ABOUT A HOLIDAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 4

ABOUT A HOLIDAY.

WAS THEEE A PRINCE, OF WALES' BIRTHDAY? June 23 was the new Prince of Wales' birthday, but as no word was hoard until the evening of that day that the title had been bestowed on the eldest son of King George employers, who are bound by an award of tho Arbitration Court or an agreement just as binding to give their employees a holiday, did not do so. After it was announced by cablegram that tho appointment must have been mado on Juno 22, the workers affected— or a section of them—aro claiming holiday pay for the day in question. The officials of> unions, whose members considered themselves affected by tho contention that as there was no Prince of Wales his birthday could not be. kept up,' now claim that the declaration on June 22 made June 23 Prince of Wates' Birthday throughout tho world, and that they have a perfect right to claim for it. Mr. Carey,- president of tho Trades Council, stated that he did not think this was a case in which tho employers should bo dragged brfjro the Court for not observing Juno 23 as tho Prince of Wales' Birthday, but at the same time ho did not see that it was fair to penalise employees becanso tlio information (lid not come to hand until the afternoon of the day in question. As -.'. way ont he suggests that November !) (the Into King's Birthday) elionld be nbwrvod as an industrial holiday in substitution for the one missed". Ho suggests that a statute should I>b passed governing all holidays —if they could bo nil "Mondayised" so much tlio better. The point involved in the question was put before the Minister yesterday, who submitted it to the Crown law officers for an opinion.