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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 78, 1 April 1909, Page 6

The Sydney Tramway Arbitration Board considered an appeal by the Tramway Employees' Union that the •Chief Commissioner was not carrying out the spirit of the recent award in regard to seniority in the service. The award set forth that seniority lists should be exhibited at each depot. This order the Chief Commissioner complied with, but the unionists then discovered all the "loyalists" had been placed at the head of the list, while the tramway men having many years of service to their credit, but who had gone on strike, followed in the rear. The union argued that the award intended that seniority should be reckoned as if no etrike had taken place, but the Chief Commissioner contended that the men who went on strike must be counted as having'left the service, and thus forfeited their seniority. Mr. Justice Street, as chairman of the Board, held that the Chief Commissioner was wrong, and decided that seniority must be reckoned as if no strike had occurred, WOLFE'S -properties possessed by no other spirit