WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 April 1914, Page 7

WORK AN D WAGES.

OEXKIiAL KTKIKE IX XOIiWAY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Christiania, April 3. The congress of the social-democratic organisation has decided 011 a general strike in Norway as a protest against the proposed law providing for obligatory arbitration in labor disputes. YORKSHIRE MIXERS' STRIKE. London, Api .1 3. The Yorkshire miners have Btruck, hut are expected to resume work on Easter Tuesday. Their wages' loss will amount to half a million weekly. | The executive of the National Trans- j porters' Federation and the General Laborers' National Council have drafted an amalgamation scheme, with a central fund to combat victimisation. SIX-DAY WEEK FOR HOTELS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. The Arbitration Court's award in the Wellington hotel workers' dispute was filed this morning. It is the most important and far-reaching award filed by the Court for many years, inasmuch as it grants a six-days' week to hotel-work-ers for the first time in New Zealand. The Court, in an attached memo, says that the additional expense involved will not be so great as would have justified it in holding that the granting of one full day's holiday in eai-h seven dnys was not reasonably practicable, as set out under the Act of last session, and can be met, as no doubt it will be, by a small increase in the charges to patrons of es- | tablishmenti affected, or by a reorganisation of then staffs. The award grants several increases in wages, including ssextra per week for barmaids and 2s Cd additional for barmen. f ===== j