HOTELWORKERS UNION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 15

HOTELWORKERS UNION

RECORD HALF-YEAR. The half-yearly meeting of tho Wellington Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union will be held on Monday night. A iengthy report covering the work of the union for the six months ending October - 31 last will bo submitted to the meeting by the executive. The report states that, during, the half-year, 1086 new members had been admitted to the union, and that the entrance fees totalled £167; contributions for tho period aggregated £508; making the total receipts for the period just over £675. A profit of £B0 has resulted from the six months working, after heavy expenditure on account of the inauguration of the new Country Award and the cost of tfiting the new offices of the union. Tho period finished with a cash balance to the credit of tho union of £308.

Reference is made in the report to the return furnished tho Labour Department, of 230 members 1 who have enlisted.

The awards of the union now operate over probably half tho orth Island. Membership includes workers in all tho hotels soutli of Wairoa and Patea down to Wellington. Over the whole of that district the eix-day week is now in operation iu licensed houses. Most of the union's awards are working ismoothly. There have been two big law cases during the term—one was in respect to tho interpretation of meals for tea. bom workers. The decision in that case, though against the union, established tho fact that proper meals had to bo'provided in such places. In the other case, wherein the Country Hotels Award provisions providing for compulsory unionism aro being tested, decision has been reserved.