HOTEL WORKERS' HOURS.
; UPPORT OF LAW SOUGHT. By tfeleffrnph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the House of Representatives this evening, Mr. P. Frasev moved the second reading of the Hotel and Restaurant and Private Hotel and Boarding-house Employees Six Days a Week Bill. He said there was no suggestion of one big union within the four corners of the Bill. It simply endeavored to give the force of law to a feature of many industrial awards. Most of the employees in hotels enjoyed a six day week now, but not under the statute law. In this respect New Zealand lagged behind the legislation of most other countries. He proposed to ask that the Bill be referred to the Labor Bills Committee,- and as it affirmed what was an elementary principle in labor, he did not anticipate opposition. The Hon. Sir William Herries said he was not disposed to offer any opposition to the Bill, as it was going to the Labor Bills Committee, where the whole question could be thrashed out. The Bill was read a second time on igty yulflwt
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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181HOTEL WORKERS' HOURS. Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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