TRAMWAYMEN SOLID.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 7

TRAMWAYMEN SOLID.

aEEETTNG HELD THIS MOS3TING. uxAKiMcars vote carried. , LinCJ l «"»f the traniwaymen ha-vc been hr-ld from time to time since the trams stopped running in order that the men mijrht. kerp in touch with what is going on in connection -wiJi the .strike. It has to be rrmKDibered in connection with this union of workers that, although t-J]» me.tnh-e.rs decided by a. very big- ma.jority to cease work tbo moment that special pollen appeaj-ed on the waterfront, tbry were forestalled by the action of thr conipany in closing down the cars owinc to stoppap: of coal supplies a fonnijrht aco to-nrorro\v A few hour? after the ears stopped running ti>e mounted specials took charge of the watorfont, and have been in occupation ever since. The tramwaymen. therefore, did not strike: they did not have the opportunity to do so. Their representative, however, site on the Strike Committee, and the members take part in- all the demonstrations.

At .1 meeting held this morning there were 21- members present, and it. was decide unanimously to re-uuin solid in their first intention ■with regard to the action rake - ] by the authorities against the Waterside Workers' Ttrionf In view c; tie statement made by the Mayor, that there was no reason why the trams should not be running by next Monday week, before -which time it ie supposed am-ple <-nal supplies will *be avj.i!ible. the attitude of the men this morninjr. i> particularly significant. It should he noted, howfTor. that the Tmion enmpri?' 1 ? members.