HOURS OF WAITERS AND BARMEN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 9

HOURS OF WAITERS AND BARMEN.

TO THB EDITOR OF THE PKESS,

Six,—l am going to tsk you to allow me through your valuable columns to make an appeal on behalf of waiters, barmen, and hotel hands for better hours. Why not allow them to come under t&e Factories Acb, and work sixty hours per week, <t!lie came ac in Australia and every other civiised countay Where 43wy fly the Union Jack? Whilst in England TheaiKl each a lot about New Zealand re .their patekJttc spirit, etc., but I think the way waiters barmen are treated ia edmply murder; Now, ihere ia a ohanoe for some member of Pmrliameni, or, say, some sesident of Ohristchuroh to come along next election day on the ticket, viz., Better Hours for Waiters end. Barmen, and I feel sure lie would receive the vote of every honourable reeideitt- In Australia, I believe, the Act which applies <bo waiters and barmen worjos wonderfully well, so I trust some gentleman will come along and" save the poor waiter and 'barman finmii being worked to death, while from What I am given to undersUukl they are only in receipt of starvation

wages. Just fancy a man finMiing Ms work ait eleven at nigfht oawJ having to turn to at six o'clock next morning, snaking seven hours redfc and seven days a week for the poor unfortunate waiter- '

I may state I am neitber a waiter nor a barman, but, all the same, they hare my deepMrti eymgaltby.—Yours, etc., A HUMAN BEING.