STRIKE ENDED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 5

STRIKE ENDED.

COUNCIL'S OFFER ACCEPTED, CAMS TO RIJN A&AIN TO-PAY. The Tramway Strike came to an end yesterday, when an agreement was signed providing, in its principal clause, that Inspector Fuller be removed to some other position In tho tramway service, "as originally requested by the Tramways Union and now desired by the officer himself." The agreement is a compromise between the conflicting proposals put forward by tho parties. Sir Joseph Ward attended the negotiations during the forenoon, and announced the settlcmont of the dispute from the Town Hall steps. The agreement, in its final form, was unanimously approved by tho council, and was ratified by a mass meeting of tramwaymen in the afternoon. A few cars were shifted from shed to shed last evening, and cheers were raised by knots of pedestrians as the familiar vehicles ran by. Track-cleaning operations were carried on all night, and, from 11 p.m. onward, cars wero being inspected and overhauled at the sheds. Every effort will be made to run full services to-day, but It is possible that some minor delays may occur in the morning.

Tho tramway strike, which lx?Knn last Wednesday, ended yesterday, when an agreement was concluded l>etwecn the City Council and its tramway employees, in pursuance of which the tramway services will bo resumed to-day. In the. morning prospects were not bright. It was understood that each party had said its Inst word in tho way of a proposed basis of settlement, and the strikers had definitely threatened, failing nn immediate settlement, to extend tho strike. Negotiations were resumed in tho forenoon. Tho City Council met Sir Joseph Ward, who had volunteered to net as intermediary, and drew up an agreement, which proved acceptable to the Strike Committee, and was signed by its representatives, and those of tho council before 1 p.m. The agreement, as it now stands, represents, a compromise. The strikers had objected to a clause stating that Inspector Fuller would be transferred "at 'his own request." The agreement now provides for tho removal of Inspector Fuller to another position, "as originally requested by the Tramways Union and now desired by tho officer himself." Tho agreement was ratified at a mass meeting of tramwaymen held in tho King's Theatre yesterday afternoon.