TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 50, 28 August 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

TRAMWAY MEN CANCEL REGISTRATION. NOTHING FURTHER TO EXPECT FROM ARBITRATION COURT. [BX TELEGBAPH — SPECIAt, to THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. A ballot of members of the Auckland Tramways Union has been taken on the proposal to cancel the registration of the union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The result was in favour of cancellation by 284 votes to 63. Application will now bo made on the prescribed form to have the registration of the union cancelled. A petition praying for separation from the New Zealand Tramways Federation was also submitted to the wen, and 295 signatures were re-corded in favour of the proposed step. In speaking to a Star representative, an official of the Tramways Union remarked that the men's decision vas in every way satisfactory. They had been told by the President of the Arbitration Court that they had reached high water mark as far as wages were concerned, and the men realised that they had nothing further to expect from the court. It was a significant fact that all advances in wages so far had been received by agreement with the employer and not through the court. Having cast off ths trammels of the court, they still had the sa(me privilege of meeting their employers and exhausting all conciliatory moans before resorting to sterner methods, such as a strike. One of the company's oldest employees had given it as hi-, opinion that the dismissal of Motorman Carter for a trivial offence in April last was one of the prime factors in bringing about the secession from the Arbitration Act. Twelve months ago the man who had advocated such a proposal in the union would have been scouted, but, as the voting showed, the feeling was now almost unanimous in favour of reparation. In Carter's ca*e, had the union not been tied down under the Act. the men would have left their work to get him reinstated. From now on their actions were free.