TNAG-0357-FCO40-393-Registration-of-merchant-shipping-in-Hong-Kong-1972 — Page 86

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DECES TON OF A MEKT

OF MARITIAN

THE NOW.F. RELATHIG TO "PLACH OF CONVENCE"

2011 MARCH 1972′′

Who Maritime Unions and the Waterside Workers' Federation under the ampices of the ACTU agree to combine a canlyn of action against Plags of Convenience and Crew of Convenie vosite la.

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the owners of "Flag of Conveniento" or "Ciew of Convenience" vessels who are not party to agreements with bona fide trade unions covering the wages and condition of the

1.T F. agreements which will provide for wages and conditions of employment and repatilation provisions acceptable to the International Trade Union movement.

Australian ships and crews are used to carry cargo for which at present Australian Exporters and Importers and bodies such as the B P.C. and the Australian Wheat Board now charter "flags of convenience" or "crew of convenience" vessels.

The Unions also demand that the Australian Government should take action to determine that a percentage of all Australian exports and imports should be carried in Australian Flag ships and that they should not allow foreign vessels to operate in the coastal trade without agreement of the Unions.

In order to give effect to the campaign the Unions determino:

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3.

That whore a "Flag of Convenience" or "Crew of Convenience" vessel other than one exempted'in accord- ance with the exception contained in paragraph two of this resolution enters an Australian port all unions to refuse servicos or labour to such a vessel until it is covered by an IT P. Agreement and the other above- mentioned requirements of the Trade Unions are met,

The assistance of International Seafarers will be sought

in such actions.

The ACTU to arrange conferences between the Unions involved and the Australian Wheat Board, the Australian Barley Board and the B.P.C. and other appropriate interests in order to place the Unions views before those partios.

The ACTU to arrange a conference between the Unions involved and the Minister for Shipping and Transport and the Minister for Trade, to place the Tinions submissions that Australian vessels shonid carry a percentage of Australian exports and imports.