PRIVATE HOTELS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 6

PRIVATE HOTELS

THE GENERAL ORDER EXEMPTION REFUSED The Arbitration Court was not satisfied that the cases stated when private hotel owners applied for j exemption from the General Order of l the Court made on August 9, 1940, to i meet the increased cost of living were j truly indicative of the position of the ; industry as a whole, stEted a judgment !of the Court issued by Mr. Justice j jTyndall. The application was refused. { The applicants asked for total exI elusion from the operation of the j General Order on the grounds that the businesses of the employers had already suffered severely from the increased cost of living, the decrease in patronage caused by the war curtailing tourist traffic, and- the rationing of petrol; and that the payment of the j increased wages placed an unfair} I burden upon the industry. I

Evidence was brought to show the recent trend of business in two cases, but the Court stated that it was not satisfied that there was sufficient justification for excluding the whole of the workers from the benefits of the General Order. The judgment mentioned that the wages paid were lower than those in the licensed hotel industry.