WHAT THE EMPLOYERS FILED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 9

WHAT THE EMPLOYERS FILED.

IN* HOTEL WORKERS' CASE. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Auckland, December i. Tho Conciliation Council will sit tomorrow to lioar a dispute filed by the Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Union of Workers between that body and the hotelkcepers. The claims set forth by the union are for increases of wages, improvement of conditions, and for one day olf in seven, which was tho insiiii point at issuo when tho union struck a few weeks ago. Tlio'following statement has been filed by the. employers :—(I) The appellants arc not workers within the nioaiiint; of the Act, not being employed in licensed hotel business, (2) Respondents have no dealings with tho Auckland Motel and Restaurant Employees' Union, and, therefore, have no dispute with it. (3) Hotel workers employed by tho respondents arc not members of the Hotel and -Restaurant Employees' Union. (■)) Hotel workers- employed by the respondents are members of tlio Auckland City Licensing- Hotel Assistants' Industrial "Union of Workers, and respondents can recognise only ono union o'f workers. (5) For the above reasons respondents are not prepared to disci;:!:; the claims set forth by the appellant union. (0) Respondents are informed that the Auckland City^Licensing Hotel Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers is ijliin:;, or is about to file, an industrial dispute to which the hotclkcepcrs will bo parlies.