WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1914, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

HOTEL WORKERS' DEMANDS.

I'Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright ICnited Press Association.] Wellington, March 4. In the hotel workers' dispute at tin Arbitration Court, evidence by th< workers was given regarding tli long hours worked and the success ful operation of a six-days' week ii •Sydney. Mr Bovoridge, for the ho tel-keepers, gave evidence that tc award a six-days' week would pena Use Wellington hotels against even other port of New Zealand. Such concession would cost the Grand Ho tel alone an additional sum of £717 per annum to run. He handed in a balance-sheet of the hotel on condition that it be regarded as confidential. The secretary of the union objected to this procedure, and contended that the union had no opportunity of controverting it and that the question of profit ami loss in ar industry should not be considered ir fixing the wages. Tho President ruled that ho could not receive bal-ance-sheets but the employers were entitled to show what the granting of the demands would mean. The case is proceeding.