TEAROOM WORKERS SPEED IN THE AIR

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 11

TEAROOM WORKERS

SPEED IN THE AIR

NEW AWARD SOUGHT

The hearing in conciliation council of proposals for. a new award covering the Wellington (twenty-five mile radius) Tearoom and Bestaurant Employees' Industrial Union of "Workers, 'adjourned from April 19 for further consideration, was continued today. Mr. P. Hally presided. The employers were represented by Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, secretary-of the Wellington Employers' Association, and Messrs. W. Gamble, T. Andrews, and J. Boyd, -and the employees by Messrs. H. O'Malley, H. J. Colgate (the secretary and assistant secretary of the union), and A. Martin (Wellington), and F. You,ng (Auckland). The district country dispute will be hoard at Palmerston North. _ A new local award has been reached in Auckland, but the only other district that has yet accepted the conditions of that award is Nelson. The chief matter at issue today was wages. . ■■' . .'■■"'■.' Mr. Mountjoy said that keepers of tearooms and restaurants were having a lean time, and found 35s a week, less 10 per cent., too- much to pay. Mr. Young objected to the one, two, three, and four-year gradings'of employees, stating that it was feared this would' tend to the displacement of adult workers. They had already given a reduction from 31s 6d to 30s. No agreement was reached.

EOME, May 3. General Balbo, Minister for Air, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, announced that the high-speed squadron at Lake Garda would be maintained. In the not distant future a speed of .622 miles an hour would bo achieved. j