WORKERS' TICKETS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 9

WORKERS' TICKETS

TRADES COUNCIL ATTITUDE,

| The _ views of the -Tracks and. Laboim Council in regard, to workers' tramway; concessions were placed before the Minister for Public Works (Hon. W. Fraserjj yesterday by a deputation comprising.l Messrs.. M. J. Reardon (president of: the council), L.-M. A. Pwearden (secretary), and J. M'Kenzie. .■■".. a deputation waited upon tha City Council urging that the concession now given to workers travelling between? 6 and 8 a.m. be extended to includoi workers travelling up to 9 a.m. Tha City Council did not grant this request,, but proposed, instead, to institute a new"i system of all-day concessions, abolishing, the present' workers' tickets. To <J<> that it is necessary to rescind the Orderr in-Counci], which makes special -provision for workers' concessions. '-.. ......

The_ deputation this . morning ■.' stated!' that if this were agreed to there ■was * danger that, at a later date, the CHv; Gounci] for financial reasons might deem*' it necessary to curtail the all-day con-| cessions, and in j that case they weraafraid that the present workers' concessions would not be reinstated. ~. Tha new proposals, if brought into operation, would be at the expense-of .the'workers who at.present- make use cf the, 6-to-S----concession, and this seemed obviously unfair to those concerned. In the absence of definite information the deputation desired that the special provision now embodied in the Order-in-Council' should not be lost.

The Minister replied that' the n*iri proposals were receiving consideration^ and that nothing -would be done, so far aa he was concerned, to jeopardise th« interests of the workers. .