LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13978, 13 August 1909, Page 5

LABOUR.

WATCNING TO NYOKKMEX. Press Telegraph-Cnpvrigfit LONDON, August 11. The Board of Trade' has warned British workmen against proceeding \to Sweden as strike-breakers. BREACHES OF A WATCH. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 12. .Judgment was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day in the canes brought against Kirkealdie and Stains, drapers, hv the Labour Department. Or MeArthur held that there had been no breach of the award in not supplying the (inn's restaurant girls with, free lunch on Saturdays, when the premises are closed for the half-holiday, in two cases the firm were ordered to pay :i. penalty of f'o on each iid'onvation. for employing Mrs Good as head cook at 3'ls a week instead of 355, and for dismissing her. The Court held that her services were 'dispensed with because she was entitled-to the benefit of the cooks' and waiters' award. A penalty of £1 was imposed in a ease in which Mrs Good was charged with accepting below award charges. Judgment wais given for Kirkealdie and Stains in the eases i" which the firm were charged with distribotins . work on (he. team system.