A.S.R.S. RETURN.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 104, 1 May 1920, Page 7

A.S.R.S. RETURN.

ENGINEMEN REMAHf OUT. MUST HAVE SCHEDULE CONSIDERED TRAMS CONTINUE TILL MONDAY. MOHT. To-day the iron roads in the North Island are still silent, and the only trains to leave Auckland were two suburbans, • after one, to take workers home. The Boyal train still etande at tlie deserted platform, and the big black boards j where normally the times of departure J are written now have only the sentence, "No probability of trains resuming in the meantime." The Departmental cers here in Auckland were not this morn- | ing holding out much hope of a resump-1 tion of the services in the immediate future; they believe that the A.S.R.S. J will return to work almost immediately, in terms of the executive instruction, and the whole situation in Auckland to-day centres in the decision the local branch of the A.S.R.S. is called upon to Cliike. In brief, the meeting this afternoon i ccided to return to duty if the Wellington executive aesured them the E.F.C.A. men will not be victimised. But they will not accept duties on any train with j volunteer labour. [ So far the local effects of the strike are being watched with , a good deal of fatalism by the general community. The .municipal authorities announce that as things now stand the tramway service !and the electrical power station will run I till Monday evening, then stop. Coal | has "been mined, and the stoppage holds i it up on the way to the city. The fuel I .can be delivered here the morning after j the trains resume, and the local officials of the Department say that the oarriajio of this coal will be one of their first considerations. i It would appear that the ahippinj cervices are in no immediate danjrer of disorganisation. The companies do not hav.e to rely upon "vVaiVnto coal; their %unplies come from elsewhere. \ The decision of the A.S.H.S. exe.-utive jn Wellin«rton does not stop the hold-up, ■but it <fri»atly diminishes the possibility 'that the !?reatest of the ln'bour orpranisa- ! tions in this country will participate in ! the strike, ns the Advisory Board of the Transport Federation has endorsed the ' ; A-S/R.fJ. action Rnd "regrets" the atti-' > tude of the E.F.C.A. \