WAGE LOSSES RESTORED

Evening Star, Issue 21824, 13 September 1934, Page 5

WAGE LOSSES RESTORED

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY DISRATINGS {Put Uhitbd Paisa Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 13. A successful claim for the money they had lost in wages’ during their period of disrating was made against the Christchurch Tramway Board m the Magistrate’s Court to-day by the employees who were disrated by the board and subsequently reinstated at the direction of the Appeal Board. Twenty claims were set down for_ hearing, but only two, representing the two categories into which the claims fell, were heard. In both cases judgment was given for the plaintiffs with costs. All the plaintiffs were either volunteer workers or loyalists who did not cease work when the strike occurred in May, 1932. They were disrated soon after the new hoard, on which there was a majority of Labour members, took office last year. The Magistrate held that the judgment of the Appeal, Board was_ that the men must be put-back to their former status from the day they were disrated, and .not from the day or "reinstatement. He gave judgment accordingly for the plaintiffs. The amounts sued for were £2 8s 4d and ~£4 17s Bd.