WELLINGTON BARMEN TO HOLD STOP-WORK MEETING TODAY

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 December 1948, Page 4

WELLINGTON BARMEN TO HOLD STOP-WORK MEETING TODAY

WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA). —Barroom workers in Wellington will be holding a stopwork meeting at Trades Hall tomorrow morning to hear a report from lhe assessors for the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant and Related Trades Employees Union on the break down of conciliation proceedings for a new award in licensed hotels. It is learned that the union, while it is dissatisfied with the failure of the emplyers' representatives to concede .the workers’ demands, which include lime and a-half payments on Saturday’s and double time on Sundays, has refrained from calling otherhotel workers to the stop-work meeting. Further meetings, it is stated, may be considered necessary by the union and in that event hotels are likely to be left without all their workers, whether barmen, barmaids, waitresses, housemaids and kitchen hands for the duration of the discussions. Tomorrow’s meeting is timed by the union to begin 8.30 a.m. and its duration is indefinite. Similar meetings are intended in other parts of New Zealand and it is learned in Wellington that arrangements already have been made for an early meeting in Auckland. A union official said the stopwork meeting .was necessary, but its scope had been limited out of consideration for the employers and their guests. He added that at this juncture it was not intended to call away complete staffs of hotels from their duties.