium," and "hear" trades within each of the two proceding groupa? On what criteria should these distinctions be based? (3) If you consider the International classideation fodicated shove Impos sible, what methods of international classification do you consider the most practical?
Otus No. 2 buoy. Perseus No. 2 buoy. / Poteldon--No. 2 buoy, “Sandwich-No. 18 buoy,
Seraph No. 12 buoy. · Serapis-No. 11 buoy.. Sirdar South wall Sterling Indock. Stormcloud-No. 11 buoy, Suffolk North, wall. Tarantula Bouth wall. Thracian No.: 12 buoy."
Foreign Men-of-War. Craonne-French destroyer. Argus-French gunboat.
6.Do you consider that certain kinds of trades ahould be excluded from the scope of the draft conven- tion, and on what conditions, If any?
DUBLIN PORT.
OFFICIALS COMPLIMENTED FOR YEAR'S SUCCESS.
At a meeting of the Dublin. Port and Docks Board the chairman (Mr. McLouglin) referred to the comparatively successful year's work at the port considering the conditions of Industry, generally.
The tonnage, both cross-channel and foreign, had increased, so that not only had the part held. its own, but results had worked out antis factorily
As Begards Persons Employed on Board 7. Do you consider that certain categories of persons, shoulá Ho attributed these good condi be excluded from the scope of the tone, to the constant improvements draft convention e.g.(a) Mesters and developments carried out by (b) non-watch-keeping officers in the Board and its officials, and be charge of department; (c), was pleased to think that as a con- pilots; (d) crews remunerated ex-sequence shipping was very wiling clusively by a share in the profits or to come to the port.)
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS..
Sunday, March 1 Antang. British atr., 2,107 tons, Capt G Morse, from Holbow, buoy No. B15-B. & S.M Chichibu. Maru, Japanese mis
17,497 tons, Capt, Y. Arakida, from Yokohama, Kowloon Wharf.N.Y.K. Glenbeg, British me., 9,461 tons,
Capt L Nawing, from. Europe vla Singapore, Kowloon Wharf
Kanchow, British str., 1,222 tons,
Captain RH, Fairley, from Amoy, buoy No. B8.-B. & S., Kulmerland, German ma, 7.989 tors, Capt. Paul Kassert, from Hamburg, Kowloon Wharf Jebsen & Co Menado Maru, Japanese str., 1.285 tons, Capt. T. Kawamata from
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