A DISPUTED HOLIDAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 6

A DISPUTED HOLIDAY.

It* wilL bo remembered ;thatVc6mpiii'|V:.':;''v.iV.~ ca.tibnk '-arose'over the gazetting "of' June*? ? fe ; ' 23 la'st,\tlie-Pnnce'-bfv Wa'les's>-birfliii.U;;^-'- : day,,,as;,a holiday/;.'Employers;,at^ itop £k ,: : ; : time,! i thought.it:unnecessai - y to the day, :as holiday.had been ; '' V: .,•;;:'. ; ■granted :jin; connection;'with .the.'funeral , i: ■■'';.';;'' of jhe'late King?and ; ':v.. ■fio'atioii >;was' nbt : .' until after-U -.'V.;-; • the'.fdate'!of.' : the;- holiday.- : ,' Several,. iA|i ~<f)■] boiir,unions interested have been;in6or-;\/. ■".'>.'. respbndence':.wjth. the-. Labour■.:-'Depaxt-'j-j.'!:"ii;~'? .ment.with:_a view'to^h'aying'/the'avvardv,"..; ■:':•;. provisions in reference'to.'erfra.rpaji,: 'i v'j -;• t-er,' has y -''alsoV "twice bean} discussed ; ,ai'- :^'if ri';' recent .meetings, of t '.the■Trades^Counc^,'-: ; ' ; . J: V-:. andjetters.'were, sent'to 1 the. '•'■■■•• :'; c med'sand.Empl6yersV^^ktioDS,. : r6ngvi '';■''':-.-. ge'sting :: that NbyemberjiS be.observed-in ,":V'. : shops, and' award:'industries in ;{lieli : 'of .■'■'.-, : ■, -■' fbVholiday.on'June.Sfl," considered legal ..'.';"■::' .by thb;;;Crown ;: law'.;^auwiorities,■■•■but;^iot. ; -:.-:/f.';';v.i ■ qbserred:.■■'■ The■rEDiploj'ers'., Association.-. - ; i : .-; : ; ■ ; 'Kas'noworeplied.i.tov'jita that th'ejmatter; willibe' referred, to';the- ; v 'Dominion,. Conference.'to, bel'ield.'next month-in;order' that ; a. gen'eral-under-'">■]": standing may-beijxriyed'at;'- That a com- ".,"■■;.,: promise.is the;;"'«.'.-, ■'■}. facb 'that the'Wellington ; Grocers'Assist- : ?:.:-:•■&■: ants' VlJhwn has-been; notified- by-, the Employers , -; Assopiatioff-' that'V all:,. the ■;: = ;•,>.;.■' larger firnis-'in Wellington hiifei-^z&p /November. 9.-.,>:- ■■,!';■-''' w'- :^ .'.-?£■ ';•■&'.';'^;..;'-v^;^fe : ' :