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SHIPPING INDUSTRY,

THE WAGE QUESTION.

ENCOURAGING INCIDENT.

(a) Cost of living advances granted suspended the greater part of them by Government Arbitration Court to Both timeworkers and pieceworkers

(b) The famous 12 per cent bonus to time workers and the 74 per cest on total earnings to piece workers by Ministry of Manitions

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Miss D.R. Pepperell

shipping sie being conducted either belog completely cancelled-and, at at a loss, varying in degree, or at a, the present time about 30 per cent. very small proft. Only the old of the shipbaldine berths of the established shipbuilding and ship country are vacant, while others are awning concerns, which have been becoming vacant-almost daily as the managed with skill and capomy in Archibald Hurd writes in the Daily

ships which have occupied them are the past will probably survive the RL Alkin

period of depression: On the other He W. Anderson - Hoousel- FOrder.

being completed. Telegraph on April 23 —–—-**

All the industries associated with (2) The special trade advance of In these circumstances the time band, although the cost of living has Mr and Mrs G. H.Kes K. Hoffman

M. Baunistas Mr W. F. Horsley the British mercantile marine af65 per week to me workers and 15 bas-come for reconsidering the wage fallen by 43 points, all the workers,

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---Imbert passing through a crisis at least as per cent, to pieceworkers granted in position. The cost of living, which still in employment are better off than Mr J & de Beau Mr and M serious as that which confronts the March, 1920, by the Industrial Court was 176 points above the level of they ever were. Seamen, for instance HER Bellios Mr and Mrs Ado coal owners and miners; but masters on the ground of the prosperity July, 1914 has now fallen to 133. are receiving about three times the lie and is Q. H. Jacobe

Mr J. Johnstan ward movement dy ceasing to pro, days, and men who are engaged. Mr & Mrs BioMe and Mrs G. N

Jones and men in the former Industries which, it was stated, existed in the The miners have arrested the down-pay that they obtained in prewar either lack the dramatic instinet industry.

(d) Special, sivances granted by duce coal, and, incidentally, bave ashore are also enjoying all the finan. Mrs Blackber

Mr M. Lideams which appeals to the gallery or possess a larger measure of sweet Government Arbitration Tabanas to dealt a serious blow at the wackers cial advantages they secured when, Me and Mrs A. EMPE H. Joseph reasonableness in conference. What-piecewickers in 1917 and 1918, first engaged in shipbuilding, ship-engige under war conditions, economic law Hr and Mrs B. Elias H. Lill

Capt. J. M. Lopes ever the reason may be, there is an standard ships and later extended ering, and ship operating at a mo- were ignored and the cost of living

Mr P. Marks ground for hoping that employers to other classes of shipbuilding and ment when competition is becoming was soaring upwards. Our ability to Dr J. G. Lyon Me G. H. Lynott and employed will succeed in adjust:↑ Ship-repairingen?account of the keener than it has been for manyl hold our own as shipbuilders and. Mes ). E. Brown Mr D. Mensche

Rivals on the Continent of shipowners depends more upon the

Mr F. J. Buckley Miss Montin

MF Mooney and ing their difficulties without recourse abnormal conditions, then prevailing years. to such desperate measures as were and the intense urgency of getting Europe and elsewhere are endeavour men than upon the masters, for the W. Barton

ing to redure costs by every possible latter are certainly not less expert and Mrs G. G. child

Butler

Mr Geo. Moyin adopted in the mining industry last the work done at all cost.

As the result of Tuesday's con-means-costs in the shipyard, the in managing their businesses, than November, and now again, when there seemed a prospect of a reference it has been agreed that the engine-shop, and on board ship. The they were seven years ago. Take the Mr A. & Claxton Mrs. F. Hurphy vival of trade, from which every- special trade advance shall be American workers on shore have shipbuilding industry by way of it. Mr. H. F. CostaMe J. FL Sorry cut" in their ustration: it was ascertained that at Mr Q11. B. Cottrell and Mrs Nisem

Mr N. Coucher Mrs Nortbey: " one, miners included, would have withdrawn for two stages, one bal! already sccepted, s

Mr & Sorthey # vessel complete Miss F. A. Deakin Me H. M. O'N profited. The resnit of Tuesday's being deducted at the beginning of wages and the American Steamship least 75 per cent. of the expen ir D. R. Dasics conference at Carlisle between the May and the o her a month later. Owners' Association has given notice ditere upon

father Shipbuilding Employers FederaThe employers are not out of the that it is intended, on May 1. to for sea was spent in wages in the Mr and Mrs R.Capr. G. H. Penne

De G. Donsid tion and the representatives of the wood yet, but they as well as the reduce by 25 per cent the pay of early years of this century, when the shipyards uniors who are members workers representatives, may be con- crews in American ships on the workers were paid less well than Me and Mrs C. M.MrR. & Perry

Ede of the Federation of Engineering and gratulated on the atmosphere in Atlantic, and an even greater. reduc to-day; their proportion is now much

The Labour agintor is MS. Elptimstone

manual. MeD. X. Felton Shipbuilding Trades is encouraging, which the conferences are taking tion is proposed by shipowners on higher. The first conference was abortive, place. No attack" is being made the Pacific coast. That action will apt to forget that the

RP. Ferguson but now after the men's leaders had upon the standard of living of the being the wages of American seamen worker, taking industry generally, Engineer-Captain talked over the situation with Dr. men; there is no idea of forcing below those now being paid on this receives more than two-thirds of the Mr H. Tk Ferocia

net produce of all the various factors Me J. C. Finch which go to production. It is appa-e C, K. Ford Macnamara, the Minster of Labong, them back to the wage standard of side of the Atlantic.

This movement attests to severe ac agreement has been resched} prewar days; but an attempt is which, it may be trusted, will be the being made to put the industry upon competition in sea-carriage, as well rent, therefore, that if trade is to Mr. Forster

recover a readjustment of wages He P. N. Forum precursor to other amicable arranse an economic basis in view of the as in the making of ships and eqoip must occur, for otherwise we cannot Me Gardiner Mr and Mrs J, 0, Dents. The workers have every depression which now prevails. EXTRAVEDINART

The time has come for a readjust on shore or by sea maintain an hope to compete in the world's mar Mr & Mrs Ganbanit Shoopard

kets; not the masters but the men His darbault Me W. P. Stuuros (For excent.of R. J. BUSTER, Esq) Amber of the case thing to lose by strikes, 20art al-

tion will be bell in the. St. Andrew's Church | together from the injury suffered by ment of wages to prače conflitidas, l'etitude of indifference to these bold the key to prosperity. The Mr J.N. G. GibbonsKrà. R:Spiers Hall, by coastery of fee Vicar and Vray the community gecerally. Je it after the hectic experiences of war developments, which threaten their position today in the industries Mr and Mrs L. M.He W. de Steen TO DAY FRIDAY June 10, 6.30.p.. imagined, for instance, that it profited time, when every economic principle livelihood? That is the question connected with maritime transport.

To order as) pas Revised Rules of the the miners to own tools" last) was cast to the winds. The boom is which Las now come up for discus is that, although capital is getting, Mr G. Grenier November, seeing that they Tester, as the report of the Chamber of sion Shipbuilders and engineers little or nothing by way of interest, Mr A. Gr fit wages amounting to from £14,000,000 Shipping and the more recent shipteancerned in ship construction, as there is not suficient money to pay Capt. T. P. Bal to £15,000,000? They threw out of building returns of "Lloyd's Register well as the shipowniers, are fully the weekly wages bill. The worker Mef. Scott Harston Mrs R. R. Tarber

and 2 children employment 350,000 other workers, indicate. and rendered short time necessary surplus of tonnige afoat, and conscious of the grave crisis which has to decide whether he will labour H. G Harot

Capt. WeadmanE in many industries. No estimate has freights have fallen dramatically but it may be doubted whether all for such wage as his industry can and His H.Miss T. H. Turning been formed of the total loss which with the result that shipowners who

himself and his fellows overwhelming Mr K.H. Hochschild Miss G. Yomg the nation incorred owing to that) many months ago placed orders for the men's leaders are seized with Pay, or whether he will bring upo¤ Mr C A. Henderson31c & Mrs O. Wiga

the serious character of the position. I disaster. The result of the confere

THE REWARD OF LABOUR. disturbance, but the sun was a vessels,

If we are to retain our primacy on colossal one. In spite of that ex-foranate, would now willingly forge perience, we are now in the throes their contracts. Many of them have

asked to be excused from accepting the sea, the cost of building and of another miners' strike.

delivery, and have paid large sums operating ships must be brought for the tearing up of their contracts. down to an economic level.otherwise it is credibly reported that during the we cannot hope to compete with past twelvemonths some300 contracts our rivals. At present all the in- connected with merchant for ships have been either cancelled or dustries

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