THE TRAMWAY TROUBLE
CARS STILL "GO .SLOW."
"I waited half an hour" for a car," said one near suburbanite in a flutter on indignation, "thai two arrived together. I asked the conductor what' had delayed the car, and he exercised liis bucoiic wit on me by saying that he supposed there must have been a cow on the track." The above experience was not an uncommon one on Sunday or yesterday. The services to the suburbs were irregular throughout yesterday, and many women who would ordinarily havecome to town to do their shopping and visiting deemed it prudent to stay at home; fearing a longer detention in town than was desirable. Tho Traffic Manager (Mr. D. M'Gillivray) said that the cars were not running to schedule for reasons only too obvious, and tub overcrowding, particularly during the "rush hours," was still acute, not perhaps so' acute last evening owing to tho holiday, but still bad. enough to causo anxiety. . Mr. J.- Hutchison, secretary of tlin Tramway Employees' Union, said that the union knew nothing about tho "go slow" tactics referred to in tno papers. There was nothing to report -the position wis.unchanged as far as tho men wero concerned; (
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 309, 24 September 1918, Page 4
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199THE TRAMWAY TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 309, 24 September 1918, Page 4
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