THE PRIVATE HOTEL HANDS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2150, 16 May 1914, Page 6

THE PRIVATE HOTEL HANDS

PROGRESS-Off. DISPUTE.

The sitting of the Conciliation Council in connection iv-ith the Private Hotel and Restaurants dispute Was continued beforo the Conciliatroii Commissioner (Mr.' P. Hally) ■yssteida-y afternoon. Messrs. F..G!odber, J. S, Oliver, and H. Brice attended as representing the employers-in the restaurant section of the dispute,. _ , ..... After a-lengthy conference,-in coinmittee with the- assessors for the .union, Messrs. H. O'Malley, G?Thomt*n, and B. J. Oarev agreed'to ■convene » fwt-her meeting' of this sect-tan of the etoployors to consider modified proposals that were submitted by the union, with the view to the settlement of the dispute outside the Court. ' :' , , . The a.ssessprs-lor. the -anion maistea that it should be lifidersfcood that the modified proposals were submitted without prejudice to the original claims of the union,' and.were nwdo in .a give-and" take spirit in the hope of settlement. The position new.is that the private hotel keepers will. meet en Monday night, and the restaurant employers o-n a night to te arranged shortly to finally consider the action to. be taken in respect to the modified proposals ef the union. When all'the meetings have been held, the Conciliation Council will meet, and all the parties will be'called together again: to discuss the decisions s-iibmitted. 'J . ' • After the meefcittß w< s ClMjitßiEsiener (Mr. P. Hally) informed a reporter that there was a very fair prospect of tho dispute being settled.