NO TRAMS NEXT FRIDAY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 6

NO TRAMS NEXT FRIDAY

WELLINGTON UNION’S DECISION DAY OFF TO DISCUSS DISPUTE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. No trams, buses, or cable cars under the control of the Wellington City Council will be run on Friday next. The workers will take the day off to discuss new developments in their dispute with the council. Meanwhile serious inconvenience is being caused citizens by the men’s adherence to their refusal to work overtime or call backs. “DIRECT BREACH OF AWARD ” COMMENT ON PRESENT POSITION (PA.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. Referring to the effects of the 40hour week and no callbacks, at present being worked by Wellington tramwaymen, the deputy chairman of the Wellington City Council’s tramways committee (Cr. W. H. Stevens) said to-day that some of the action or the tramwaymen was a direct breach of the award recently issued. “It can be readily imagined what the reaction of authority would be if the council made a public announcement to the effect that it proposed to disregard and deliberately break the provisions of an award which was not yet two weeks old,” he commented. The present time was one for special rather than curtailed effort, Cr. Stevens added, and the department had posted a roster for Friday of this week drawn strictly in accordance with the new award. This roster allowed ' extra running time on some routes, and aimed at providing an augmented service on what had always proved to be one of the heaviest days of the year. The department hoped that the roster would be worked in its entirety, so that the, public would be provided with its essential transport.