HOTEL HOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17064, 24 July 1917, Page 5

HOTEL HOURS

VIEWPOINT OF HOTEL TTOBKERsf] SUBJECT OF SPECIAL

SUBJECT OF SPECIAL lEGSSLAHSOnM <Pm Cvrro Prat AatocunxnJ -£■ . WELLINGTON, July 23.nH A deputation, representing the hotefl workers, waited on the Prime MmistertoM It to P r °test against 6 o'clock dosing. Yr , r -f- Jackson, preside nt of the ffejfl Zealand Hotel Workers* Union, said '|T |M tf early dosing- were brought into faroefl 33 1-3 per cent, of the hotel workers woukH be thrown out of work. At present thS hotels were open for 16 hours a day ancfl the hotel workers' award made proroiotfl tor 10 hours a day; consequently the hoteiH proprietors hod to keep two 6tufta. TbH strength of his organisation was 3824. this number, 700 had gone voluntarily tS the front, and expected to get then- posibonlH back again. This would not bo possiblaM if hotels were closed at 6 o'clock. If iH was a fair thing to close hotels at 6, tbS same as shops, then it was also a farfl thing that hotel workers should hare ibH same privileges and the same horns sjH those which were worked by shop asstst^l .Mr E. Kennedy, secretary of the Wfcll bngton Hotel Workers' Union, said thoH the statement that 6 o'clock closing woulifl X°_ nr national efficiency was misleadineTM The Prime Minister said that the would be one for special legislation Government had no desire to injure atnH section of the community, and a Bin detail mg with the matter would be brought dowiM within the nest few weeks. LIUMOitJUSTG TRADE'S OFFER. • REvTTLSEON OP PEELING. '^1 ABIDING BY CABINET BECaSHJN!~M CFkom Ode Owh Cohhesftdotjkht.) • WELIINGTON, July Z&M lno offer made by the deputation fnmfl the licensing trade to the Prune on Saturday of the 9 o'clock closmsriM hotels, without compensation to the provided the anti-shouting abolished, has been the subject of able comment in the lobbies, and already is reported that the attitude of EonxTmenfl bers m favour of 6 o'ofock dosing isxeM ported to be weakening. ••-"'■ i^B Compromise is in the air, and the probaH bihty is that the solid party in the m favour of the «• irreducible will be much smaller than was a few days ago. A large section ofthM House 13 m favour, of accepting the ment's proposals when they come peferring to leave it to Cahmefc to say is the fair thing. However, a powerful secJaon of the comprising members outside the Party, are determined ispcm 6 o'clock mg.or, failing this, the taking of a refercaiM oum by lie people on the question. oppose the trade's claim to and declare that the trade can fight out in the courts. In the event of Government (which is considered bringing in some other proposal than o clock closing, it may be taken for that an amendment in favour of the duciblo minimam" will too moved imzne^l