PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAYS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 2

PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAYS.

[BY TELEGRAPH — Ml«S» ABBOCIATtO!C J AUCKLAND, 15th Juno. At the Arbitration Court Mr. J. Miller, who appeared £ot the masters in the carters' dispute, spoke against the granting of fuTther holidays. He said : 'In regard Do Labour Day, which the union now ask to be paid for as a holiday, the court did not include this in its previous award, and, we think, wisely so, for why should masters be compelled to pay men for a holiday which they use in a procession through the town, practically as a menace to their masters? It is'like going back to the time in the Old Country when it was mt safe for a Catholic to be out on Orangeman's Day nor an Orangeman on St. Patrick 1 * Day. This bitter feeling, which, we aie eorry to cay, is growing botwecn masters and men, should be discountenanued in every possible way. The union claim thai they do not wish to work on any holiday (that is why they ask treble wages if they are compelled), " and yet what do wo see on f-abouT Day? About every horse and turnout in town in these eensele«j processions. Men in a great many case* sit up half the night decorating their horses and carts whilst we liavo to c^oie our business on Labour Day. We do not) see why we should have to pay men holiday wages. Holidays tfre on the increase every year." Mr. , Justice Chapman : Labour Day procwaion is dying out in most places. The holiday, however, is being kept up and spent in some other way, for in* stance, in picnics. Mr R. F. Way said processions had been held during the last three years in Auckland, and they were the largeab fielebutiouA. ia the .coloqjr,