TRADE AND LABOUR NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 20 October 1922, Page 9

TRADE AND LABOUR NOTES.

, !: , ,\;,i STl'.a:. 'IT.AMI , i i rSinsMl-.KTIS'iS 1 , -!! Till. WKEK. 1 Men.:.-.?. ""; " r "... '.■';';'■■■ ri'ii'a Tnul-". T; "'V ; :' ■','„* ','.."■ -• ,; -- i:»ipi".vc.''' h Tli"!" 5,1 -" 1 ' ■ . .''' '".'''■ ',■,„".',.,. "' "" ' 1 |'i-l:,ll.. -< >V ,'.'■ . ' ■,;,.... J Fri.lny. "■; ' l..\i\«'l Ii I'AV. p , whi.il i. 1,. !.,- ob-ervod \ 1 - :, ." n : ~,". .' i< •, ■ ■ day ..i all days , . ou Mi'iviaj vv ',j,,.. ;i of New Zealand I i; !;;;;. 1 ::r;,lub..urv1üb..urv big., holiday! . .. ;„ iliiT.-i-.-iit centres in a more , r:l ' ;i ■ /.J,,',. i ;: .hU.u. but under a C; V ' ",„'„'.' •■ •of K'.Vi'l n -' m ' 1,;, - -?!,_".:,. r -rivin» rrv trade after tVadc }"' !,: ' ■■■■.' .re"; -m"-.v had secured the '"'', '.',; ur ,i, v obM'i-vunee. until with a | ilu. duy of ten h'.,-s' V.>.-; IIH.I !>''''"'» {, il lhi "« O! UIC n fl "t and it .vas foil that the term .lnnl.l'bo changed t» "Übour Hay." In IBO" tlier.-fi>ro. Inrliame.U passed an EcaliMtho l,r...urJ)ay Act. 1W»I. in which thy holiday wa- made compulsory 011 employers and workers alike, and the obUrvanJewas.uadeunr.idatoryandn.-.t. tnerelv optional. LaK-r on this Act was Con-o'.idaW along with another enactment and placed on the Statute Hook under the name of the Labour DepartBentaml Labour Day Act. I.HIS. In this Act the day was lixcd to be observed on "the second Wednesday in the month of October in .'iu-Ii year, and sdiall be known as Labour Day.'' Sinre then, with tlie view nf having the holiday a little later iii the spring, ihi- Act wa.s altered to provide fur tin' holiday being observed on lh« fourth Wednesday in October, and later c-tiil to the fourth Monday, sol as not to have a break in businese in the middle of the wooU. and that is the position at present. THIS YEAR'S FI"NC'TIOX. In the celebration of Labour Day. year after rear. Auckland workers have not taken' second place to any city ill the Dominion. One reason is that early iv the period of these celebrations the sympathies of the Government of the day were enlisted to tlie extent of _ll diacourapefflent of race meetings ill the vicinity of Auckland by a refusal to grant a permit to use the totalizator at any race meeting held on Labour Day. I we'll remember a deputation to the late Ht. Hon. R. J. Seddon, then Premier, to put before him tho claim; of tlie workers to have a holiday in the Domain secure from any other attraction in the ehope of horse racing. 1 was a member of that deputation, and 1 remember well tlie definite, promise given by that great Statesman that he would not issue any tolaiisator permits for that day, for be agreed that it should by a day on which the worker should enjoy with bis family & reunion in the Domain without having the temptation put before him of spending it selllshly on a racecourse. That promise was kept hy thy. . Liberal Governments, and to their credit be it said it has" practically boon kept by hi-j successors in ufiice. Many successful functions liiivc been held since then when the clerk of the weather Biniled on '.lie ell oris of the committees, and line weather resulted. But there haw been days mi which tlie weather proved anything but desirable, and iussci have resulted even though the programmes were complete and airtbltious. Tins year the committee has n ni'ire ambitious function than ever, for previously the celebration has been compressed into one duy. while this year it will extend over three days—Saturday afternoon and evening, Sunday afternoon, Monday (Uibour i'ay proper), all day ar.;l in the eveninjr. All the particular.; 'irn jjivpn in our n.'lvvrtising columns, iuhl it will be seen that in addition tv the usual procession and sports there arc many ncveltie.s not inually ccen in Auckland, such as wood-chopping and Mir.iiiK competitions, wrestling bouts mid nviypolo cumpvtltiuns for thu various scliuolH. The committee lnw gone to the of ponvpying a team o! -Mauri maidens from li'otorua to give put dances and Maori part-singing. To many of our citizviM who have ne.vei hecn nlilc to afford the time and monei to visit Kotorua unique attraction; Will prove interestinp. and not the leusi to thu many new arrivals from tho Ok Country, wlu. have some of tho attrac tlons of R'otorim brought to thei; doors, so to hpoak. The evening fune tions in the Cricket Cround will nlso b( a novelty, and what with jazzing on th, green, confetti '.mtt.Vs a. la Nice, with tin gruuwu lit „,, v , ltll IJovvei .f u i nl . c ligllts and thu surrounding trees illuminatet with electric 1i,,!,;5, the capueiouH Cricke ground should prove a veritable fairy land. Given line weather the linanciu ««uIU »|, ouW ~ruv,, ruv , am "move ..um.. ~f the CUOOO debt on tb Auckland Trades Willi. EQUAL i'.W F(Ht EQI'AL WORK. The ever-aliturliing iiuostion of the relation of the -«.■* cr"o].ped up in the Arbitration t onrt at Wellington lasi Wt'ek. 'J'hi> time it. was in the guise o the maxim ■■c,|i>iil pay for .-qual work." ilr- J. M.Kon/ie. pi-.tployres , roprofunta tivp in th" re-taurant and tea-roon v.nrkeiV dispute. » ur-'iop tin- ncees sily cf observing this prineiplA "We've had to break aWu.V from tha in New Zealand." mis the reply of .Mr Justice l''ra?.er, "because we futind tha hi the man's we bad to iucllld' the cost of keeping a family." "But surely, where the money mad 1 by the labour will pay wage* as well a charges oi interest and capital, thi ehoiilj be «,." s,u,i ;,i r . MeKenzie. " N (ni see, in Aiixtrnliii and in Xc Zealand we have had to ii>: a basi wa-tr," said ],]< Honor. "11l othc words we have had to llx a wage fo the work to cover these claims. Thi primipli. was p.'ihap« never taken int eoiifideratioi. at the Peace ( onferencenut that we're bound by that." • UiTITNCS. Twenty ypiirx cmplined in the L'nitc 1 tati's l.iiivorl!iueiil service, and not •i"Kle day 1,,,t b.-uiise of sickness, i the record of llaney I.ovojoy. in th V.S.A. i-o-tma-ter-iieiieral's' olliee. Xc 1!) years l.c had Iki-ii in the lost Ullii Department. The New South Wai.- Hoard of Trad "as lixec! tin- iiu-i.- Wiijje for adult ma! workers in t'.'e State oi New Sout at CI IS/ per week. Thus n O'tiTatioii is made in the amount fixe 1 , . , the Heard i.f Trade last -May. A letter recently received in Londo from l:u-. :; , .ontained 4H0.000 roubles • "tamp-. TliN rejir.seii'.s £40.0(K1 in pi yr value-, but only a few pence ill En, li'li money at th» present rate of c fhanpp. Tii- letter was covered wil stamps, and in addition there was •fleet attached to it.