HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS
SIX-DAY WEEK. AUCKLAND, 31st March. An agreement on all but one of the points at issue between the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union (old union) and Licensed Houses Workers' Union (new union) on the one hand and the Licensed Victuallers' _ Association on the other, has been arrived at. The now union has been swamped by members cJ the old union, who recently threw out the strike-breaking executive and installed officers who repudiated, on legal grounds, the agreement m#le with the employers in December, and co-operated with the old union in applying to the Arbitration Court for an award. The employers accepted the position with good grace, and conferences were held, with the result stated. The Arbitration Court was infoimcd to-day that 'the only point now in dispute related to the ' six-cay week Mr. Justice Stringer said ths Court intended taking the Amendment to the Shops and Offices Act as mandatory and introducing a six-day week into all future awards relating to hotel and restaurant workers. This clears the way for a final settlement of the whole dispute. ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 3
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