SIX DAYS WEEK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 7

SIX DAYS WEEK

CASK OF PRIVATE HOTELS JS IT WORKABLE? ■ The proprietors of pris-ate JiGteis arft Strongly agnijjjt- tho pi-oppsed applk-a- ■ Utttx by tli-o Wclliaigtoii district iiotd, yhjb, and Bestauranfc. Workers' liaten. ■for a new award for private Jiirtols aiid restaurants on the lines -of %■ ■ new SW*aays-a-\i"ce!c award rotating to licensed lious.es. There is mention af a meeting of protest being held in tW mow future, but es to ho tlefinito fixture h.iij been decided on, Tho proprietress of otic of the lending private hotels ki tho city stated, to a roporter y.osta'diiy tfcat it miM 1)6 {Metienily impossible to carry on Ws'uujss if tho propose award jvcto brought into force. B.v having tiro bars to iit back α-iij the iicmißpd houses wetts iniinjtfljy better alifo to face tile six days' week, and the ifiorc.a-sed- wages. bti tbo other hand, unlicensed Jrausas Jiftd lo rely entirely o.u Ijoarders, and lijany ol fte priva.ti> hotois. found ii si lyjird matter to p«y their way lit all, lira ijltor* j. OTtive of raising tiio tariff v.'iis j ticabfe, becausd tljut. were doiio it) ivoiiM result in a largo scctioji <>f tlfo puMic passilig out q? privivto s holc!s .al;d iincVilig ■clseapor l&tlfjihgs. Thfe flivi.y metliod that the private hotels coitlfi, adopt in tho direction of rethreinj; cs* psuses ivoul/1 bo to .put on a »ftfji*» tiro tabic, but t'lmt wohW not qkow ■age bnsii.ic&s. In rcspeefc to>- ■wages, inoreases wefro proposed in si.iiuniheri.f cases, It was proposed 'tliat.AVftifrcssos sjioujd Weeiw 22e. <sd. per iyeek, •■ ■■ as ■ against 20?,; lloftseniaifls, 205.. its agnitet 17s. 6c].; and day lwrters, '6i., as . ji-ga-insi 25a. In ivltore female' emploj'ees beard s>Si t'lite piiqnjises, T)ii4 fiteijt they ]iacl to bo paid ail .additional . 7s, 6d.j lnsteadl of :5?.,. as at preaeftt, Tho week Avonld lio ■prflfctfca.iiy ilnworkame, Kondudeij tiro prop'rietjess. It svdijld msmv the e'W .ga.f*ement of -B6#fersl ww : linn.di.s ftrt4 the npsettiug 'of all pressut .arrangemeiiisi