DUNEDIN TRAMWAY DISPUTE.
(TRESS ASSOCIATION 'I'EIiEGRAM.) 3HJNEDIN, November o. At the resumed conference in tho tramway men's dispute.* representatives "of the hill companies said, that they could not support the offer from tho City Council of a 22 per cent. increase in 'wages, since the companies had no power lo increase fares. The workers replied that they would be pleased to enter into an .agreement with the Council, but f(sit that to do so would mean sacrificing; the hill companies' employees. A deadlock thus arose, and the matter stands referred to tho Disputes Committee, to be convened by tho lor:al head of the Labour Department, who took Air Hagger's place as chairman, owing to the illness of the latter: Both parties intimated that they would be pleased to havo Mr J. It. Bartholomew, S.M., as chairman of the Disputes Committee, if it could be arranged. _
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16362, 6 November 1918, Page 5
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