THE TRAMWAYS.
WHY NOT A SURPLUS ? "If we had the money we'd give it to you," said Mr J. A. Flesher, one of the Tramway Board assessors, yesterday, when the Board's industrial dispute was in the second day of its hearing before the Conciliation Council "I've been representing the workers at these disputes for the last 16 y eal V' said Mr E. Snow, secretary of the Tramway Workers' Union, "and I've never vet met the Board when it is financial." „ , Mr Flesher: Well, the figures are published, and you know the position as well as we do. Mr Snow remarked that he was sure the general manager could sit with the
big a surplus each year as was now shown as a deficit. "If you were in charge you'd probablv do worse," said Mr Flesher, while the"Board's other assessors gave vigorous deiiial to Mr Snow's statement. Mr W. Hayward: Don't you see that vou good people coming here with your demands prevent any surplus ever being made.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19212, 19 January 1928, Page 5
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