WEMBLEY WAITRESSES.
CONDITIONS NOT FAVOURED.
MANY LEAVE EXHIBITION.
A. anl N.Z. liONDON. May 5. The Daily Herald states a number of waitresses employed by the caterers at the Empire Exhibition have left owing to disaction with the conditions.
An organiser of the Workers* "Ltoin states that some of the waitresses received only 15s a week from which they had to pay 4s 4d in railway fares. On the other hand the caterers state that many waitresses make 15s in two days, but they do not indicate whether this represents tips. Another effort to obtain labour for exhibitions at wages which disgrace the Empire, says the Herald, met with no response. The Labour Exchange was asked ~ for 32 women cloakroom attendants to work eight hours from the morning till eleven o'clock at night with no free meals, the pay to be 15s a week. It is not surprising that women emphatically refused such an offer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 9
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