Readers of The Sun will be well prepared for the announcement of Mr Justice Stringer, president of the Arbitration Court, made, in Auckland yesterday, that in future awards affecting hotel and restaurant employees a clause providing for a six-day week would be inserted. Last week we stated that certain exclusive information in our possession made such an important reform practically assured, and results have confirmed that prediction. The concession—one of the most noteworthy of recent years—is one that the Court could not with decency liave withheld much Time and time again the point of a whole holiday per week was spiritedly thrashed out between this parties before the Court, and Mr Justice Sim never was persuaded that the industry could stand the innovation—the employers' representative al : ways urged that the unusual conditions attaching to the work made the sixday week an unworkable proposition. Mr Justice Stringer has come to a different conclusion, ; and in this he will be supported by those outsiders who could not understand why the hotel-workers were denied the privilege, the logical privilege, granted to practically every other class of labour in New Zealand. The happy culmination (to the employees) is due primarily to the indefatigable efforts of Mr E. J. Carey, the leading spirit of the Hotel-workers' Federation, whose untiring advocacy of the six-day week and lesser reforms has met with the success it deserved. He has always eschewed anything approaching revolutionary methods in his negotiations with the employers; and when, during the late Socialist frenzy, the Auckland Hotel-workers took off their working clothes at the call of the Red Feds, Mr Carey, in Wellington, saw to it that his union did-not lose its head. This latest decision of the Court should tend to re-establish confidence in its jurisdiction, and give Labour generally a frank working interest in Mr Justice Stringer.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 47, 1 April 1914, Page 6
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