ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 303, 17 May 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

| DUNEDIN DISPUTES. I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Tlic Arbitration Court held a sitting lierc co-day on a recommendation for an award in tln* dispute of the Otago Hotel, I'eslnmanl and Boardingliou-e Employees' Industrial Union of Workers versus ihe Coffee Palace Company anil other private hotel keepers. .Mr. Jireen, who appeared for the Union, said the main alterations were a rise of 2s per week for waitresses and Is for housemaids, with provision for probationary housemaids. There was a reduction of 2s Od per week in laundry work, and the hours of men employed in private hotels were increased to 62 per week. Mr. Prvor objected to tile award being made, except in respect of the Coffee Palace, the Leviathan Hotel, and Woods' Hotel, which had been working under the award for two years. Mr. Breen also applied for the inclusion of Robert Spray, of the Trocadero, in the award. The Court reserved its decision. In the case, the Iron and Brassraoulders' Union v. Shacklock and others, Mr. Brpen, on behalf of the Union, opposed the recommendations of the Conciliation Council, and the Union desired the whole matter to be gone into. The Union objected fo clauses B ai)d C of the award, referring to certain 'rales of ptry fo* stock catalogue work. Tlie President said the Union wanted to come to the Court and pick out juafc what suited it and ignore the rest. There were three courses open to the Union—(l) Accept the recommendation; (2)i withdraw from tlie award, and arrange ft fresh dispute; (3) again go before the Conciliation Council. Mr. Breen said a mistake had been made by the assessors, and he would follow the third course suggested. In the Otago restaurant and boardinghouse employees' dispute, Mr. Breen asked that tlie Court grant the same conditions as had been granted in Wellington, and that the question be referred back to the Conciliation Council.

Mr. Pryor objected to this course. The trade in Dunedin was in a very bad state. An increased cost would mean that quite a number of lower-priced houses would go out of existence. The Court reserved its decision.