RESTAURANT WORKERS RESUMING.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1904, 12 November 1913, Page 9

RESTAURANT WORKERS RESUMING.

NEW UNION TO BE FORMED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 11. The difficulty of obtaining meals at restaurants is disappearing, many proprietors are resuming, and others state their intention of reopening immediately, their staffs having agreed to return. Steps are being taken t$ form a new union of restaurant employees to replace tho old union, which, by reason of the strike, ceases to exist. Tho hotel proprietors aro content to accept ,tho position and make the best of existing conditions as regards ' tlie preparation of meals, white the hotels remain closed by ,tho Magistrate's orders. Somo of the leading restaurants Wero operating with full staffs at the luncheon hour to-day, and their work was carricd on without special hitch. Tho ■proprietors have pointed out with reference to the demand of the union for a six-day week that this matter has been placed in the hands of. the Legislature, aud could not ho iuterofeed i« s by thy.m without complicating the situation. The secretary of tho Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union stated that a. number of restaurants in Queen Street had opened again, and more'were reopening to-morrow. To counteract this move, tlio Central Strike Committee had asked tho Bakers' and Buthcers' Unions to refuse to deliver meat or bread at tho restaurants concerned.