TRAMWAYMEN'S WAGES
CHRISTCHURCH DISPUTE
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
.'-■-' (By Telegraph.—Press .Association.) Ur :• ;:-,CHKIBTCHUKCH, sth.'May/.;,'- ---(:.: Another' conforenco was held;this afternoon between representatives of the Tramway Board, and .'the.:. Tramway.; Employees'. Union in an endeavour to coin-, pose, the-'-difforences -between the,;t\yo : bedies. V:.: ,■ -. ".-'.-::,.V.;..\- -v*-^ C:y--:'"'■■ ,: Tho: board,, invoking," s -the'i ; ;]; special powers, conferred': by;.its; special;-Act, withdrew from the jurisdiction of /the: Arbitration. Court-;andj::aunouricecl;::; a; slight reduction !,in: ,.payj rand ,!:eonsider-; able! alteration^iiri';-wprking^conditions with!the.^object 'of; .rbdueing' : jovertimp costs,,-■ particularly; fpr;;:Sunday;;work'." Tlie" ttnicrti;:refused>to;:-a'e%ptl;tho:;new conditions?! but offered;;to';accept;a:;:lo per* !cbnt:;;cut\ in ,'wages. ;Vi6oiife'reuepß, prpvbd'.abprtiye.; i';w,y'^('~i- :^^i^jk'''-'-., .;!;.'ye.'sterday'- the. -boai;d;. at;.;its; :'meeting agreed-;-" ttfftmee't'V-the/Juiiion'rin'-^ another: conference: :to-day.V::; ; ;This^bpriferene'e' lasted': fb^itwb^houys:;arid.^a h;alf/"with; several' adjburninbhts-.to^feriable' either sido.!to 'consider;:privately;thc: proposals aiidi ebuiiter-proppsaisw':,;;;; 'f;:vv:'':,';;'';'; ;■'■'■; !,; Another'..cohferenceV is'^p!be held-in a;:'f.ewidays,''probably.':,bariy;-.n and||h&V board; has jagrepd-to'.-". postpone the operation.;off':the:^^new.-■working;con-ditions;rwhich;'wcre;to';have'^ come into force/ne^tsMphaayiJ;-1;:;'!;:■?■;:.x-:-'..;,;?;;;'/;:'. ~?:,;To-day,:the..board :'off^^ered; further con-; c'essibhS; ih;-:,the i.proposed,-; .'conditions.-, Tli'p;"union's; representatives' .7■' made :■ ,a counter-offer/-which;the; board!>istaking:tinibjjtp; cbnsider: ;! W!'j.i ■.:?,v!;;-:'V;.Lv:;': V: It-has vbeen; decided; to iiiake a ;cb'n>: bihodi.request.^'thai;:"a ' meetingf. of-•the labour: -Disputos :Cpmmittec,^-.>y3Lth;'--Mr:-P. SHally,;Conciliatio'ii-:Commissioner/ as chairman,;^which!.Svas' :to' ; havb ( ;:sat; :W-: morro^;be>'p!pstppned.j:::;y::i:i;;'if;;;! ; ::;;::t N;;:^^
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 11
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168TRAMWAYMEN'S WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 11
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