CAPE STRIKE OVER
CAPE TOWN, 9th April. The transport non-unionists decided to join the union at midnight^ thereby terminating the four days' tram and bus strike.
The public was not inconvenienced owing to tho strikers running free buses and the kindness of motorists.
A tram a.nd bus strike dislocated traffic in Cape Town during Easter. The tram company recently absorbed an opposition bus run to Sea Point, and the men refused to join the tram union and struck.
The police guarded the garages, but the strikers succeeded in getting through a skylight at the headquarters depot, and. removed all ITio pssont.ial parts as well ss deflating all thp tires.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1931, Page 9
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109CAPE STRIKE OVER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1931, Page 9
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