TRAMWAYS DISPUTE.
WELLINGTON NEGOTIATIONS,
RUSH-HOUR CARS NOT RUNNING.
(By Telegraph.—rrcss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Some time ago the agreement between the City Council and the tramway men expired, and last week representatives of the management and the men endeavoured to arrive at a new agreement or the renewal of the former conditions, but the negotiations did not achieve complete success. The result is that certain rush-hour cars are not being manned. Previously they were manned under a special callback clause. The question is to be further discussed, but in the meantime some inconvenience is being suffered by people living in the suburbs. The president of the Wellington Tramways Union, Mr. C. L. Hunter, said to-day that the essence of the dispute was that the employees wanted overtime reduced to a minimum with the object of providing employment for some of the men who had been retrenched in recent years. Prior to the dispute the department carried on the service with voluntary overtime, and the men believed this was a wrong policy ami maintained the service was understaffed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1934, Page 8
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