AGGRIEVED TRAMWAYMEN
MASS MEETING TO-MORROW [Pee United Peess Association.] WELLINGTON, October 18. A mass meeting of Wellington trarnwaymen is to bo held in the Trades Hall on Synday, when the latest developments in connection with the new award will be discussed. Considerable dissatisfaction existed among the men when the award granting an increase of Ljd an hour to hourly workers and 5s a week to weekly workers was issued on October 18. It was claimed that the men were the lowest paid of any trarnwaymen in New Zealand.
Representations were made to the City Council for retrospective pay and an increase on the minimum rates fixed hv tho [Second' Court of Arbitration. The council granted retrospective pay as from April 27, but declined to interfere with the rates of pay. The decision of the council was discussed at a meeting of the executive of the Tramways Union to-day. The secretary (Mr W. N. Broad ley) subsequently .stated that the position would he reviewed at a mass meeting of tramwaymen on Sunday. Among the men to-day there was evidence that dissatisfaction still prevailed.
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Evening Star, Issue 23101, 29 October 1938, Page 13
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182AGGRIEVED TRAMWAYMEN Evening Star, Issue 23101, 29 October 1938, Page 13
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