NEW AWARD FOR DRIVERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22551, 5 November 1938, Page 18

NEW AWARD FOR DRIVERS

STATEMENT BY OTAGO UNION SECRETARY : "NO POSSIBILITY OF STRIKE ; IN MEANTIME" (PRESS ASSOCIATION TRI.EURAU.) DUNEDIN, November 4. "While i the members of the Otago Drivers' JXJnion are certainly dissatisfled with, the wages and hours prescribed in the new motor and horse drivers' award announced on Thursday, there is no possibility of a strike taking place iw.the meantime;" «aid the secretary of the Otago Union (Mr H. Brown) when asked to confirm or deny a rumour that was current in some quarters that the Otago drivers had decided to strike. •«. "The union is certainly going to take some action," Mr Brown added, "but nothing will be done until after Tuesday night when a special meeting of the union will be held. There will be representatives of the Otago Trades Council of the Federation of Labour at the meeting, at which the whole position will be Xully discussed and a course of action decided upon. This decision. Of course, will be referred to t*3 New; Zealand union for approval. "1., thj meantime it is most unlikeiy that any step will be taken by the Dunedin drivers to sho./ their disapproval of the hew award." , CONFERENCE WITH MR SAVAGE NEGOTIATIONS STILL IN PROGRESS WELLINGTON. November 4. Representatives of the drivers had a Conference with the Prime Minister (the Rt.. Hon. M. J. Savage)..to-day, which was not open to the newspapers, Mr F. C. Allerby, secretary of the New Zeajand Drivers' Federation, stated subsequently that negotiations with the Government were still in, progress. '