NO DEVELOPMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 129, 28 November 1945, Page 8

NO DEVELOPMENTS

MR. HANSEN'S STATEMENT

There were no developments on either side today nor were any expected. The Mayor (Mr. Appleton) said that he did not wish to comment at present. The secretary of the Tramways Union (Mr. P. A. Hansen) also declined to discuss the possibilities of negotiation, for, he said, the general meeting of members of the union on Sunday last had set down a line of action which could not be departed from. Briefly, the meeting had decided that if a settlement was not arrived at by Tuesday next trams and corporation buses would cease running again on Wednesday morning, and what further action might be taken would then depend upon the decision of a second general meeting to be held that "day, December 5.

"All I can say is that we are hopeful that there will be a settlement before Tuesday," said Mr. Hansen, "I can say, too, that the union is pleased that the day is so fine and that consequently the public is not subjected to bad weather as well as to walking inconvenience. Members of the union universally regret that this action has been necessary, but they see it as the only effective way of deciding an issue— the arbitrary suspension of a provision of the award under which they are working—which is of first importance to every industrial worker in the country."