TWO WELLINGTON HOTELS DECLARED “BLACK”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22816, 10 December 1948, Page 6

TWO WELLINGTON HOTELS DECLARED “BLACK”

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dee. 9. Two hotels in the Wellington City area were declared "black” today by the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union because they are alleged to have worked unionists in the liar yesterday morning when bar-room workers throughout Wellington were instructed by the New Zealand Federated Hotel Restaurant and Related Trades Employees’ Union to attend a meeting at the Trades flail. This development in the trade union dispute with the licensed hotel trade follows the action of the hotel employees' union in sending agents to each hotel' while the stop work meeting was being held with the object of reporting any instances where union bar-room workers were on duty. The two hotels were reported to the hotel employees' union yesterday afternoon and delegates from that union complained to the Waterside Workers’ Union, which discussed the question at its stop-work meeting this morning. The waterside workers resolved to declare the two hotels “black” until they received a “clearance’’ from the hotel employees’ union. “Clearance” Necessary

The Waterside Workers’ Union also announced that full support would be given to the hotel employees’ union in disciplining the members disobeying the direction to attend yesterday's Trades Hall stop-work meeting. The Wellington Hotel Employees’ Union declined today to discuss what discipline was being imposed upon members who are considered to have defied the union, or what approaches have been made to the licensees concerned. All the union would say was that there hud been a satisfactory development this morning because more than GSO bar-room workers at a stop-work meeting in Auckland had made a similar decision to that of the Wellington bar-room workers by agreeing to “job action” with the object of obtaining a satisfactory award by December 24.

The union added that it was waiting to hear from the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers’ Association whether if would resume conciliation discussions before next Wednesday.