AN UNWELCOME HOLIDAY.
PROTEST BY TIMBER WORKERS.
A somewhat remarkable resolution tbat was adopted aFliist night's meeting, of the executive, of the Auckland Timber Workers' Union, reveals another side of a question that is vory much before the public just now. It was reported to the meeting that a vote had bnen taken, aroonfr the workers in the variola tiinijer mills : in Auckland as; to whether or not they were in favour of holding A half-holiday oii the occasion of the visit of H.M.s. Xew Zealand, and although by a verj- largd" majority it was decided that the men would rather not lose the time, the employers nevertheless closed - the mills'. Whereupon a resolution was carried to this pfTpc* . : _i"Rc the enforced holiday imposed upon the workers in the va-fious mills, the' Labour Department be rertij'est'etl to Rive effect to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act by instituting proceedings asjninsfc the employers who .committed. .1. breach of the Act by causing a lock-out on' the" day in question."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 7
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167AN UNWELCOME HOLIDAY. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 7
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