TRAFFIC DISLOCATED
TRAM STRIKE IN CAPE TOWN
BUS SERVICE THE CAUSE
CAPE TOWN, 6th April. A tram and bus strike dislocated traffic in Cape Town during Easter. The tram company recently absorbed an opposition bus run to Sea Point and appointed Mr. Hughes, owner of the opposition concern, manager of the Sea Point section. The men refused to join tho tram union and struck at midnight. The police guarded the garages, but tho strikers succeeded, in getting through a skylight at the hearquarters depot and removed all the essential parts as well as deflating all the tires. It was raining to-day and the full effect of the strike will not be felt until the resumption of business tomorrow. Sea Point is a popular seaside suburb of Cape Town on the seaward side of Lion's Bump_, a spur of Table Mountain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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140TRAFFIC DISLOCATED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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