TRAMWAY DISPUTE
UNION STATEMENT CHALLENGED WORKER AFFECTED WAS VOLUNTEER (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 10. Challenging the accuracy of the statement by the union president, Mr L. J. C. Southon. the chairman of the Tramway Board, Mr Kitson, said at a special meeting of the board to-day . that Thomas Bell, over whose employment as a night watchman the strike developed in the permanent way gang yesterday, was not ordered to the job by. the board, but voluntarily wanted it. Mr Kitson said that after it had been settle! for Bell to go to Waltham, a delegation from’the union waited on him and told him. on no account to take the job. Mr Southon had said that the worker displaced by Bell would lose overtime, but it was strange that the men should take up the cudgels on behalf of a man earning big overtime when they themselves had told the board recently that they did not want overtime, said the engineer, Mr W. F). Revington.
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Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 8
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163TRAMWAY DISPUTE Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 8
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