WAITRESSES LEAVE AN HOTEL
[SS TELfiGBAffI—tfBBSS ASSOCIATION.] WAIHI, This Day. A demonstration took place outside Sheffield* Commercial Hotel on. Saturday evening. Mr. Sheffield states that «<m Thursday night four girls interviewed Mi&, Sheffield, stating they AVoitld not work with one girl, a laundress, as her jgympathiee were not with the strikers. Mas. Sheffield replied that nhe could not be dictated to re -whom she employed, 1-dR.d if they didn't like working with the they could take forty-eight hours' notice. This was accepted, and expired Oft' Saturday night. A report was cur\tenfc that the girls, refused to work be•catuse they had to wait upon the policemen, bitt there was no truth in the rumour. The question of waiting on tho police never cropped up. The girls left ihe hotel on Saturday, and were- lustily by a crowd outside. Mr. Sheffiold says he hae not Been put to any great inconvenience by the event. He i» expecting some girls from AuckJand in a. few days. He al.=o states there jwaß a needlewoman in tho hotel waited on by the union executive and cautioned aiot to wait on the policemen.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue LXXXIV, 23 September 1912, Page 8
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187WAITRESSES LEAVE AN HOTEL Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue LXXXIV, 23 September 1912, Page 8
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