CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15939, 5 December 1913, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

AUCKLAND HOTELS. AN INTERESTING DISPUTE. (Pzb Unitsd Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 4. The Conciliation Council will Bit to-mor-row to hear the dispute filed by the Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Union of Workers between that body and the hotelkeepcrs. The claims set forth by the union are for increases in wages, improved conditions, and for one day off in seven, which was the main point at issue when the union struck a* fow weeks ago. The following objections have been filed by the employeiu: —(1) The appellants are not workers within the moaning of the Act, not being employed in the licensed hotel business; (2) the respondents have no dealings with the Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, and therefore have no dispute with it; (3) the hotel workers employed by the respondents lire not. members of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union; (4) the hotel workers employed by the respondents are members of the' Auckland City Licensed Hotel Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers, and the respondents can recognise only one union of workcre; (5) for the above reasons the respondents are not prepared to disouss the claims set forth by the appellant union; (6) the residents arc informed that the Aucklaml City Licensed Hotel Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers is filing, or is about to file, an industrial dispute to which the hotolkeepcrs will be parties. —M. Maurice Maeterlinck's; new volume entitled ,"Our Eternity," which Messrs Methuon.' recently published, may best bo described as an enlarged version of tho essay on "Death," issued a. couple of years ago.' In addition to tho matter wliicli has alieady appeared in "Death," the book contains an exhaustive inquiry into theosophiral and spiritual hypotheses, the possibility of communication between the living and the dc.id, "cross correspondence." oiid the theory of reincarnation, subjects of which tho workl-famod writer has made a study for some years past.